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Monthly Archives: November 2008

The “Digg” of iPhone Apps – Checkout My New Site

It has been a while since my last tutorial.  For that I am sorry.  My wife is 9 months pregnant and about ready to pop.  This being the case, she takes up most of my free time... I have spent [...]
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A Great iPhone Coding Resource

I'm sure many of you are aware that Stanford is offering an iPhone development class this semester.   On my journeys through the interwebs, I discovered a link to the site where the lectures for this class were posted (via [...]
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Finding Substrings in Objective-C

It's times like this, that I miss ruby.I'm checking a url to see if it has a substring. It would be so easy if this was ruby:absolute_url.match(/my regex/).any?In Objective C, you have to use rangeOfString which returns a range. If [...]
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iPhone Programming Tutorial – Intro to SOAP Web Services

This tutorial was contributed by Dave (AKA Clarke76) on the Forums. WebSite: http://viium.com -Main project on site is eDuo. A .Net app that connects to OWA Exchange and forwards to IMAP account. Free program for those who can't use Active [...]
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iPhone: applicationDidFinishLaunching & handleOpenUrl

Problem:You use the applicationDidFinishLaunching method to kick off your application. This event fires automatically on your delegate whenever your app launches.If your app launches from a special url schema (tel://, http://, mailto://), then another event is fired:handleOpenUrlAs you might have [...]
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Xcode SDK / iPhone OS Idiosyncracies

The Problem:Recently, after upgrading an iPhone to the current iPhone development firmware Xcode was unable to detect the device. I first noticed this when trying to build directly to the device:"no provisioned iphone os device connected". Needless to say, the [...]
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iPhone building/testing for the device

Building for the simulator is easy. Building for the device, however, can be troublesome, especially when using version control to share your code with other developers.Often times, the project.pbxproj file ends up with settings that disable Xcode from building your [...]
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