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A Useful UITableView Cell Creation Pattern

Like many iPhone apps, the app I'm currently working on uses several table views. Most of these display actual lists of data, and some are used as a convenient layout mechanism for input fields, navigation, and other UI elements (similar to iPhone preference screens)....

December 19, 2009 · 5 min · 1032 words · DigitalHobbit

iPhone Development is Fun!

It's been a while since I completed my first iPhone development project, and I figured I'd finally write up my initial experience with this platform. A bit late, but better than never......

May 10, 2009 · 7 min · 1437 words · DigitalHobbit

Evernote: A Promising Start

After having signed up for an Evernote beta invite a while ago, I finally received one this week. Evernote is a next generation note taking service. What sets it apart from similar applications are the numerous ways of entering as well as retrieving notes. First of all there is the Evernote Website. It is simple and straightforward, and seems to be very responsive....

March 15, 2008 · 4 min · 829 words · DigitalHobbit

iPhone SDK

This morning, Apple finally announced details about the long-awaited iPhone SDK. The SDK is available for download starting today, and it sounds pretty intriguing! It comes with a full application stack that includes a custom version of Cocoa (Cocoa Touch), and APIs to access all the iPhone specific features, including hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, the accelerometer, camera, contacts, as well as location-awareness. This sounds a lot more complete that I expected....

March 7, 2008 · 4 min · 693 words · DigitalHobbit

Gentoo / AMD64 / Bluetooth

After a bit of fiddling with masked ebuilds, I finally managed to get Bluetooth working with Gnome on my AMD64-based Gentoo system....

February 3, 2005 · 1 min · 138 words · DigitalHobbit