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Floodgates opened for iPhone development

For as active as iPhone application development community is, achieving success in iTunes has been an elusive affair for those who participate in this vertical. The two main obstacles presented to anyone who wants to create an iPhone applications are: one, finding resources/developers with the right skill set; and two, marketing the application after the application has been submitted. The bad news is Apple keeps iTunes a black box. Unless your application has been reviewed or mentioned on review sites or blogs, no one will be able to find your application outside of iTunes. This makes marketing your application relatively difficult. Here's the good news: the cost to build an iPhone application should come down substantially as it no longer requires a developer with an exclusive knowledge to a specific technology to build an application for iPhone.
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Using NSXMLParser to Pull UIImages From the Web

Introduction Hello everyone, welcome to my third screeencast. This screencast is the result of a request made in the comments of my first post. I am going to be covering many topics in this post. But the general idea of [...]
Also posted in Interface Builder, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 44 Comments

Custom UITableViewCell Using Interface Builder

Hey everyone, welcome to my first of many screencasts coming in the next few weeks. Today I am going to show you how to layout a UITableViewCell in Interface Builder and have a UITableView populate with those type of cells. [...]
Also posted in Interface Builder, Uncategorized, iPhone Articles, iPhone Programming Tutorials, iphone | Tagged , | 79 Comments

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 [...]
Also posted in iphone | 8 Comments

Floodgates opened for iPhone development

For as active as iPhone application development community is, achieving success in iTunes has been an elusive affair for those who participate in this vertical. The two main obstacles presented to anyone who wants to create an iPhone applications are: one, finding resources/developers with the right skill set; and two, marketing the application after the application has been submitted. The bad news is Apple keeps iTunes a black box. Unless your application has been reviewed or mentioned on review sites or blogs, no one will be able to find your application outside of iTunes. This makes marketing your application relatively difficult. Here's the good news: the cost to build an iPhone application should come down substantially as it no longer requires a developer with an exclusive knowledge to a specific technology to build an application for iPhone.
Also posted in Uncategorized, iPhone Articles, iphone | 11 Comments

Using NSXMLParser to Pull UIImages From the Web

Introduction Hello everyone, welcome to my third screeencast. This screencast is the result of a request made in the comments of my first post. I am going to be covering many topics in this post. But the general idea of [...]
Also posted in Interface Builder, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 44 Comments

Custom UITableViewCell Using Interface Builder

Hey everyone, welcome to my first of many screencasts coming in the next few weeks. Today I am going to show you how to layout a UITableViewCell in Interface Builder and have a UITableView populate with those type of cells. [...]
Also posted in Interface Builder, Uncategorized, iPhone Articles, iPhone Programming Tutorials, iphone | Tagged , | 79 Comments

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 [...]
Also posted in iphone | 8 Comments