In the simple example explained in this tutorial, and others, there are a few key points that I wish I’d seen in a blog somewhere, ha. It’s best to deal with literals, so I am recreating the example quickly, with notes on what aspects to check. If you have a complex or already created app, [...]
I really loved the Ada story- I heard about it in detail from How Stuff Work’s “What You Missed in History Class.” That night I ended up rehashing almost the entire story to my niece and nephew and their parents. Not just that I’m kind of obsessed with British peerage (oddly a generation or two [...]
As usual, I wish this was written somewhere while I was trying to figure it out. So now that I have, here I write it for posterity (and others struggling with the same issue!). Pretend you have a UITableView list of array items or core data values. You want the user to be able to [...]
Posted by banane on March 8th, 2010 — in technology
I’ve had this conversation a few times, with a friend setting up a content management system for a school, with Radiant folks regarding a what a full blogging suite looks like, and on the Ruby-SF list regarding good Ruby CMS systems. At this point I could go on a boring bit about the differences between [...]
My skill level jumped up by leaps and bounds through a few guided reviews of my code with a friend. Here’s what I learned, for posterity and retaining my own lesson, ha. Objective-C has C-styled instance variable initialization and assignment It may be confusing, but I kept seeing code examples that had this: NSArray *imageArray [...]
Posted by banane on March 2nd, 2010 — in technology
So I’ve reached a milestone, I have the app working on my iPhone. Yay! A movie to prove it’s true (sadly, I can’t demo it on this web page). I’m going to write a post on the next level of Objective-C/Cocoa lessons I learned in the last week, but for now just rejoicing in getting [...]