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Comment on Taking the Comcast Plunge by Kitchen Towels

Kitchen Towels — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:16:00 +0000

ehternet cables are still the ones that i use for my home networking applications ;..

Comment on Filtering UITableViews: Deleting Multiple UITableViewCells with Animation by Corey

Corey — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:07:33 +0000

Depending on whether you use core data or not, I use techniques based on the following 2 posts:

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-last-word-on-nsfetchedresultscontrol.html

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/11/using-kvo-for-table-updates.html

Comment on Filtering UITableViews: Deleting Multiple UITableViewCells with Animation by PHIL P79

PHIL P79 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:43:57 +0000

Hi, did you roll any code for this? I am desperately trying to re-create the filtering of table cells using a segemented control and animate them in exactly the same that Apple do in the recents tab all/missed calls screen.
Cheers
P

Comment on My Greatest iPhone Development Resource by sviluppo applicazioni iphone

sviluppo applicazioni iphone — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:36:45 +0000

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Comment on iPhone OS 4 and Backgound Tasks or “Why We Don’t Have a Calendar API” by Ramkumar

Ramkumar — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:59:50 +0000

IPHONE OS4 : can we run NSTimer in background….if not please tell me some alternative

Comment on Getting started with Key-Value Observing by Corey

Corey — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:37:29 +0000

Actually you can google MAKVONotificationCenter, where Mike Ash has done just that. I use it myself and does make for cleaner code!

Comment on Getting started with Key-Value Observing by Terry

Terry — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:34:06 +0000

Thanks. Your explanation of KVO has made the MVC idea clearer for me. KVO should be more prominent in all the various iPhone programming books out there, if only to give people a tool to make apps more MVC complient.

…on the other hand, it does seem that Apple could have a cleaner approach to implementing KVO in Objective-C. The current approach requires a lot of if statements (if keyPath isEqual..etc) in the observeValueForKeyPath method, if several keyPaths are being observed.
A better implementation might be:
[obj addObsever:self forKeyPath:@"person.name" usingSelector:@selector(nameChanged:)]
So a separate method is fired directly when the keyPath’s value is changed.

Comment on Getting started with Key-Value Observing by Corey

Corey — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:54:48 +0000

That is a pretty typical use case. Since there are no bindings on the iPhone, however, you have to still need some “glue code” in your view controllers.

Also, you do not want the model to observe the view, that makes it less portable. Your controllers should update the model directly.

Comment on Getting started with Key-Value Observing by Terry

Terry — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:55:00 +0000

Can KVO be used as the glue between the Model and View? So the Controller, using KVO, observes changes in the Model and updates the View, and vice versa?

Comment on My Greatest iPhone Development Resource by michaelvk

michaelvk — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:33:54 +0000

I was wondering if you had any further tips on how to publicize it or how to get it reviewed? I know you mentioned to send it to blogs and stuff.

Comment on My Greatest iPhone Development Resource by Les ressources du développement pour iPhone : Damien Bihel

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Comment on Cocoa conceptual problems by Cliff Harris

Cliff Harris — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:20:58 +0000

One thing I think is strange is that many authors talk so much about memory management and such but -dealloc is never called according to my NSLogs.

I read somewhere that an iPhone app is sent a kill when you press the Home button, which does exactly that: stops it in its tracks immediately. I heard this is done to speed up the exit process. No memory management on exit is needed.

I’m wondering why I need to be obsessed with memory when I have (supposedly) 28Mb and my app will never use anywhere near that amount. I read that the 28Mb is actually shared with all the background Apple processes and that I might have much less than that. How do I find out how much memory I actually have to work with? I’ve never seen any mention of how to determine this (except for jailbroken iPhones).

Comment on iPhone code snippet: Phone number formatter by Omar

Omar — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:41:02 +0000

This works like a champ.

