iPhone development

Teaching a One Day Intro to iPhone App Development Class at University of Hawaii

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

The University of Hawaii Pacific New Media Outreach College has just posted the details for my one day Intro to iPhone App Development course. It’s a limited class size, so if you are interested, don’t hesitate and sign up today!
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.gitignore for iOS, Android and Ruby on Rails

Monday, November 8th, 2010

There’s a lot of junk in these builds that don’t need to go into Github. Or any source control for that matter. This is the master .gitignore that I for Android, iOS and Ruby on Rails development.
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Tags: android, git, iOS, ruby on rails
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Tracking iOS Crash Reports with Hoptoad

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

The folks over at thoughtbot have an great web app called Hoptoad to monitor exceptions. They’ve had support for a bunch of languages (PHP, Python, Ruby, etc) and frameworks (Merb, rails, Sinatra, etc) through their API. Until recently, I had been using a product called CrashBucket from the guys over at GUI Cocoa and Two Guys to track my iOS apps crash reports. Thoughtbot has now partnered with GUI Cocoa and Two Guys to bring the CrashBucket functionality into Hoptoad. The result of this partnership is the Hoptoad iOS Notifier and it was just announced on November 5th on Thoughtbot’s blog.
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Tags: crashbucket, hoptoad, iOS, ruby on rails
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GData on Rails on Google AppEngine

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

There’s a great article by Jeff Scudder on Retrieving Authenticated Google Data Feeds with Google App Engine on the Google App Engine Articles site. Jeff’s tutorial utilizes the GDdata (Google Data) Python client library. The aim of this article is to replicate Jeff’s Tutorial using GData on Rails on Google App Engine running on JRuby on Rails.

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Tags: appengine, GData, ruby on rails
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