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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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12 March 2008 @ 2pm

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iPhone SDK first impressions

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week you’ve probably heard about the new iPhone SDK beta release by Apple. The SDK opens the doors to what promises to be a groundbreaking platform for software development. In fact, legendary VC firm KPCB believes in the platforms possibilities so much that they […]


A Warning about your inverse relationships

When working on a data model it is common to run into a situation where one data entity knows about another but not the other way around. Usually you can make the argument that both objects should know about each other. However, for one reason or another, which usually comes down to some underlying implementation […]


Creating an Action PopUp Button in Leopard

It seems that everywhere you look in OS X you see applications with popup action buttons. You know, that button with a gear on it. Click it and a menu full of goodies pops up for you to play with. Apple itself uses it pretty extensively in its apps; Mail and Finder are […]


Sorting a CoreData backed NSArrayController

NSArrayController is an incredible way to provide data to many of Cocoa’s UI controls. Typically, it manages an array of data objects which can be sorted, filtered, selected, and basically served up to the UI control for display. Pair this flexibility with the power of CoreData and you have a powerful dynamic.
However, this flexibility […]


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