So to complete the help for someone who is newbie:

Where you see:
[localText fullRange]
i.e the use of “fullRange”,
Just replace that with:
NSMakeRange(0,[cname length])
Assuming cname is delcared like this below:
NSMutableString *cname = [NSMutableString stringWithString:str];

Hope that additional info make save you an additional 1 minute

Comment on iPhone OS 4 and Backgound Tasks or “Why We Don’t Have a Calendar API” by Jimbob

Jimbob — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:16:04 +0000

Apps running in the background don’t cause battery problems if they’re in suspended animation, just waiting to be woken by a timer. They’ll cause memory problems, though, since the iPhone doesn’t have paging (yet).

Local push notifications would be very good for a bunch of apps that implement some sort of calendar function. I can imagine both local and network push notifications to be used to wake up apps and let them execute code, but that would likely be abused with all kinds of polling anti-patterns, negating any improvements to battery life.

The solution depends on what you want to do. If you want faster app switching, the best solution is to implement paging and suspend running apps to disk. If you want background activity (such as location tracking or music scrobbling) apps should be allowed to spawn small background daemons with severely limited memory and no GUI.

Comment on iPhone OS 4 and Backgound Tasks or “Why We Don’t Have a Calendar API” by Nathan de Vries

Nathan de Vries — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:26:03 +0000

Overloading the user-facing calendar as a system-level scheduler seems unlikely given that launchd does exactly what you’re trying to do. Something along the lines of SMJobBless() in the ServiceManagement framework is more likely to be exposed.

Comment on iPhone OS 4 and Backgound Tasks or “Why We Don’t Have a Calendar API” by Corey

Corey — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:34:48 +0000

@Jimbob My guess is probably off here, at least technology wise. I don’t think that Apple would allow multiple apps to run as background processes. That would be a huge battery drain. Thats it woud be nice to have the Calendar App (or some other process) handle all “local push notifications”. Which is similar to how the Push Notifications work now, minus the ability to execute code.

@mare I actually doubt they would allow executing of arbitrary code as well. But if they wanted a simple solution that gives developers more flexibility without sacrificing (too much) battery life, they do have the pieces in place. There is some chatter about “Calendar Syncing”, I have to assume that the Calendar API is coming in the next major OS release.

Comment on iPhone OS 4 and Backgound Tasks or “Why We Don’t Have a Calendar API” by mare

mare — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:53:42 +0000

I agree this would be cool. But I’m sure if Apple will enable such functionality it will be a bit more limited. I think they’ll never allow you to send some code to be executed by another process. If your code crashes (because it is just wrong/malformed or because of a fringe case that didn’t show up in debug/review) it’ll crash an Apple process. Apple doesn’t like that, even though that process will be re-spawned.

But they might very well at some point in the future (soon?!) provide a limited API where you can show a message at a certain time/date.

Comment on iPhone OS 4 and Backgound Tasks or “Why We Don’t Have a Calendar API” by Jimbob

Jimbob — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:31:50 +0000

Two things: Blocks can’t be passed to another address space and don’t survive termination of the process. If the process is kept alive, NSTimer can be used for this, anyway. No reason to mess with exposed calendar entries.

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Comment on Open Source iPhone: Resources by harry

harry — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:39:00 +0000

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Comment on Obscure iPhone: viewDidLoad and loadNibNamed by Corey

Corey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:39:50 +0000

Interesting.

As far as I know, loadNibNamed does not create the view controller, the view controller is already instantiated. The view controller being the top level object of the nib is simply a proxy (file’s owner).
It simply unarchives the nib, places those objects in memory, and connects the outlets.

You can of course instantiate a second view controller within a nib, if it is not the top level object. I wonder if this is the way you are accomplishing this?

In that case, I would fully expect viewDidLoad to be called.

In my case, I am loading the nib within the init method of top level view controller. This may in fact be the cause of the problem.

Comment on Obscure iPhone: viewDidLoad and loadNibNamed by Noel@snappytouch.com

Noel@snappytouch.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:51:32 +0000

I load nibs like that all the time, and viewDidLoad will get called… whenever the view is loaded. What’s happening is that loadNibNamed just creates the view controller, but the main view won’t be loaded until you access it.

