I’ve had a notion for some time that the price wars on the app store may be detrimental to the community. I know I’m not alone in this feeling, and have found others online who would agree. Finding like-minded developers isn’t my goal. I’m wondering when, or if, the App Store will begin to resemble …
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Well on my way to becoming comfortable with Objective-C and Cocoa, I came across the need to create two versions of an app I was working on – one a “Lite,” and the other a full version. Branch merging scares me Like any good developer, I use source control management to keep tabs on my …
It’s Thanksgiving Day weekend – one of my favorite of the year – because it gives me the chance for some nice, quiet R&D time without the pressure of clients or projects asking to get things done. This week I finally made it through enough of my Objective-C/Cocoa/iPhone books that reading further felt like I …
[I started this post quite a while ago and forgot about it. Here it is finished. Hopefully you find something useful here] I’ve had a few projects already where I could really use some PEAR libraries but not sufficient enough access to the server so I could install them in the system-wide PEAR include directory. …
Here’s a little commentary over at CakeBaker on people apologizing for being a newbie. On mailing lists or in private mails I sometimes read statements like “I am sorry, but I am a newbie” or “Sorry for this newbie question”. And I always wonder why do those people apologize for not being proficient? I think …
Getting close to finishing up an app for a client in the coming weeks, my business partner and I decided it would be a good idea to include some analytics code so we could track how people are using our application. We ended up using Pinch Media’s Analytics to do our tracking. It came down …
I recently ran across some major performance problems with a jQTouch app running in PhoneGap. Some of the symptoms included long pauses on touch events, non-responsiveness, and laggy transitions. Brian LeRoux (Nitobi/PhoneGap), Jesse McFayden (Nitobi/PhoneGap), and David Kaneda (jQTouch) were the stars looking into this issue. Ends up Jesse found where the Accelerometer was taking …
Here’s a quick note for the frustrated: When setting the readonly parameter on a form element via javascript, make sure you use a capital “O” as follows: elem = document.getElementById(‘myInputElement’); elem.readOnly = true; Why it took me so long to find that out, I have no idea why. Most forums threads by others seem to …
I was looking for a simple solution to backup my newly constructed server to an off-site location in case something were to happen. I don’t mean I lost a file… more like catastrophic hardware failure, fire, water damage, physical damage, and even theft!. Local backups really are best, and I don’t plan on abandoning them …
I recently performed a major upgrade on my file server this week. It was a lot harder than it should have been, but that’s only because my Linux Foo can only go this far. Two to three re-installs later on the new hardware it was getting old, so I told the Fedora installer to just …
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