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 a little of my extra time developing a new iphone apps site called freshapps.com.

The site uses Wordpress as its main engine and aims to be a “Digg-like” site for iphone apps. It offers a new fun way to discover the “freshest” iphone apps without having to get buried in the app store.  I wrote a pretty slick homepage algorithm that aids in doing this.  

Check it out and let me know what you think! I will be continuing with the iPhone programming tutorials after my baby is born.  This should be mid December.  I am sorry for the delay.  I will still be on answering questions you guys might have and try to get back into the forums.

Thanks for being a part of iCodeBlog. Happy iCoding!

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 delicious).  

So for those of you who already didn’t know this, here is a link to the lecture slides (with sample code).

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php

I hope you find the examples and instruction here very useful. Have a great day and happy iCoding!

No More iPhone Developer NDA

It looks like iCodeBlog is no longer illegal! Lol.  Apple has just announced that they are doing away with their “F-ing” NDA (as it has been coined).  This is great news for developers as we can now talk safely in the open about development for the iPhone  without fear.

This pesky NDA has been annoying developers since the beginning of (iPhone Development) time.  Maybe now, we will start seeing some great books being published for iPhone development.

Source: Engaget

The I’s have it! iCodeBlog Now Has A Forum (for now)

OK, so 20-someodd votes for a forum has swayed me for now.  I went ahead and put up a forum on iCodeBlog.  This will be experimental as it’s such a sad site to see failing forums with a lack of participation.  With that in mind, I will set a goal:

If the forum has at least 50 registered users by next week 08/14/08 (which shouldn’t be that hard, the site already gets over 500 unique visits per day), it stays.  If not, I will take it down.  A forum takes a lot of work to maintain and attract new users.  I am willing to put in that effort, if there is enough interest.

So go fourth and register for the forums.

Happy iCoding!

Forums on iCodeBlog

There have been some recent talks about putting some sort of forum/discussion system on iCodeBlog.  It appears that writing problems and solutions in the comments section is not sufficient.  I’m not too sure about this as I feel this might make the site a little cluttered.  However, I am completely willing to put one in place if enough people are interested and could find benefit in it.

With that in mind, I have created a poll.  Go ahead and fill it out and if enough people want a forum, I will put one on iCodeBlog.

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Let me know what you guys think…

Happy iCoding!