So for example, calling loadNibNamed followed by adding its view to some hierarchy will cause the view to be loaded and viewDidLoad to be called.

But yes, you have to watch out for that because otherwise it’s possible to do operations on the view controller before the viewDidLoad function is called and can lead to unexpected results (I’ve had my share of bugs because of that early on).

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Florian — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:11:10 +0000

Wow, never heard about that tool. I love it

Comment on Open Source iPhone – JSON Data by Corey

Corey — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:52:09 +0000

@Dave
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
…probably should have given a shout out to my IndyHall peeps in the first place.

Comment on Open Source iPhone – JSON Data by Dave Martorana

Dave Martorana — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:24:35 +0000

Check out JSONKit – a freebie to come out of IndyHall Labs. We use it in all of the software we produce – and then some

http://github.com/IndyHallLabs/jsonkit/tree/master

Comment on Open Source iPhone – JSON Data by Luke Redpath

Luke Redpath — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:51:03 +0000

I have used json-framework before but switched over to TouchJSON because I thought it was easier to use, funnily enough. At least, its a lot easier to get it into your project quickly as you just need to copy the source over (three classes).

Like you, I don’t know which one is the best, at least from a purely technical/performance point of view.

Comment on Open Source iPhone – JSON Data by Corey

Corey — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:07:27 +0000

@Luke
Yeah TouchJSON is another similar library. There are several discussions strewn about the intertubes asking which one is better. I believe the usual comparison is that TouchJSON is more mature/stable and json-framework is simpler to use. But to be honest, I haven’t used TouchJSON, so I don’t know for sure.

Comment on Open Source iPhone – JSON Data by Luke Redpath

Luke Redpath — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:58:32 +0000

I don’t know how they really compare, but another good JSON library for the iPhone is TouchJSON: http://code.google.com/p/touchcode/wiki/TouchJSONHowTo

Comment on Getting Bored Vs. Getting Done by Billy Gray

Billy Gray — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:06:21 +0000

Right on, dude!

Oh — thanks for the NSDate plug, glad to see that other folks are finding it useful! If there’s anything that sucks about it, feel free to sound off.

Comment on Getting Bored Vs. Getting Done by Corey

Corey — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:21:38 +0000

@Billy

Nice post.

Although I code alone, I have increasingly been working with other independents, specifically graphic designers and marketers. It has really helped motivate me to work harder when my own motivation is lacking.

In the end, pushing out a product comes down to you finding motivation from wherever you can. Working within a focused group can be infectious.

Comment on Getting Bored Vs. Getting Done by Billy Gray

Billy Gray — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:09:44 +0000

My response is a little long-winded, so I put up a whole blog post:

http://www.zetetic.net/blog/2009/07/23/staying-motivated-and-creative/

Hooray, conversations! In short: co-working is the answer, for me.

Cheers,
Billy

Comment on Private Properties by Corey

Corey — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:55:39 +0000

@Chris Yes you can, but using KVO seems even easier to me than implementing the setter. This was one of the reasons that properties were made, to stop us coders from writing error prone getters and setters. You can always choose the method that works best. I use KVO since it protects me from myself.

Comment on Private Properties by Corey

Corey — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:52:53 +0000

@Matt I like the brackets aesthetically, it is just when you forget one that bothers me. I did install Bracket Matcher which helps, but you still lose some code sense. @Arne I didn't use Objective-C too much before 2.0, so dot syntax doesn't really look out of place to me. In fact all of Objective-C was very "alien" to me at first. As with anything, I think that over time you get used to it.

Comment on Private Properties by Chris Ryland

Chris Ryland — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:48:12 +0000

“Another issue is w hen you need to react to state changes of an ivar. This can be mitigated using KVO.”

Can’t you simply implement the setter method and handle it right when it changes?

