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app store progress
For the first month of its existence, my game was ticking along at about 200 downloads per day. I have no experience with this, but that seemed pretty good to me. Then I released 1.1.0, which is what...
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iPhone: keyboard trouble
It is possible to type into two or more of these fields without dismissing the keyboard A couple of months ago, a user of my card game reported a bug. He said that when he tried to change the names of...
View ArticleiPhone: UIImage rotation and scaling
Hello to my three remaining blog subscribers! Long time no see! For my first post back after my long hiatus, I’m going to revisit the single most popular entry I’ve written to date, which was about...
View ArticleiPhone cert FUD
I finally got around to installing Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro. I don’t believe in putting a new operating system on top of an old one, so I started over from scratch, on a brand-new hard drive....
View ArticleiPhone and iPad SDK coexistence
Apple has released a new SDK specifically for iPad. It’s not yet ready for prime-time, so if you want to continue to develop for iPhone, you’ll need to use both the old and new SDKs for awhile. Curious...
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UIProgressHUD replacement
Dear internet: I have been searching for a UIProgressHUD replacement for many, many months. Why have you failed me? I don’t suppose it was because of that other, similarly named UIProgressHUD...
View ArticleiPhone: nibless
I just had a look, and my blog is the number one hit on google for the search phrase “iphone nibless.” That leads to a blog post I wrote on the subject last year. I linked to another blog that...
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UIButton graphics highlighting
I have often tried to create a UIButton subclass to do something special, like draw a shadow, but couldn’t make it work. You can’t just override UIView’s drawRect: method and get the results you...
View ArticleInstalling Xcode 3 and 4 side by side on Lion
Xcode 4 sucks so, so, bad. It kills my productivity like whoa. As a consequence, I’ve been doing most of my work in Xcode 3 on Snow Leopard, venturing into Xcode 4 only for testing and final releases....
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UIImage rotation, part 3
UIImage rotate test program My two earlier entries on UIImage rotation are by far the most popular blog posts I’ve ever written. I’m trying to get back into the blogging habit, so here I am, exercising...
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