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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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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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
'Perry' wrote (on the RogueAmoeba blog post "Code Signing and You"):
"...the case for Code Signing on a Mac - in the service of its administrator/owner - is very compelling. In a sense, the Mac is living on borrowed time - viruses and worms and other nasty bit-critters will surely come ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
In an odd combination of non-day-job-work and play, I found this:
"I started working with the audio toolbox on the iPhone today. This morning, I added sounds to the little dice rolling application I've been writing. I recorded a total of fifteen sounds, five of a single die being rolled, five ...
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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, March 19th, 2008
For the hard of thinking....
According to iLounge, Apple today sent out a mass e-mail with helpful development links and a more detailed message regarding their status.
“We have many more requests than we can serve during this initial beta period,” explains the follow-up e-mail, “so we must limit the Program at ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
I love being right. :)
Like I was here
Apple says (emphasis mine)
Dear Registered iPhone Developer,
Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. We have received your enrollment request. As this time, the iPhone Developer Program is available to a limited number of developers and we plan to expand during ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
So, there's three categories of applications which can be installed onto the iPhone without Jailbreak.
Payfer Apps - you write your application, sign it, give it to Apple and they host it on the App Store and you get 70% of all proceeds.
Free Apps - you write the application, sign it, ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
For years it's been a pain getting Macs to talk to Exchange servers because more often than not the Exchange servers are managed by some pencilneck IT guy with a pressed shirt and a lifetime subscription to "Ballmer - Candid Photos of Everyone's Favourite Microsoft Exec". As a result ...
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