I finally got around to putting my pictures from the Big Nerd Ranch together, better late than never. Enjoy.

Well, I downloaded the beta 3.2 SDK for the iPad. It’s interesting to see how large the screen is in comparison to the iPhone. Yeah, that’s a no-duh statement, but you really don’t get as good a sense of it until you try and build something in Interface Builder. You suddenly have this enormous amount [...]

Well, it’s called the iPad, and from what I’ve seen so far, it’s less than stellar. It appears to be nothing more than a big iPhone; which to me, is a disappointment and a missed opportunity by Apple to do something even greater. Now, I may be a bit harsh in my initial judgement, but [...]

Today, I ran across something at work with my co-worker Sean that just hit us as a “duh” moment. I’ve been a web developer for a LONG time, and this little gem was never in my arsenal of web knowledge.

Today’s development blog entry is some coldfusion code that’s helped me make a little app that is basically a proxy.
It takes a URL as input and does a pre-flight check to ensure that the endpoint is available before launching the user to the destination.
Most web developers probably never need to take this extra step, since [...]

At the Voices That Matter 2009 iPhone developer conference there was a heavy emphasis on good design and August Trometer suggested using paper templates or whatever we could do to plot out or applications before diving into development. We even got an iPhone Sketchbook as a goodie from the conference, which is a neat notepad [...]

My fellow Nerd James Ramsey, sent me a link to an article at iPhoneDeveloperTips.com that talked about creating views that slid onto the screen, without having to completely replace the current UIView. This was something I was trying to attempt doing on my own, but was struggling with. Having followed the tutorial, it’s not too [...]

Over a week has now passed since I attended the Big Nerd Ranch and although I probably should have wrote this entry last week, I had to adjust back to normal life at home.
So, was it worth it all? Yes, I feel it was. It was probably the best learning experience I’ve had the pleasure [...]

Today ends the last full day of the Big Nerd Ranch iPhone Bootcamp. Hard to believe tomorrow’s a half day and we all go our separate ways, it’s even harder to believe the amount of information that’s been crammed into my skull over the last 6 days!
Today’s lessons were WebKit, Web Services, Media and OpenGL [...]

Day five draws to a close. The course material got much more challenging during the day 4 and 5. Today we continued with the table views exercises we began on Day 4 and expanded on what we had done to include editing table data and saving the information out to the internal disk. We also [...]