Comment on Private Properties by Arne

Arne — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:24:31 +0000

Personally, I really like the dot-syntax for properties. The convenience of visually separating properties from method-calls outweighs the slightly alien look of the dot-syntax in obj-c 2.0

Comment on Private Properties by MattjDrake

MattjDrake — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:11:08 +0000

I generally stick to dot notation as much as possible since I find using brackets clumsy. That is mostly because of what I was used to in other programming languages I guess.

Comment on Getting Bored Vs. Getting Done by Corey

Corey — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:43:28 +0000

@robert
That’s pretty interesting advice. It imagine walking away in the middle of inspiration would be hard, but I could see the benefits.

Comment on Getting Bored Vs. Getting Done by Robert

Robert — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:10:02 +0000

Set a time limit to work on your current task. Something like 40 minutes, and stick to it. At the end of the alloted time, stop. Go do something else for 15 or 20 minutes. Even if you’re “on a roll”, even if you’re not done. Then set a time on which you *have* to start the task again. Maybe its 15 minutes later, or maybe it’s the next day. Start the task even if you don’t feel like it.

This was counter to my instincts which would keep me working well past the end of the day, even into the middle of the night. And then once I had worked for a long time and maybe not finished the task to my satisfaction, I was reluctant to get back to it. And I wouldn’t start working on it until I felt “inspired”. Which could mean never.

But, after feeling burned out I looked around for advice, and found this little nugget in an advice article for PhD’s writing their dissertation. The reason it works for me is that if I quit in the middle of the task, I’m more eager to come back to it later. It prevents you from getting that tunnel vision that may lead you down the wrong path. It also gives me some distance, which often helps me figure solutions. And, while you’re away from your task you’re giving your brain the chance to work on the problem while you’re doing something else. This often happened to me when I’d have a hard problem in my physics class. I’d struggle with it all day and just couldn’t figure it out. I’d go to sleep and then I’d wake up a few hours later with the answer in my head.

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Comment on Getting Bored Vs. Getting Done by Corey

Corey — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:08:41 +0000

Good point, breaks are good! I probably should have mentioned that. Nothing quite helps like getting away.

Comment on Getting Bored Vs. Getting Done by pTracker

pTracker — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:14:50 +0000

Well, instead of taking a break to work on another project, you can:
Go outside, for multiple days is necessary.
Go to the beach.
Go visit someone.
Go ride your bike for an entire day (pedal-powered or gas powered, either will work).
Or whatever.

This is better than starting a new project, because there’s no risk of abandoning your current one. And when you come back, you’ll be full of fresh ideas for your project – which gets you to Getting Done.

Although, I liked the suggestion to build out a new feature in a blank project. That’s taking a “break” and making progress at the same time!

Comment on Getting Bored Vs. Getting Done by iPhoneKicks.com

iPhoneKicks.com — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:24:17 +0000

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Comment on My Greatest iPhone Development Resource by Corey

Corey — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:11:20 +0000

@Fuj With 50,000+ apps there is no winning strategy anymore. It is no longer the wild west, it is just another place to sell software. The difference is that people can be enticed to make a purchase anytime, anywhere.

Good luck on your app, I hope you guys do well.

As far as further advice, I am not a “marketing guru” by a long shot. In fact, for my next in house app, I have a marketing partner to handle those details. The truth is that I ma just a developer. I can try to spread my self out and just be “ok” at everything or I can focus on what I am good at and have other experts help me with the rest.

You may well be in the same position. It sounds like you have a team from your pronoun usage. If you are all developers, I suggest finding someone who can handle marketing for you. Make them a part of your team.

Marketing is hard work. Cold calling, emails, campaigning… It IS a full time job. To be done right, someone needs to be committed to it full time.

Also, I’d love to take a look at your app. I’ll send you an email with my email address.

