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Slides, Notes, and Video From “iPhone Development for Earthlings”

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Video:

Slides:
iphonedev.pdf (7.5 MB)
I went to MobileCampBoston today and gave my talk on iPhone development. I had decided to toss out the slides I made for it, figuring people would be more up for a discussion than an organized presentation…then decided at the last moment to finish up my presentation.
I felt pretty confident after I gave […]

Boston Geeks: See “iPhone Development for Earthlings”

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

I’m going to be at MobileCamp Boston this weekend, and I’ve prepared a talk on developing for the iPhone. It’s called “iPhone Development for Earthlings.”
What’s with the title? The iPhone SDK announcement has attracted a lot of developers (and even designers) who are pretty new to all the technologies involved. Things Mac nerds like me […]

Unit-Testing NSPasteboard

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

How Pasteboards Work
NSPasteboard is Mac OS X’s mechanism for handling copy and paste, drag and drop, and the choosing of fonts and colors.
When an app needs to take advantage of one of those features, they just call up the appropriate pasteboard. Along with the data to be read or written, the pasteboard stores the […]