Well, I guess it’s official, Apple has denied Adobe’s ability to do anything relating to Flash on the iPhone. Not even the ability to use Flash to create content for the iPhone or iPad. Reports all over the major tech blogs are reporting this, and the response has been interesting. Some praise it, others abhor [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today was a big day. We learned to work with the Accelerometer, detect and handle rotation, work with multiple views using tabbed views and the navigation bar, and lastly we learned to work with data and table views. Today was probably one of the more grueling days so far. It all made sense, but it [...]

Today ends Day three of the Big Nerd Ranch. Mark finished his overview of Objective-C and now it was Joe’s turn to take us into iPhone development.  Our first appication was a simple quiz application that served as an introduction to using Xcode’s Window Based Application template, Interface Builder, and deploying an application to our [...]