Comment on My Greatest iPhone Development Resource by Fuj

Fuj — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:30:53 +0000

Hi Corey, thanks for answering my questions. Even though you showed with your other post that you make most of the revenue in the first few weeks and are probably OK with going with a larger price, we decided to go with $0.99 instead of a larger price to try to get high on the rankings. We thought that we’d make back what we lost by being ranked high and getting lots of views. Who knows though

Anyways, we’ve submitted it and while we’re waiting for it to go on sale, I was wondering if you had any further tips on how to publicize it or how to get it reviewed? I know you mentioned to send it to blogs and stuff, but do you know any that are very receptive to this? also, i would like to hear your opinion or suggestions so i can send you a code if you’d like.

thanks for the help!
Fuj

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Comment on Filtering UITableViews: Deleting Multiple UITableViewCells with Animation by iPhoneKicks.com

iPhoneKicks.com — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:27:44 +0000

Filtering UITableViews…

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Comment on Testing, Testing… by ansemond

ansemond — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:48:43 +0000

That’s a great relief! Thanks a lot!

Comment on Testing, Testing… by Corey

Corey — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:38:22 +0000

Yes it worked fine, I think the SO post was answered correctly. I called Apple just to make sure before I went through with it. Everything worked out fine.

Comment on Getting started with Key-Value Observing by Corey

Corey — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:37:21 +0000

i got it from @dtm3dd. Check his blog post or his past tweets, I think it was called seaside or something similar.

Comment on Getting started with Key-Value Observing by Uprise78

Uprise78 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:32:41 +0000

Totally off topic…where did you get the Xcode theme and would you mind sharing it?

Comment on Testing, Testing… by ansemond

ansemond — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:18:53 +0000

You asked on Stack Overflow, whether you could create a new distribution certificate if you lost the old one and whether that would break the updating process.

I’m suffering the same predicament after Apple wiped my dev drive when repairing my computer and my backup drive broke soon after. Unfortunately I didn’t clone my certificates to github.

My question: can you update apps with the new distribution certificate? Did it work for you?

Thanks!

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Comment on My Greatest iPhone Development Resource by Noah

Noah — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:21:29 +0000

If your looking for a simple way to get a iPhone application for your blog or business I found Rhino Apps really useful. http://www.RhinoApps.com. They take your RSS feed and create an iPhone application around it. You design it with your own custom colors and logos. Worth taking a look at.

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Comment on Does your app have a chance to make it in the App Store Top 100? by Corey

Corey — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:06:19 +0000

@cartwa
That is the question!
I’d like to think it was because we made a great app, or at least an interesting one. The best advice I can give is to build something useful and/or unique and build it well.

Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts.

Comment on I found Three20 and my lost weekend by Corey

Corey — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:04:23 +0000

@josh
I actually never got it to work with local photos. If you go to the google group page however, there is a nice sample project where someone implemented a photosource. (Even though it still works over the network)
http://groups.google.com/group/three20/web

I would imagine you only need to give the photo table a file url as a string. There may be a setting in there to alert 320 that it is a local url as file urls are initialized with a different method than remote urls (see NSURL class docs). I know that 320 IS supposed to handle both local and remote data.

I would recommend posting this question on stackoverflow. If you haven’t already.

Hope this helps.

Comment on Does your app have a chance to make it in the App Store Top 100? by cartwa

cartwa — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:03:04 +0000

How did you get listed on new and noteworthy?

Comment on I found Three20 and my lost weekend by Josh

Josh — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:40:11 +0000

How did you get the photo datasource to look at your local photos? I am trying to figure out how to point my datasource to images in my project. Any code or advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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Comment on Cocoa conceptual problems by Corey

Corey — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:50:45 +0000

@Matt
I feel the same way when in particular when it comes to Core Graphics and Core Animation. I just copy ad paste when it comes to CG and I figure it as I have all the inevitable problems. With Core Animation, I have the great Bill Dudney book. Even still, it is mainly Mac focused and feels a bit over me at times. Transactions, actions and groups cause my brain tumor to grow significantly each time I think about them.

