Mac and iPhone tomfoolery
Posted in Cocoa, Objective-C, iPhone on Jun 22nd, 2010
I just heard from Apple that Rivet for iPad has been approved and is now available. It was loads of fun to develop – the added screen size of the iPad makes for a significantly sexier UI than the iPhone client:
Posted in Cocoa, Objective-C, iPhone on Jan 29th, 2010
I just heard from my publisher and it looks like with all the excitement around Apple’s new iPad an update to my book may be in the very near future. Stay tuned…
Posted in Cocoa, Objective-C on Sep 29th, 2009
Pretty much the best online resources for new (and non-new) Cocoa/Objective-C developers are Scott Stevensons’ Cocoa Dev Central and Theocacao sites – I cannot recommend them enough. Scott has been writing tutorials for five years, and has just announced his new book: Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running which is sure to be a classic.
Posted in Cocoa, Code, Objective-C, iPhone on Sep 22nd, 2009
Part 1 in a series on how to make glossy buttons in your iPhone applications.
Posted in Cocoa, Code, Objective-C, iPhone on Sep 21st, 2009
iPhoneDevCamp has a great list of free, open source iPhone libraries and applications. Among them are ARKit: an Augmented-Reality framework and OpenFlow: a CoverFlow replacement for Apple’s private CoverFlow API.
Posted in Code, Objective-C, iPhone on Sep 21st, 2009
According to the Peachpit website, my book should be available for purchase in just over a week. I’ve made all the example code used in the book available for download here.
Posted in Cocoa, Code, Objective-C on Aug 29th, 2009
Jesper give us a summary of some of the Hidden Developer Gems in Snow Leopard. Marc Charbonneau has also found some articles on Snow Leopard for developers. Well worth a read..
Posted in Cocoa, Code, Objective-C, XCode on May 26th, 2009
Aaron Hillegass talks about the Cocoa Text System: http://vimeo.com/4793853.
Posted in Cocoa, Code, Objective-C, iPhone on Nov 13th, 2008
[Update]: The iPhone 2.2. update seems to have broken url’s in the form: maps://maps.google.com/maps?q= however in my initial testing, it seems if you use http://maps.google.com/maps?q= (i.e. using http:// instead of maps://) then things still seem to function correctly – I’ve updated the post to reflect this. ———— This week I spent some time playing around [...]
Posted in Cocoa, General, Objective-C, iPhone on Oct 10th, 2008
Register now (there’s one here in Sydney on Nov 11th). [Update]: In case you didn’t notice it, there’s more info available of the sessions etc. Hope to see you there!