A few weeks back I was at MacWorld where I talked to the people at APRESS to see what books they may have on CoreData. They had one that seemed to be pretty good and I have picked it up. The book is called Pro Core Data for iOS: Data Access and Persistence Engine for […]
Tag: ios
Day two of MacWorld/iWorld 2014
Wow.. what a busy day, and yes, I picked up a toy today. The Bass Egg was a kickstarted last year, and after hearing it today and doing a few tests (like placing it on my head), I was amazed and had to buy it. I am listening to a podcast on it right now, […]
Local Engineer’s cool Pen
A couple of months ago I was given a PressurePen by Chuck N, from the local Triangle Mac Users Group. The idea was to play with it and write up a blog entry. I had been running iOS7 most of the summer, and the app didn’t seem to work with iOS 7 on either my […]
Core Data and iOS
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 […]
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 […]