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Sizing a UIView in Interface Builder

Interface Builder has come a long way since the early days of the iPhone SDK, a long way. However, there are still minor little anoyances that seem to creep up a little more often than I would like. One such anoyance that I recently uncovered was setting a custom size to a UIView when that [...]


Hasta la vista iPhone NDA

It looks like the much loved iPhone NDA has been lifted for released iPhone software. Apple has posted a note on the iPhone developer website to that effect.
“However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for [...]


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 [...]


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