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Editing xib files for rapid UI building
I just decided to look at what a .xib file contained. The “x” should have been the clue that it just might be an XML form of a .nib file. If you’re lost, I’m talking about the files that the Apple...
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New iPhone 3.0 software has been announced!
Here are a few of my favorite things; cut/paste landscape keyboard bluetooth peer-to-peer in-app purchasing (think renewing subscriptions) stereo bluetooth (A2DP) search across all (or almost all) data...
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iPhone 3.0 OS helps you login to hotspots!
I had my iPod touch that has the 3.0 OS loaded with me yesterday. I thought I’d try it on the Panera WiFi. I often go there to work with my laptop and get something to eat. Often, I meet someone there...
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iPhone ushers us back to heavy-weight apps
OK, if you can call an iPhone app, heavy weight… Just when you thought the rest of the cool apps would all run in a browser, here comes the iPhone. Before this, I thought mobile apps were pretty silly...
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directEC2 is available in the AppStore
I’m pleased to announce that the application I wrote to manage Amazon EC2 instances from an iPhone or iPod touch is now in the AppStore. This application is the first version of what will become a very...
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Simple UIViewController Management
I’m writing a navigation based application for the iPhone and need to instantiate the same UIViewController (for a screen) in more than one place. In some sample code I’ve seen, local copies are kept...
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Finding freed/deallocated instances of objects
This procedure has saved me more than once, so I need to document it throughly for everyone! There are cases where I see messages (in the debugger console) that are like this;...
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First glimpse of the Apple WWDC 2009
I’ve just signed in and from the signs, you’d think this was the iPhone Dev conference. It’s all about the apps at this conference, oh, and that one Snow Leopard banner is up there also… See for...
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WWDC09 Keynote
I got up before 6am and got into the line about 6:40. By then, I was #722. I heard the first person in line got there at 5:30pm the yesterday! That’s hard core! I might have broken the 700 barrier if I...
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How to find that sqlite file behind your CoreData
This is a quick thing. Hard to find unless you know where to look. When running a CoreData driven app, there are times when you’d like to just rest your data store and start again. Doing a schema...
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