I’m reading Marcus Zarra and Matt Long’s book Core Animation- it’s written on a framework/library mainly for the Mac OS, but I’m using it to learn about iPhone development. So I’m trying all of the exercises, on the iPhone. There are occasional notes regarding the difference, but here is example chapter 5, “Scale Transform,” rewritten [...]
This is like some logic interview test: a woman signs up for a technical conference. You can assume that two women will show up. But no more women will sign up if only one is on the list. Will women ever increase in attendance? (Answer: no). The Sarahs of RailsBridge were joking once that it’s [...]
So as usual, I wish someone had written this in a blog post. And now that I’ve figured it out, I’m paying it forward, so to speak. The big revelation here is: if you’re using Game Kit (GK) foundation from Apple, iPhone development 3.x SDK, then you may encounter a networking object called “PeerPickerController”. It [...]
I can’t think of a title for this post- there’s so much to say. The short version: I attended an intense 2-day hackfest for the iPad down at the eBay offices in San Jose, called iPadDevCamp (used to be iPhoneDevCamp). We were hesitant app developers, we made a tiny little dice throwing app – connecting [...]