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Testing for OS X vs iOS

by Erica Sadun (Dec 26th, 2012)

Yesterday, I was messing around building shared NSLayoutConstraint code to be used across iOS and OS X. I put in a few #if TARGET_OS_MAC directives, assuming they'd just work. They didn't. Turns out that you should always check for TARGET_OS_IPHONE first, before TARGET_OS_MAC because the ...

BBEdit 10.5 adds Retina support (updated)

by Mike Wehner (Dec 4th, 2012)

Bare Bones Software's HTML and text editing program, BBEdit, has just received a sharp new update that adds a wealth of new features and improvements, as well as full Retina display support for Apple's latest MacBooks. Version 10.5 adds the ability to compare the current document against ...

More options for programming on iOS

by Mike Schramm (Nov 20th, 2012)

Yesterday I posted about Python on the iPhone, and how cool it was to be able to put code together right on an iOS device. We've previously posted about Codea a few times, but since yesterday, I've heard about a few other good options for writing and running code inside of an iOS app. First ...

Python 3.2 lets you write Python on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Nov 19th, 2012)

We've posted before about Codea, an iPad app that allows you to code and create LUA scripts. And now here's a new iPhone app called Python 3.2 that, as you might imagine, allows coders to write Python scripts through iOS. The app runs Python 3.2.3 and serves as a full development environment ...

Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, others to launch new Web standards resource

by Mike Schramm (Oct 8th, 2012)

Apple is just one of quite a few big tech companies signed on to help support the Worldwide Web Consortium (known as the W3C) in developing a brand new web standards resource called WebPlatform.org. The new site is simply designed to get all available information about how to code for the ...

WWDC Alerts will help make sure you get into Moscone

by Mike Schramm (Jan 6th, 2012)

Two Mac developers have created an alerts service, which you can sign up for free right now, that will let you know the very moment that tickets go on sale for this year's WWDC in San Francisco. Just put in your cell phone number, send back one code for verification, and then you'll get a text ...

Objective-C rocketing up the TIOBE charts

by Mike Schramm (Sep 6th, 2011)

The TIOBE index is a chart of what have been rated as the most popular programming languages in the world, according to various searches online, the number of experts in those languages, and even software output (though it is very certainly not a strict chart of "most lines written"). ...

Foto Find: Geohot returns to his roots

by Mike Schramm (Jul 17th, 2011)

Hacker and programmer George "Geohot" Hotz recently took a job at Facebook after causing all sorts of trouble with Sony's PlayStation, but as you can see by the tweeted picture above, this weekend the guy went back to basics, working on iPhone programming and jailbreaking at the iOSDevCamp in ...

Lessons learned from the iPhone tab bar

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 12th, 2011)

The internet is a great resource for developers looking for tips, tricks and solutions to troubling coding problems. Sometimes these nuggets of information are found in highly visited websites like Stack Overflow. Other times, these resources are uncovered accidentally via a series of web links ...

BBEdit 9.5.1 out now

by Mike Schramm (Jul 29th, 2010)

You lousy kids, with your iPhones and iPads and iGadgets! Back in my day, we worked on real computers, with real keyboards, and mice with one button, and we liked it! BBEdit is a relative relic of that age -- when text ruled the Earth, BBEdit ruled text. And the old Mac app is still being updated. ...

Voices that Matter iPhone: How Ben Newhouse created Yelp Monocle, and the future of AR

by Mike Schramm (Apr 26th, 2010)

Yelp's Ben Newhouse (who is actually still a student at Stanford) gave a fascinating talk this weekend at the Seattle Voices that Matter iPhone conference. He talked about Yelp Monocle, the augmented reality (AR) iPhone app that he created, and revealed the surprising (and somewhat scandalous) ...

Friday Favorite: Snippets

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 8th, 2010)

Welcome to Friday Favorites! Every Friday, one of us will get all sloppy over an app, web service, or Mac feature that makes us grin like an idiot every time we use it. This week, Brett tells us about his favorite new snippet manager. If you write code, you probably reuse blocks of it. Whether ...

TUAW is now on GitHub

by Joachim Bean (Oct 13th, 2009)

As posting code on the blog can sometimes can get very cluttered, we have just set up a GitHub account for TUAW to make everything better and easier for everyone. This is where you'll be able to find code for our developer-related posts. We'll try to get some projects hosted in there very soon, so ...

Beware the coming Twitpocalypse

by Mike Schramm (Jun 12th, 2009)

Oh, computers. Every time we think we've figured you out, you come up with another number-related disaster for us to fear. This time around, it's the Twitpocalypse -- apparently Twitter decided to use a unique identifier in their API for each separate tweet that goes out, and come sometime this ...

PDF version of iPhone developer's cookbook available

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 8th, 2008)

This post refers to the first edition of The iPhone Developer's Cookbook; the 2nd edition, covering the 3.0 SDK, was released at the end of 2009 and is available here. It's a good day to become an iPhone developer: in addition to the screencast we mentioned, someone near and dear to us at TUAW ...