I hope that many of you have watched the iPhone Development series over at Tekpub by yours truly. To wrap up the series, Rob and I wanted to show you exactly what is required to get an ad-hoc build out for beta testers, how to get a certificate from Apple in order to code-sign your application, and finally...
iPhone Apps Don't Live in a Vacuum
Thursday, June 03 2010
Most of the iPhone apps that I work on don't exist in a vacuum. That is, they require data that exists somewhere on the server. Grabbing data from the server is seemingly simple, but you have to dig deeper if you want a truly seamless experience for the user. Consider the naive approach: App Starts up...
My Xcode Theme
Monday, May 03 2010
If you haven’t heard, I’ve been contributing videos to Tekpub about iPhone Development . A few folks have asked me what theme I use for Xcode. I created a modified dark theme loosely based on Ryan Bates ’ excellent Railscasts theme for Textmate . Here is a screenshot of the theme: I’m calling this...
Handy Categories on NSString
Tuesday, April 20 2010
In Objective-C there is a great feature called Categories. To .NET folk, this closely resembles extension methods, and it is a great way to achieve utility code re-use and in general heighten the level of the code that you're working with. It's also a great way to turn a very hairy method and section...
ALT.NET Houston Open Spaces is Only 2 Weeks Away!
Thursday, April 15 2010
We’re getting very close to the 2nd ALT.NET Open Spaces Conference in Houston. This year we’re doing it a tad differently, and we’re holding 2 half-day workshops on Friday, April 30th. Deep Dive into Windows Azure Scott Densmore Scott (who recently re-joined Microsoft) will go from...
Is UITableViewController Useless?
Wednesday, March 31 2010
In my experience writing iPhone apps, I’ve come to the conclusion that UITableViewController is useless. Since many of my readers aren’t iPhone developers, I’ll quickly describe what the UITableViewController is: Almost all of the iPhone apps on your phone utilize some sort of table. The table...
.NET Rocks Road Show!
Wednesday, March 31 2010
Carl and Richard are at it again. I went to the Houston HDNUG meeting back in 2005 When they did the Visual Studio 2005 Road Show. It was great fun, they had some cool prizes, and good presentations. Well they’re doing it again ! They will be in Houston at the Microsoft Office on April...
Geek Dinner with Glenn Block!
Monday, March 29 2010
We're holding our April ALT.NET Geek Dinner a little early because we have a special guest! Glenn Block (of MEF & Code Better fame) will be here from Redmond. Come, eat pizza, drink beer, and geek out with some other local developers. When? Wednesday, March 31st - 6:00pm - 8:30pm update...
Boy Howdy, I was on Deep Fried Bytes!
Monday, March 22 2010
A while back, Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff invited Jeffrey , Jimmy and myself to be guests on the Deep Fried Bytes podcast. We had a great conversation about our book , ASP.NET MVC, why someone would choose it, what to look forward to in ASP.NET MVC 2 (remember this was recorded a while ago). Listen...
ALT.NET Houston Open Spaces Conference
Thursday, March 18 2010
It’s that time of year again! Last year we held our first open spaces conference and I was quite pleased with the results. We had 120 people show up and it was really rewarding to see the entire thing take shape. You can see the photos from last year here . I proposed this question...
