A light went on somewhere…

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 ...

XCode is hurting my patience

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 ...

Apple makes it clear…

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 ...

Re: iPhone Developer Access

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 ...

Distribution of iPhone apps

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, ...

For iPhone but not Mac?

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 ...

iPhone stuff

Friday, March 7th, 2008

At some point last night, Apple's development servers fell over and died. These servers can hold 40 000+ concurrent download streams but there were so many people downloading the new iPhone SDK that the whole server became unresponsive. After several hours of trying, I finally got a connection at 11 ...

What’s missing on iPhone

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A discussion on the NiMUG forums about the features missing on the iPhone sparked this post. Proper MMS support - to be honest I don't miss this at all. Looking back on my previous tariffs I only ever sent about 1 picture a month (though my tariff allowed for 15) and ...

That Tsunami on the Horizon: it’s the iPhone…

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

RoughlyDrafted visits the news that the iPhone is already beating the stuffing out of competitors in mobile phone operating system usage. With iPhone demonstrating considerably better statistics in terms of market share, it must be absolutely galling to some: The most recent market share numbers are particularly embarrassing for Microsoft, especially after ...

SAP to support iPhone

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Reuters has this little snippet about SAP planning to release an iPhone client despite analysts falling over themselves to tell us the iPhone isn't business-friendly: On Monday, SAP broke with precedent by saying it would introduce a version of its upcoming customer relationship management software for the iPhone before launching versions ...