Apple has recently released Xcode 4—a major part of this release is an overhaul of the user interface. Change in your development environment is always a bit disruptive, but overall I think the move towards a single-window environment that adapts to different working modes is a good thing. But this post is not to debate […]
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Every once in awhile you read a blog post that completely changes the way you think about a problem. Matt Gallagher’s Cocoa With Love is one of those blogs where it happens often. If you’re not subscribing to his RSS feed, do it now. In particular, this post addressed a problem that every iPhone developer […]
A friend of mine recently commented that native Twitter applications are the new flashlights. It’s true, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise: consider the number of web apps that proliferated before the advent of the native SDK. Personally, I welcome this competition. Seeing the work of other developers whose work I respect and admire […]
People have asked which part of our Twitterrific application for the iPhone was hardest to develop. There were many challenges, but the one I found most onerous was scrolling in the UITableView. The code we shipped in 1.0 was obviously flawed. Scrolling was jerky. We weren’t happy with it and neither were users. There was […]
Now that the iPhone has given us all a taste of a multi-touch user interface, I have been hearing many people say how cool it would be to have touch-based input on a new line of desktop displays from Apple. If you’re one of the people who think that a multi-touch monitor is a good […]