I’ve been working on a new app lately, and I’ve taken this time to try and teach myself CoreData. CoreData is the mechanism by which Apple has taken traditional SQL database and mapped it to the programming model used in iOS apps. Over the next few blog entries I will try and describe my learning […]
Tag: ios
Apple finishes update to Developer Portal
Last night, as I was checking my email before going to bed, I got a note from Apple that their replace/rebuild of the Developer portal had been completed and all services are working again. Great news, and hopefully Apple has addressed, not only the security flaws identified by the Turkish researcher, but any fundamental design […]
Security and will Monday see another iOS Beta?
Prior to the security issues on Apple’s site over a week ago, Apple had been on a bi-weekly cadence for iOS and OS X beta releases. Last Monday, (July 22nd) the developer portal was down while Apple rebuilt the site to address the security issues no iOS beta was reported to be released. With less […]
Apple Developer Portal Update
Last Thursday I got a password reset email on my iOS developer account, one that I didn’t request. Given that I didn’t request it, I filed it away for when I had time to call Apple and find out what was going on. Well yesterday I got an email from Apple indicating that someone had […]
Keeping your code new – a dilemma
I’ve written a post on this idea from the perspective of your users, should you upgrade your app to the latest level of an operating system. I’ve even talked about how you learn by keeping up with the latest releases of API’s and interfaces. But what about the down side? Traditionally large IT companies have […]
It’s all a matter of public record
I recently had the chance to review a locally developed app called Public Record. This application provides search capabilities for legal documents and court records in the state of North Carolina. There are multiple applications that provide this capability, but I cannot compare the functionality as I have not tried them. As a supporter of […]
iOS Storyboards, AutoLayout, and Constraints
I’ve been in the process of refactoring my app – Wasted Time in order to add native Facebook integration and a new ToDo feature. As part of this refactoring, I am changing from a simple UITabBarController to a UINavagationController based root control. This change will allow me to have the ToDoViewController be able to be […]
Where does your App make it’s money
This week has been just as crazy as any other week, but I guess that’s a good thing. Had a great time this week at my first every iOS Meetup (a sister group of TMUG). While the group was small, we had a great time sharing new apps and ideas about using our respective devices. […]
Books I am reading now
I tend to buy a lot of technical books, and I read many of them. Very free of them are just used as reference, Right now I am take a break on the technical books and am re-reading the Hobbit in time for the upcoming movie. So what books am currently in progress on? Two […]
Sunday is coding time
As I’ve mentioned in recent posts, my day job is a bit overloaded lately. The good news is, after spending significant time working on Saturday, I discovered that I will not have my first thing Monday morning meeting. What that means is, today I get to code! I’ve been struggling with inserting sprites between layers […]