@candy
The LaMarche book is good, but to be honest I probably bought it to late. I got much of my first coding done by following the iCodeBlog tutorials. It was one of the blogs before the fall of the Great NDA. For me the best way was going through tutorials and then just changing everything I could and keeping it working. The next thing I did was just pick a project and said “I will learn everything I need to build and ship this app”. That is how we built Compounds.

Comment on Cocoa conceptual problems by candy

candy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:54:15 +0000

About 60% of the way thru the LaMarche book and 30% thru Kochan, I feel like I’m in cave partially lit by my candle light. The trouble is that when I move to a new area, wherever I have just been goes dark again. I’m not sure I’ll ever see the whole cave.

Comment on Cocoa conceptual problems by MattjDrake

MattjDrake — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:25:23 +0000

Great post – after a year learning Cocoa my head is still spinning. Sometimes I still wonder whether I truly understand how to program on the iPhone or I have just started following a set of rules that allow we to more or less cope with the oddness of the platform. I have an almost superstitious approach to certain likes (like how I handle memory). It feels a lot more like OCD than programming -

“Don’t step on the crack in the sidewalk or your will over-release your object”

Or something like that.

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Comment on Cocoa conceptual problems by iPhoneKicks.com

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Comment on Stack Overflow Addiction by Corey

Corey — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:05:18 +0000

@john It was difficult for me at first, but now it is pretty routine. The hard part is just getting in there and just doing it (as with most things in life).
I started on mostly easy questions, which probably helped. Now, I usually look for interesting questions that maybe I can “figure out”.

Comment on Stack Overflow Addiction by John Biesnecker

John Biesnecker — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:34:15 +0000

“I was reluctant to answer questions because of my (perceived) lack of knowledge.”

That’s pretty much the stage at which I am now. It’s that whole “don’t want to answer wrong and look stupid in front of the class” instinct. I need to get over it an become a better member of the community.

Comment on Moving version control out of Xcode and into Cornerstone by Corey

Corey — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:02:49 +0000

@Andy Thanks! I really like it, too. Apps like this continue to make the case for subversion, at least for small development teams. It actually makes sense having this part of the workflow out of the IDE. Like you said, it is definitely faster.

Comment on Moving version control out of Xcode and into Cornerstone by Andy Peters

Andy Peters — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:13:42 +0000

I’m a huge fan of Cornerstone. Love the fact that it has the built in libraries and no need for the binaries. I think it makes it faster (if anything). XCode/SVN was just too slow and clunky, but free… so good enough for most.

Nice article!

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iPhoneKicks.com — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:13:15 +0000

Moving version control out of Xcode and into Cornerstone …

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Game Tutorials …

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Comment on I found Three20 and my lost weekend by Corey

Corey — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:46:48 +0000

@Matt
Yeah. it is a tough decision. It depends where you want to spend your time and if you can live with Three20′s set of customizations available to you “off-the-shelf”. If so, then I don’t think it’s a terrible option.

I really didn’t want to implement a photo browser and thumb photo picker, hence my interest. If I hadn’t been required to change the appearance of the thumb photo picker, it would have been cake.

I was hesitant at first, but then I was just to invested to turn back. So now I know my way around and won’t be too worried about using it in the future.

Comment on I found Three20 and my lost weekend by Matt Brooke-Smith

Matt Brooke-Smith — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:08:32 +0000

We are looking into Three20. There are a number of excellent components (ie the tab bars), but also a huge amount of complexity to understand in order to do anything useful, as you say.

Just starting to get into using the Styles. Its great to be able to create glossy buttons etc with a few lines of code.

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iphone architect — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:48:19 +0000

thanks for the big list of resources
we have launced a forum for iphone developers
http://www.iphonearch.com

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Corey — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:15:52 +0000

@Chris Thanks, I checked out your blog and you have quite a bit of good iPhone web design content. Keep up the good work!

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Corey — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:09:16 +0000

@Johann No problem!

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Johann Dowa — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:53:01 +0000

Wow great list! Whole lot to add here into my feed list. Thankyou.

