The iPhone Developer's Notebook

Blog Moving

2010-01-25T14:48:00.000-05:00

The blog is moving locations. This is to allow more flexibility with other languages etc. For the latest updates, please visit the new blog.

Understanding Model-View-Control (MVC)

2009-08-31T07:00:00.002-04:00

If you're new to iPhone development or new to programming in general, I encourage you to take a look iTunes-U for a wide variety of classes and courses. In particular, look for the Stanford course for iPhone Development. It is complete with a wide array of resources, lecture slides, materials, and will definitely save you time in your quest to develop the next iPhone application. Ok, enough with

Side Note - C++ reinterpret_cast

2009-08-25T01:00:00.000-04:00

If you find yourself handed code that has memory corruption issues and uses reinterpret_cast, take a closer look. Reinterpret cast in C++ is not meant to be used to downcast a derived class to a more basic class. Doing so will give you the incorrect address for the base type. Instead, do a dynamic_cast. It's much safer and is the correct way to make a cast of this type.

Walking Backwards - Introductory Tutorials - The AppDelegate

2009-07-31T16:10:00.002-04:00

When I started coding for the iPhone, I spent the first few coding sessions reading and watching tutorials and books. They're priceless when it comes to learning at a rapid pace. In fact, there's a good deal of freely available video tutorials that show you first hand how other developers go about coding on the iPhone.One example in particular I would like to highlight is the Hello World App.

Mysterious issues creating plist files

2009-06-26T21:36:00.002-04:00

So I've been using plists as a way to internally store data to my application. My data set has gotten so huge that I needed to beef up my unit tests to uncover some test algorithm bugs in order to produce a better histogram as to how well my application is performing. Unfortunately, I ran into a little snafu. When I created my test plist file, I neglected to pick the correct type of file. I

XCode Crashing? Did you just add a PNG to your project?

2009-05-15T14:51:00.000-04:00

This issue took me less than a half hour to figure out, but apparently after adding a PNG file to my project, XCode seemed to crash rather frequently. I was getting a trace of NSView in the dump, and it seemed to crash whenever I clicked on the image I added (which triggered the preview to be displayed in XCode.It turns out, XCode doesn't like 16-bit PNG files. So, if you happened to add one and

What's to Come!

2009-05-14T15:40:00.000-04:00

I suppose to start off with this blog, why blog? Consider it part of the developer's code of conduct...helping developers become better developers. We've all gone through the trenches at one point or another, and yet we all seem to hit the same spots where we get tripped up. So here it is, my.... "iPhone Developer's Notebook!" Each article I write is sort of like a "lessons learned", my hope