Category Archives: Development

Restoring playback of Sound Effects in Lion (ex: iChat doesn’t play alert messages)

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

I recently switch my full time OS from SL to Lion and one of the bugs I have noticed is that anytime I let Lion put my Mac Pro to sleep I loose playback of all sound effects. For instance … Continue reading →

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How to manage iOS Provisioning Profiles

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

How to manage iOS Provisioning Profiles While the process of managing iOS Provisioning profiles continues to be refined by Apple, it still is not a totally obvious process, especially when it comes to some of the finer details like updating … Continue reading →

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OOP != classes, but may == DOD

Posted on March 22, 2010 by

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses “objects” – data structures consisting of datafields and methods together with their interactions. I was reading an interesting article today about a design methodology that I’ve been practicing since 1982, “Data … Continue reading →

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How to background load and cache UIImageViews images

Posted on December 18, 2009 by

It’s often the case that the apps I am working on are required to download quite a couple, or even a few dozen, images and display them in a UIImageView. In looking online I found a few different methods of … Continue reading →

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App Store Icon vs iPhone Icon

Posted on September 25, 2009 by

I just had my first title submission rejection from the App Store. The reason given? The small bundle icon does not match your large icon. OK, so at first I was pretty irate, they both contain the same elements and … Continue reading →

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Snow Leopard Breaks All 3rd Party Apps by Removing Creator Codes!

Posted on September 10, 2009 by

Begin RANT OK, so the title is a little sensational … but this decision is going to cost me money, so I am understandably upset. It’s also a decision that seems to have no merit, and if rumor is correct … Continue reading →

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Using Handles to Improve Memory Use

Posted on September 3, 2009 by

Memory Is Not Free! While newer desktop machines are able to use hardware and/or Virtual Memory (VM) to somewhat take care of memory fragmentation, it is not always effective. While it differs with architecture and OS, VM is limited to … Continue reading →

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CAContextInvalidLayer and setFence:count

Posted on June 7, 2009 by

So there I was, up for nearly a day straight and have figured out the certificate issue that was preventing my program from running on my iPhone after upgrading to SDK 3.0 beta 5. On the device I was getting … Continue reading →

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Quick fix for TableViewCellSubviews sample project

Posted on June 2, 2009 by

Symptom The Sample Code for TableViewSuite, example 4 TableViewCellSubviews has an incorrect project setting that prevents running the sample in release. Problem The problem is due to the TableViewCellSubviews project referencing the application as CustomTableViewCell instead of TableViewCellSubviews. Solution FIX: … Continue reading →

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putpkt: write failed: Broken pipe

Posted on June 1, 2009 by

Hopefully this will provide some useful information for someone, because I did a lot of google searching and didn’t come up with an answer to this one that way. After upgrading my sdk from 2.2.1 to 3.0 beta 5 I … Continue reading →

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