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 [...]

Day 2 comes to an end. Mark finished teaching us about Objective-C. It was alot of material today. Much more about objects, inheritance, subclassing, Categories, Memory Management and Protocols to name just a few. The topic of Memory Management was very helpful, and all along Mark has been showing us how the areas of memory [...]

Today ends Day One of the Seven Day boot camp. Today was an intensive review of C, and an introduction to Objective-C. For me, it was a great class. Mark, our instructor did a great job explaining the topic. We started off slow, with variables, then going into loops, functions, structures, enumerations, and moving onto [...]

I arrived in Atlanta without issue today. The flight was a little bumpy due to turbulance, but otherwise was smooth. It was a long walk to the baggage collection area in the airport. Once I got my bag, I waited for the shuttle bus to arrive. I had to wait for the 5pm shuttle, because [...]

I’ve decided to dedicate myself to the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch. I think there’s a place for me in this market, so I’m headed to the Big Nerd Ranch for some serious training! Tomorrow, I’m off for 7 Days to learn all I can about this device, and become more familiar with it than any other [...]

Hmm, that title is ripe for some horrible comments… But seriously, It’s been almost 4 weeks now, so is it perfect? Does it live up to my exacting standards?
Almost. It’s probably the best smartphone I’ve owned to date. But with that comes some drawbacks for me (you know I had to find something). My only [...]