iPhone Dev: Editing TableView with a DetailView & Core Data

Posted by banane on March 11th, 2010 — in technology

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 click [...]

WordPress vs. Radiant

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 content [...]

Instances and Methods: iPhone Programming

Posted by banane on March 4th, 2010 — in technology

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 = [...]

Cootie Catcher (renamed Gypsy) on an iPhone…

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 the [...]

Very Simple Animated iPhone App

Posted by banane on February 26th, 2010 — in technology

I am chugging right along on this application- and, you guessed it, a cootie catcher. The next step is to create a simple animation of the paper toy opening and closing (based on user selection).
The task: based upon a button click, animate 3 images to simulate the opening and closing of the toy. Slightly more [...]

Being Laughed At

Posted by banane on February 25th, 2010 — in language, technology

I really don’t have time to write this post but I’ve been thinking about it a lot. Lately, I’ve run into a few conversational moments where people actually laughed at me. Not with me, not about something else, but at something I had said in all seriousness. Basically: relating to my career and life [...]

Very, Very Simple iPhone App

Posted by banane on February 23rd, 2010 — in technology

I got a very simple iPhone application to work, basically a riff of a great blog post- from Cocoa is my Girlfriend, “Cocoa Touch Tutorial iPhone Application“. The application shows an image based on a button click.
1. Create a project in Xcode, “Cocoa Application”. Name it something, like “Example.”
2. Open up the ExampleAppDelegate.m, and after [...]

How Cootie Catcher is Made

Posted by banane on February 7th, 2010 — in technology

Cootie Catcher is a game girls play around the world, and is more commonly know contemporarily as Fortune Teller. I have a nostalgic love for the old name, but should probably start using the more boring modern term. Anyways. This is how it is made from a real paper game to a computer game.

First you [...]

Cootie Version 0.02beta

Posted by banane on February 7th, 2010 — in technology

There was an 0.01 but it never made it off my local system. SO … here is a working version!
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Enjoy and please offer feedback. More info on what this is about, here.
Make It Simple…
Went to a great talk on Thursday by GirlGeek Dinners, and Women2.0 on mobile applications. One message and word of advice [...]

Cootie Catcher

Posted by banane on February 4th, 2010 — in feminism, technology

At She’s Geeky last weekend, I put up a sign to propose a talk: “Cootie Catcher, Games for Girls.”
I was running late from other sessions and ran over the semi-circle of chairs and a white board in the center of the room. There I noticed 4 or so girls that had been waiting for about [...]