So now that iOS 7 is finally out – it took me a little while to get used to the aesthetics and I only have nits with default button hit-area designation (there is none) & the appearance of UIPickers (really?!) – I’ve been playing with CoreLocation / CoreBluetooth and the beacon functionality. It works pretty …
Xcode 4 Cookbook at PACKT Publishing Steven F. Daniel has a book out called Xcode 4 Cookbook. It’s available in paperback and e-formats. Overview Learn how to go about developing some simple, yet powerful applications with ease using recipes and example code Teaches how to use the features of iOS 6 to integrate Facebook, Twitter, iCloud, …
I had a great time at WWDC this year, and I felt the content had a lot more meat on it this time around, especially some of the APIs for things that weren’t directly announced to the public. Lots to chew on for a while. Here are some takeaways For touting it’s green-leaning policies, San …
I hadn’t received my activation email yet, but I had an order ID number, so I figured everything was cool. I waited a few days and then without the email I started to worry a little bit. I emailed WWDC support and inquired. They had no record of the ticket being paid for, check my …
Just two minutes ago after playing with the kids out in the yard the phone (landline) rings. I checked the callerID after a few rings – not intending to answer. Usually it’s some private number or some telemarketer. I see that it’s Apple Computer on the callerID. I pick up and a nice guy tells …
I was on the last step for purchase – placed my order… and got a store error. Sold out. I’ve heard it only took 60 seconds. We are unable to process your request. I AM NOT HAPPY. I must have just missed out… I tried to purchase as quickly as possible. Okay. Now that some …
Apple has announced the dates and price for WWDC 2013 a day early – allowing developers to prepare a bit before the tickets officially go on sale. Apple Worldwide Developers Conference June 10-14, San Francisco Tickets go on sale worldwide on April 25 at 10 a.m. PDT. Last year all 5,000 tickets sold out in …
If you’ve missed out on getting tickets at face value in the past for WWDC – sign up for WWDC Blast. Sign Up for WWDC Blast You’ll get an SMS delivered to your phone as soon as Apple updates it’s WWDC page – which is assumed to be the announcement hint for the dates and …
There is a rumor floating about that Kevin Lynch (previously from Adobe) is leading a team of engineers that include several Apple engineers that worked on iPods previously. Mobile devices with touch-screens. No one knows for sure what this team is actually working on, but given the rumor of who is on the team one might be …
I posted a question to the apple developer list which received a wonderful answer. My question was basically how can I transform a string with a spelled-out number as the numeric equivalent. “Three” becomes “3”, “twelve” becomes “12”, etc. without writing an enormous string replacement method. Well… check this out… this won’t localize (I don’t …
Those of us using iPhones and who are on iOS 6.x have seen Apple’s implementation of pull to refresh. Apple has made this control available to iOS developers – starting with iOS 6.0. We’ve all seen various implementations by other developers that fit their design paradigm, but I think Apple’s implementation is quite nice and …
NSLog is a good debugging tool some of the time. Coming from AS3 I am quite used to trace statements, and even fancy AIR solutions for runtime tracing and variable lookups and tweaking. I realize that NSLog isn’t the best way to debug applications, but it certainly is handy. However those log statements can clutter …
Linking up tutorial part 1 of 2 here. Another Ray Wenderlich thing, this time written by Brandon Trebitowski. If you’re tired of displaying things in a UITableView or would like the option to present the same list materials in various different configurations (cover flow, orbiting items, whatever) then you should look into UICollectionViews sooner rather …
I’ll admit that this previous Cocoaheads Boston meeting got me thinking about Auto Layout again. I tried it in the past on my own and found it too different from springs and struts that I simply converted my ViewController to use those instead of Auto Layout a third of the way along. I just couldn’t …
Tonight I took a drive down I-90W and into Boston down to MIT building E51 for a Cocoaheads Boston meeting. I was sweating the intricacies of getting around down there since I’m not exactly familiar with the area, but once I got near it was easy enough to find and park in the Heyward lot. …
October 5 National Xcode Developers Day. Spread the word. The date is pretty obvious.
If you’re anywhere near Boston Thursday, March 14th at 7PM you may well consider stopping by M.I.T. Room 372, Building E51. Dinner afterwards at the Cambridge Brewing Company. To be honest I haven’t swung by a meeting yet only for fear of actually finding parking in that part of town right after the rush hour. However, …
My brief travels around Xcode project behaviors after it was kicking me squarely in the balls.