Until recently I have been, for lack of a better work, selfish in my use of Stack Overflow. I asked many questions, but but gave few answers. I was a good citizen in that I at least searched for answers before I posted a new question. If i did post an answer, It was usually [...]
I have been using Xcode’s integrated subversion SCM for several months (against the advice of several articles). Overall, it has been pretty painless. Xcode has a simple set of svn functions, but meets 90% of my needs. The biggest advantage is the integration within the IDE. Moreover, if I needed advanced functionality, I could always [...]
In case you’ve been missing out, there are 2 really great tutorial series out in the blogeshere. First, is an excellent series on cocos2d for the iPhone by Keith Peters at BIT-101: cocos2d Tutorials – TOC Second, is an in depth look at at OpenGL ES for the iPhone at Jeff LaMarche’s (of “Beginning iPhone [...]
Your ability to find, qualify, and digest development information is extremely important. Whether you are a new developer of a seasoned vet, you are always learning. You need to find information fast and effectively. When you have a question, it is easy to type it into a search engine and find an answer. Sometimes, though, you don’t know [...]
I’m currently involved in a project where I need to load some photos from the web and I need a UITableview with some thumbnails and with Photo.app navigation. Enter Three20. Three20 is a framework written by Joe Hewitt that abstracts much of the functionality of UITableViews, UITableViewCells, and networking away from the programmer. The way the components [...]
If you have any Cocoa touch or Objective-C questions, don’t just limit yourself to Apple’s Dev Forums. There is a thriving community of Cocoa developers on Stack Overflow at your disposal. You will find a variety of questions from novice to advanced. Stack Overflow has a policy of “no stupid questions”. Which means you won’t get [...]
I learned this lesson the hard a way few weeks ago… http://majicjungle.com/blog/?p=115 If you submit an update to iTunes Connect, do NOT change the available date of the update to a future time. It will remove the current version from the App Store. I did this because I wanted to make sure my update didn’t [...]
As indy developers, we need to track our finances. Most of us can’t afford to staff an accounting department, so we look for software to fill the gap. We need to track cash from sales of iPhone apps and/or iPhone contracting. I assume most of those reading my blog need both. (Side note: if you’re [...]
I need help. I need a new Mac. I’ve needed one for a while. I do all my developing on a Late 2006 white MacBook. Not a bad machine, but i’m a little hard on it. What’s worse? My logic board has been bad for a while, leaving me only 2 hours of battery life. [...]
If you have had to create a text field for a user to enter a phone number, you may have had to do this yourself. If not, this snippet may save you 15 minutes. Set the keyboard type to phone pad and add these 2 methods to the delegate of your text field. This code [...]
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