I have a blog, but it's mostly personal stuff that I want to catalogue. There is however, some development geekery mixed in with the family photos and pictures of food.

If you care about my moment-to-moment musings about even more random things, you can follow me on twitter.

I develop mobile software. Here are some of my published iOS apps:

Checkout Helper The Show Closer Winston-Salem Crime Map Six-Pack Equivalent Calculator

*I have also worked on a lot of mobile client projects for Skookum Digital Works
and have more than 10 published apps in the iTunes app store and Android Marketplace.

I create open source things. Here are some of my open source projects on GitHub:

  • ear-fung.us
    My personal home page; ear-fung.us
    • Language: PHP
    • Created: 3 months ago
    • Last push: 21 days ago
    • Watchers: 0 / Forks: 0
  • files_to_dir
    Takes a set of files passed as arguments and loops over them. Creates a directory with the exact same name and then moves that file into the new directory.
    • Language: Shell
    • Created: 1 month ago
    • Last push: 1 month ago
    • Watchers: 0 / Forks: 0
  • iPhone-iPad-API-Differences-Tech-Talk
    This is a tech talk given 1/20/2012 at Skookum Digital Works in Charlotte, NC about the differences between the APIs for iPhone and iPad development and how to integrate the two into a universal application. The project includes a working Xcode example of a universal application as well as the slides from the presentation.
    • Language: Objective-C
    • Created: 4 months ago
    • Last push: 3 months ago
    • Watchers: 4 / Forks: 1
  • App-Display-Page
    A wordpress plugin that will take an application ID from your iOS application and output the data associated with it. Included is an example usage file if you want to see how to use it as a standalone script. You can get the plugin from the official wordpress directory here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/app-display-page/
    • Language: PHP
    • Created: 10 months ago
    • Last push: 4 months ago
    • Watchers: 4 / Forks: 0
  • UIWebView-RemoveShadow
    iOS UIWebView category to remove the top and bottom shadow that Apple automatically adds to every webview. This is particularly useful if you want to use HTML to create a view in your application that's scrollable and want to use your own self.view.backgroundColor or similar.
    • Language: Objective-C
    • Created: 6 months ago
    • Last push: 6 months ago
    • Watchers: 5 / Forks: 1
  • NSNumber-CurrencyRound
    NSNumber+CurrencyRound category. Use this to correctly round an NSNumber to the 2nd decimal point based on standard "round half-up" methodology in order to calculate tax and percentages of currency, etc.
    • Language: Objective-C
    • Created: 6 months ago
    • Last push: 6 months ago
    • Watchers: 1 / Forks: 0
  • UIView-FormScroll
    UIView category that scrolls a view up or down. Useful for moving a view when you show a keyboard so that the view isn't covered up.
    • Language: Objective-C
    • Created: 6 months ago
    • Last push: 6 months ago
    • Watchers: 5 / Forks: 3
  • iOS-PagePeel-Example
    Example Xcode project that shows how to replicate the cool iOS page peel effect. Detailed in a blog post here: http://skookum.com/blog/ios-peeling-effect/
    • Language: Objective-C
    • Created: 11 months ago
    • Last push: 7 months ago
    • Watchers: 64 / Forks: 7
  • MRUpgradeNotification
    Checks the app store and prompts users (once) to upgrade when a new version of your app is released. Currently broken - will crash if a user does not have an active internet connection. Working on a fix soon.
    • Language: Objective-C
    • Created: 8 months ago
    • Last push: 8 months ago
    • Watchers: 3 / Forks: 1

Projects I've contributed to:

Primary Repository Languages:

Primary Languages

What's with the domain name?
Well, it was 2005 and I was trying to think of something unique and memorable that ended in ".us". I got the unique thing, but memorable? Not so sure. markrickert.com and markrickert.net are both taken, so I just leave everything here.