Design your code: part one May 10, 2010 08:20 am Posted By: bytedissident I’m just going to jump right in, after years of coding and developing in various languages the one thing I think needs saying more than anything else is that code like everything else needs to be designed. Your code is not devoid of an esthetic so it’s up to you as the programmer to define [...] [read more]

iPhone Ad Hoc Tutorial March 21, 2010 03:30 pm Posted By: bytedissident I decided to quickly write this tutorial on doing an ad hoc because it seems like a pain in the ass, but it’s really pretty simple as long as you you follow a few steps. I’m going to assume you know how to generate a distribution provision the iPhone Provisioning Portal and go from there. Step [...] [read more]

Encapsulation March 19, 2010 11:51 am Posted By: bytedissident “the process of compartmentalizing the elements of an abstraction that constitute its structure and behavior; encapsulation serves to separate the contractual interface of an abstraction and its implementation.” – gary booch [read more]

jQTouch modification :: passing objects for callback December 15, 2009 07:53 am Posted By: bytedissident So I have been developing a few apps with jQTouch, an excellent plugin for the jQuery library. If you haven’t checked it out you should. Anyways, I wrote an app for a client over the past few days that featured a typical iPhone grouped table view. The table view in question has a 2 lists: [...] [read more]

Writing a jQuery plugin November 30, 2009 09:50 am Posted By: bytedissident I assume if you are reading this you are already a jQuery convert. If not you should be. As someone who has been writing Javascript for more than 11 years I’ll sum it up in two words, “It Rules”. That said one of the smartest things John Resig and his team did was make jQuery [...] [read more]

iPhone: Creating Static Libraries November 23, 2009 10:33 pm Posted By: bytedissident Static libraries are particularly useful when you are developing applications for a client who is handling the submission process and you need to deliver your xcode project, but want to keep your source code private. The process is pretty simple and I’ve tried to make this tutorial a simple step by step process. Enjoy! Step 1: In [...] [read more]

draw the line November 19, 2009 11:34 pm Posted By: bytedissident Overview: This is a drawing app that takes the artist David Gray’s art and allows an iPhone user to create drawings/collages both with pieces of his art that exist in the app as well as their own drawings. The user can then upload the finished piece to Twitter or save it in their photos library. [...] [read more]

appetite:: For Music November 19, 2009 11:32 pm Posted By: bytedissident Overview: This project is fairly large and has a number of components, but in a nutshell is a framework for creating apps for bands (the music industry) quickly with the added ability to easily add custom modules to the sytem . The apps share content and the displays include: iPhone, Facebook, widgets as well as [...] [read more]