Comment on Does your app have a chance to make it in the App Store Top 100? by Mark Homer

Mark Homer — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:10:03 +0000

Corey,

Great post. Your comment about following simple (but not easy, right?) steps will give you more of a marketing strategy than 80% of apps is right on!

We have seen many developers who put an app in the store and then complain about not getting any downloads. We have done some research and found that word of mouth is one of the top reasons people download an application. Being the top in your category and in the top 100 helps, but your app needs to be good enough that your customer is going to recommend it to a friend. So developers should build that ‘strategy’ thinking into their apps up front.

We help developers market their applications so they can focus on the developing great apps. We have also begun to introduce a slightly different model in ‘licensing’ applications to corporate brands that want to jump on the “app-vertising” bandwagon. If anyone is interested we can be contacted from our website.

Regards,

Mark

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Chris — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:12:18 +0000

Great list! I’ll be checking these out for sure…

I just started a little resource blog myself for iPhone web design/development. Hope you find it somewhat useful: http://iphoneized.com

Cheers,

Chris

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iPhoneKicks.com — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:14:50 +0000

My Greatest iPhone Development Resource …

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Comment on Uh Oh, A Tough App Store Mistake by Corey

Corey — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:08:10 +0000

@Drew yes, it was a little disconcerting seeing the drop-off in sales. The funny thing was, I had the story I linked to above open in my browser as I was doing this to myself. If I just would have read it, all would have been well

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Drewjaja — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:36:28 +0000

I did the same thing to my app touch atlas! I realized the next day when I noticed my sales dropped more than 50%. oh well great lesson learnt

Comment on I found Three20 and my lost weekend by Corey

Corey — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:28:01 +0000

@Johann Definitely. A lot of work has gone into making common tasks rather trivial.

Comment on App Store sales figures for our iPhone app, Compounds by Corey

Corey — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:27:03 +0000

@vince Thanks! Those are total sales. Of note, we have recently come back to earth. Probably at least worth a blog post…

Comment on I found Three20 and my lost weekend by Johann Dowa

Johann Dowa — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:38:21 +0000

That is a very useful set of tools.

Comment on App Store sales figures for our iPhone app, Compounds by Vince

Vince — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:50:09 +0000

Are these numbers for just the US of total sales in every country. Great job by the way!!!

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I found Three20 and my lost weekend…

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Comment on Uh Oh, A Tough App Store Mistake by Corey

Corey — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:51:14 +0000

@Steve I know it hurts

Comment on Uh Oh, A Tough App Store Mistake by Steve Breen

Steve Breen — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:58:39 +0000

I, um, have *never* done *that* before!

*blush*

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Comment on Cash Rules Everything Around Me… Tracking My iPhone Benjamins by Corey

Corey — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:24:46 +0000

@NSMacMan
I was thinking about that, but I was assuming most accountants could import from CSV or a spreadsheet with little trouble.
Also, I thought I read there were still compatibility issues with QB for Mac and QB for Windows…

Comment on Cash Rules Everything Around Me… Tracking My iPhone Benjamins by NCMacMan

NCMacMan — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:16:57 +0000

You may think quickbooks is an overkill, but it really depends on your company set up. Even if you have an LLC or are set up as a Corp/Subcorp, you should consider getting a more robust accounting software suite. Most accountants will require an import from Peachtree or Quickbooks. It would really reduce your CPA costs if you use one — especially if you keep good records.

Just my advice — it might not help the solo developer, but it is better to be safe than to be on the wrong side of the IRS audit.

Comment on Cash Rules Everything Around Me… Tracking My iPhone Benjamins by Corey

Corey — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:31:28 +0000

I honestly haven’t used Billable, just Profit Train (Billable 2.0). I really like Profit Train though. I know the developer who is a Philly local, and he’s really focused on keeping the interface simple and mac-like. I think the app’s really great because of it and has almost no learning curve.

Comment on Cash Rules Everything Around Me… Tracking My iPhone Benjamins by Mike Cohen

Mike Cohen — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:10:50 +0000

I like Billable for invoicing.