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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 ...

Manage secret preferences with Secrets

by Dave Caolo (Mar 1st, 2008)

Here's a clever utility from the creator of Quicksilver. Secrets (no, not the Van Halen song) is a preference pane that lets you fiddle with the hidden defaults of nearly all your applications. For instance, show the iPhoto toobar in full screen mode and make those iTunes arrows link to your library ...

Trism matches the iPhone's accelerometer with puzzle gameplay

by Mike Schramm (Feb 29th, 2008)

One more reason why we can't wait for the iPhone SDK to drop. GameSetWatch has a short interview up with developer Steve D of Demiforce about his new iPhone game, Trism. It's a Bejeweled-like gem matching puzzle game, but the twist is that after getting matched, the gems fall in the direction that ...

TUAW Responds: Reader requests 1.1.2 Header Bundle

by Erica Sadun (Nov 16th, 2007)

TUAW Reader scw wrote in asking if I could put together the headers for the 1.1.2 Frameworks in a downloadable format. Scw, your wish is our...um...command Number 1 Priority request. I took out some time and zipped up a complete 1.1.2 header bundle for you. TUAW hopes this helps you update your ...

iPhone Coding: Use NSBundle and avoid hard-coded paths

by Erica Sadun (Nov 13th, 2007)

Listen up, iPhone coders, NSBundle is your friend. It lets you look in your main .app bundle and retrieve files without hardcoding paths. Avoid "/Application/MyProg.app/foo.png" and replace your absolute references with relative ones. This lets your users install your applications wherever they ...

iPhone Coding: iPhone Developer Docs updated to 1.1.2

by Erica Sadun (Nov 13th, 2007)

A few weeks ago, our Mike Rose posted about my 1.1.1 iPhone header documentation. I'm pleased to say that after a huge amount of work, I've updated those docs up to version 1.1.2. The new documents cover all the Objective-C headers for the iPhone and iPod touch 1.1.2 frameworks including updated ...