Category Archives: Objective C

Evolution or De-Evolution?

Posted on April 5, 2009 by keith

When I started working with ActionScript, you could pretty much get away with anything. You had to screw up pretty bad to get a compiler error. If you got the thing to compile, you were golden. Your SWF might not … Continue reading →

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360iDev

Posted on March 14, 2009 by keith

I wrote a lot of this entry right in San Jose as the conference was on-going. And finished most of it up on the flight home. That being the case, It doesn’t really make sense that it’s taken be a … Continue reading →

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Predicting the future.

Posted on March 9, 2009 by keith

This report by CNET quotes a source that says Android sales will outstrip iPhone by 2012. Ridiculous!!! Why? Because I am invested in iPhone development? Because I don’t like Android? No. Because anyone who thinks they can predict this market … Continue reading →

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More on MVC on the iPhone

Posted on March 7, 2009 by keith

In my previous post, I showed how you could set up a model and using key/value observing, know when various properties of the model were changed. There is one potential problem with this method, as Sam Wan brought up on … Continue reading →

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MVC on the iPhone: The Model

Posted on February 19, 2009 by keith

CocoaTouch is built from the ground up with an MVC paradigm in mind. in most templates, views and view controllers are built for you. UIView and UIViewController are core classes. In many cases you use UIView as is, adding UI … Continue reading →

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ActionScript Hero Interview with ME.

Posted on February 12, 2009 by keith

I had the honor of being interviewed live on the Internet by Pablo Parrado, AKA ActionScript Hero this afternoon. If you weren’t able to view the live session, and just can’t get enough of me… first, seek help. Then, if … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Conferences, Flash, General, iPhone, Objective C | 2 Comments

BIT-101 != Flash ???

Posted on February 12, 2009 by keith

I’ve had a few commenters here bring up the fact that I’m not blogging so much about Flash these days. And it’s true. At the end of December last year I started learning Objective-C for iPhone development, and now I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, General, iPhone, Objective C | 22 Comments

PureMVC for Objective-C: Not quite sure I get it.

Posted on February 8, 2009 by keith

I just noticed that a port of the (originally) AS3 PureMVC fraemwork has been done for Objective-C: http://puremvc.org/content/view/121/1/ Now, I’m not trying to knock PureMVC. I’ve never used it. I’ve heard good things and bad things about it. But I … Continue reading →

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360iDev

Posted on January 27, 2009 by keith

As I mentioned before, I’ll be speaking at 360iDev in a month or so. If you are a Flash/Flex/ActionScript developer interested in learning iPhone development, I honestly think this is an incredible way to do it. First of all, you … Continue reading →

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XCode Conditional Compilation

Posted on January 24, 2009 by keith

I know the rest of the world has had this for years, and I know it’s in Flex Builder if you dig around hard enough, but seems like someone’s trying to keep it a secret. But conditional compilation in XCode … Continue reading →

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