Head First

iOS Programming: Staying Current

May 22, 2012 // 0 Comments

Writing software is simple, but it is not easy. It is simple because the computer will do what you tell it to do. The difficulty comes from needing to make the [...]

iOS Programming

July 22, 2011 // 0 Comments

When it is too hot to be outside working in the RainyDayGarden, we crank up the AC, stay inside, and brush up on our iOS programming skills. Keeping current with the iOS [...]

Finished with Chapter 6

July 1, 2010 // 0 Comments

It has been a while since we updated our progress with the HeadFirst iPhone Development guide. We have been working through the examples from Chapter 4 through Chapter 6. [...]

Multi-monitors

June 2, 2010 // 0 Comments

We were distracted by the flurry of iPad-related stuff coming into the office and neglected our iPhone (and now iPad) programming studies. However, the Memorial Day weekend [...]

HeadFirst iPhone Development: Chapter 3

February 19, 2010 // 0 Comments

Today we signed up for a test account on Twitter so we could test out the code for sending the tweets from the InstaTwit app to Twitter.com. Everything worked like a charm [...]

HeadFirst iPhone Development: Chapter 3

February 10, 2010 // 0 Comments

Memory management was a hot topic in computer science…20 years ago. The need to understand this area was made less important because most of today’s [...]

iPad Virtual Keyboard

February 1, 2010 // 0 Comments

Apple supplied a sample for the iPhone 3.2 SDK called “Keyboard accessory.” Its goal is to demonstrate to developers how to use a keyboard accessory view. We [...]

iPad SDK FirstLook

January 29, 2010 // 0 Comments

The Apple iPad was announced with great fanfare a few days ago. While the rest of the world is debating the relative merits of the hardware, we downloaded the iPhone 3.2 [...]

HeadFirst iPhone Development: Chapter 2

January 26, 2010 // 0 Comments

We were off for a couple of days getting ready for our trip out to L.A. so we ddn’t do much with our iPhone studies. We have landed and are now sitting in a [...]

HeadFirst iPhone Development: Chapter 2

January 21, 2010 // 0 Comments

Today we are going to get the “Tweet it!” button to do something, like talk to Twitter. We are not sure how to do it, but the HeadFirst book will tell us. [...]

1 2 »