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iPhone Development » February 11, 2009 10:04:57 PM

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I know I have been quite for a long time now, but between work and family life it's been rough. First off I have recently been heads down absorbing all things iPhone. So continue to look in the Apps section for applications. I am hoping to release mo...

Submitting first appStore app » February 12, 2009 12:08:29 AM

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Well I am gearing up to submit my first app to the app store. Its a free app and not too sure on the name but might call it MyTeaTimer. Its just a simple steep timer for all those tea lovers out there like myself. It has simple animation to simulate ...

My app has been submitted » February 12, 2009 10:18:23 PM

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So I have submitted my first app to Apple for release on the app store. It's called "My Tea Timer" right now it's in the "in review" status. The whole process was simple and Apple makes it real easy. There is a great video on iTunes from iTunes U tha...

Noticed an Error » February 13, 2009 9:39:10 AM

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Woke up this morning and I was looking at the app details section of iTunes connect and I noticed that my Minimum OS requirements were set to 2.2.1. Because I didn't want the app to be limiting and I wanted it to be available to all > 2.0 I rejected ...

Cocos2d = Sweet! » February 14, 2009 10:54:07 AM

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SO yesterday I just stumbled upon cocos2d. Its a 2d game framework for the iPhone, well was for Mac OSX and was ported to the iPhone. Anyway it provides everything necessary to create a 2d game, setting up a project was easy, this whitepaper helped o...

App Store Madness » February 18, 2009 1:13:13 PM

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So I have written about 4 apps that are now in the "in review" status. I really think that first one I did is gonna get rejected for something stupid. Well not entirely, I was reading over the usability guidelines supplied by Apple, and it turns out ...

Yup, first rejection » February 19, 2009 10:23:03 AM

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So I knew it was gonna happen, but in a way I was hoping it would slide past them because I was so far into the review process when I noticed. See I didn't read Apple's Human Interface Guidelines until after I submitted my app. Then I saw the "Handli...

At it again » February 20, 2009 11:25:09 AM

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So took a day or so break and am starting back up again. This time working on my first paid app, still looking around for a designer. Well someone to just be like here this is what it should look like and how it should feel. I'm just a programmer and...

Slack Weekend & Apple Rejects » February 23, 2009 10:29:22 AM

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So another weekend went by and because I have been going at it for a while, I decided to take the weekend off from programming and focus on finding a designer and some other house stuff. The whole designer thing went alright, found some talented peop...

App Store Approval » February 23, 2009 4:39:48 PM

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So I just got 3 emails from Apple stating that 3 of my apps are on sale and in the iTunes store. Bart Board, iThesaurus, and My Tea timer have all made it to the app store, look for the links to be updated on the app pages. I am almost already done w...

Objective - C and Random » February 25, 2009 1:13:52 PM

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So I am working on an app, like always, and it needed to generate a random number from 0-3 no problem I thought and just typed in random() % 3; thinking that would be fine. Well it kept returning the same exact sequence!!! So how is that at all rando...

In the top 10 » February 27, 2009 12:45:05 AM

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So the last couple of days have been real exciting. Watching the response from the apps and getting to see actual usage. So I released 4 apps into the app store 2 I thought were pretty meaningless, but got me experience with different parts of the SD...

Foreclosures released » February 21, 2010 10:46:41 AM

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I've been crazy busy recently, mostly work and iPhone development. Can't complain really, it's exciting and I enjoy it very much. Sometimes I like these small weekend projects that simply connects to an API and uses iPhone technology to improve on it...