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WWDC 2008 Debrief

Another WWDC has entered the history books and I think that it was a pretty good one. As in previous WWDC’s that I’ve attended I spent the week in simultaneous states of total euphoria and near exhaustion. Unfortunately, I was unable to arrive early enough on Sunday to check-in or attend the MacSB party. The […]


iPhone SDK Beta 6

The latest drop of the iPhone SDK has just been released and I must say that so far it rocks! I’ve had to make only minimal updates to get my iPhone apps running on this latest drop and best of all the builds seem to be blistering fast. Well, they’re pretty darn fast anyway on […]


Virtual Accessors in CoreData

In order to provide the best user experience it often occurs in a UI’s design that the underlying data model doesn’t quite mirror the mental model of the end user. Naturally, as a good UI designer you want to present to the end user what they expect to see and not force upon them your […]


CoreData’s default date value

CoreData is a powerful system available to Cocoa developers. Yet, with all of its inherent power somewhat mundane tasks still need a bit of customization love. Amoung these items are default values for managed object attributes. In particular, the default value for date type attributes usually need some customization.
Within the core data modeler the default […]


Java on the iPhone? Say it ain’t so…

Almost as soon as the iPhone SDK was released Sun announced its plans to develop and release the JVM for the iPhone. As a long time Java developer I should be ecstatic about this news. However, rather than causing sleepless nights dreaming about the possibilities of a JVM on the iPhone it somewhat depresses me. […]


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