Archive for the ‘Code’ Category
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Apple released beta5 of the iPhone SDK and quietly opened iPhone Developer registration to the public so that everyone can load their code onto their iPhones and give them a go. The updates SDK is winging it's way to me at 1495K/sec right now which means I'll be able to ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I'm finding Cocoa very hard. A few months ago, Aidan spent some time to coach me through the basics and while that went on I managed to get a lot of 'relatively' advanced things done. Going back to the code I wrote, even with the benefit of several weeks of ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
My copy of "iPhone Open Application Development" arrived in my hands today after spending a couple of weeks in the Mac-Sys office. It's a slim tome compared to the other Cocoa books I have but I understand where it fits in and it's a nice little addition to the collection. ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Daniel Jalkut, of Red Sweater software fame, writes about 'free' software:
During the chat, the entire MacBreak Weekly crew discussed the danger to the music industry that comes from younger listeners having a built-in expectation that music should be free.
This was in response to Leo Laporte claiming that Pukka, a ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
After each section of the name, there is a colon, which is actually considered part of the name itself and then a parameter. The type of the parameter is given in parentheses, followed by the parameter name.
After reading this short section, seriously I felt a light switch on in my ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
So how am I meant to deal with the light blue blobs. I can't 'edit' that text in any sensible fashion when what I really want to do is remove the space just after the * character. I end up just typing the whole thing which removes the point of ...
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
ObjectMentor takes on the idea that Business Software is Messy and Ugly
The developers responded to my message with enthusiasm. They want to do a good job (of course!) They just didn’t know they were authorized to do good work. They thought they had to make messes. But I told them ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
It's a bit rude so if you're easily shocked, go here instead.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
[[NSFileManager defaultManager] createDirectoryAtPath:_attachmentStorageDirectory withIntermediateDirectories:YES attributes:nil error:nil];
NSLog(@"Directory created!");
Anyone who knows me, knows I'm not a programmer. I speak Hello World in about 8 languages. Not very impressive. I've been able to hack a little php and javascript in the past and ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
This morning the subject in the Infurious chat swayed to the iPhone and the new possibilities with the SDK being available in February.
The SDK will enable applications to be written for both iPhone and iPod touch. This has different implications for applications wanting to take advantage of the New ...
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