Tag Archives: Development

When it rains it pours!

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Lane Roathe

So I’d been looking for my next opportunity for a while, being quite picky about the opportunities I pursued. I found several very interesting opportunities, and one in NY (which has numerous posts on iphone/cocoa dev lists) that seemed really … Continue reading →

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OOP != classes, but may == DOD

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Lane Roathe

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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The Bank is available on iTunes!

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Lane Roathe

Our latest title is available on iTunes. It took one week to get it approved, and that included the entire time iTunesConnect was closed down! Anyway, here’s the info on the game: Story: The economic recession of 2008 was not … Continue reading →

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How to background load and cache UIImageViews images

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Lane Roathe

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 Lane Roathe

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 Lane Roathe

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 Lane Roathe

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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When is a WebOS “OK”?

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Lane Roathe

So I’ve been wondering for a while now as product announcements get made and the online and press communities react: when is a WebOS a good thing? Specifically, for instance, when Apple first announced the iPhone, it provided developers with … Continue reading →

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CAContextInvalidLayer and setFence:count

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Lane Roathe

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 Lane Roathe

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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