Today ended day seven, the last day of the Big Nerd Ranch. It wasn’t a full day, we ended the day at noon. We had lunch and then it was off to the airport. For the last day we covered the address book, bonjour, preferences, and sqllite. Being a half day and having done so [...]

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 [...]

I’m on the plane and on my way!

Well, I finally gave in and did it! I couldn’t stand to use my Xperia anymore. After struggling with Windows Mobile for 8 months and having tried the Palm Pre, I decided the time was right to get an iPhone. Having used my iPod Touch heavily over the last 8 months also helped finalize my [...]