Objective C 2.0: An Intro – Part 2

June 29th, 2009 Posted by: - posted under:Tutorials - 30 Comments

Introduction
Hello everyone, welcome to my fourth screeencast. This is the second in my series introducing readers to Objective C. Let’s dive in.
Skill Level Beginner
Source Code


Screencast
I film myself coding out the entire sample project for each post. I personally think going through the Screencast is the best way to learn. But feel free to look through the slides and text if that suites you better.

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    Using NSXMLParser to Pull UIImages From the Web

    June 19th, 2009 Posted by: - posted under:Tutorials - 53 Comments

    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 the app we will build is that it will use an XML file online to get the URL and title of a given picture. For each URL and Title pair a view …

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      Objective C 2.0: An Intro – Part 1

      June 18th, 2009 Posted by: - posted under:Tutorials - 54 Comments

      Introduction
      Hello everyone, welcome to my second screeencast. This is going to be the first in a series of screencasts that are focused at people just beginning to work with Objective C and Cocoa. For many reasons the beginnings of learning cocoa development can be frusterating and lonely to a point. Only now is Objective C and Cocoa development gaining the kind of momentum to drive the creation of resources such as iCodeBlog and others.
      Skill Level Beginner
      This is not going to …

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        iCodeBlog Vote: What Are Some New Tutorials You Would Like To See

        June 15th, 2009 Posted by: - posted under:Articles - 42 Comments

        It’s voting time again on iCodeBlog. We have learned quite a bit about programming for the iPhone over the last year or so and would love to share that knowledge with you. I was trying to think of my next tutorial to post and then I had a thought to let the readers decide.
        I know you guys are all in the middle of the next iFart project and just need a little guidance on something to finish it …

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          RightSignature Featured on TechCrunch

          June 1st, 2009 Posted by: - posted under:Articles - Comments Off


          WOW, one of the apps we have been working on has been featured on . The application is called RightSignature. It allows you to digitally sign documents from any computer and your iPhone. It’s a great piece of software that anyone who needs documents signed should definitely try out. If you sign up through you can get 2 months free of the premium service. Can’t beat that!
          So be sure to check …

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            Custom UITableViewCell Using Interface Builder

            May 24th, 2009 Posted by: - posted under:Tutorials - 110 Comments

            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. I am adopting a new structure for my screencasts which will be 5 or so mintues of keynote slides giving background info followed by 20 – 25 mintues of step by step development. The entire video will be directly below …

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              Great Tutorial Series on OpenGL ES

              May 20th, 2009 Posted by: - posted under:Articles - 2 Comments

              Jeff Lamarche author of the book “Beginning iPhone Development” has written (and is currently writing) a . He does an incredibly job of simplifying the complex ideas behind working in 3D and makes learning OpenGL ES easy for even a novice programmer.
              I have always struggled with OpenGL as 3D has a lot of nerdy math, this series breaks it down into the simplest of forms and helped me tremendously. So go check it …

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                EyeCue relaunched!

                May 11th, 2009 Posted by: - posted under:Articles - 6 Comments

                EyeCue relaunched on iTunes! EyeCue has received tremendous amount of success since its original launch. We have had thousands of downloads on the daily basis. Unfortunately, quite a few users experienced crashes due to the compatibility issues in iPhone SDK 2.1 and iPhone SDK 2.2.

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                  Hello Everyone

                  May 8th, 2009 Posted by: - posted under:Articles - 12 Comments

                  Hi there. My name is Collin Ruffenach and I am going to be posting several new iCodeBlog Screencasts in the next few weeks. I have been an avid Apple user for the last 5 years and for the last 3 have really focused on improving my Objective C/Cocoa Skills. I am currently working on several application to be released in the store with the iPhone 3.0 software. Currently I am a Masters CS student at Arizona State University working on …

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                    iPhone Game Programming Tutorial Part 4 – Basic Game Audio

                    May 4th, 2009 Posted by: - posted under:Tutorials - 70 Comments

                    Ok, I will be finishing up this series by showing you guys how to add basic audio to your game. Since this is a beginner tutorial, I won’t go into complex audio using OpenAL or Audio Queues. Today, we will just be playing short sounds (less than 30 seconds). This will be the easiest way to do audio if you don’t require any background music (I guess you could do a nasty hack and loop a 30 …

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