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RE: Developing for the iPhone - what you need to know

Pranav — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:43:14 GMT

Hey Richard, Nice writeup, thanks for you effort! It was really helpful! I am also a web developer, was looking for a starting point with iPhone apps, and this was a good one! Pranav

RE: Developing for the iPhone - what you need to know

Admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:33:08 GMT

Alwin, you can try before you buy. You can download the development kit and use their emulator. You won't be able to test it on a real device though. To test on a real device and to put your app in the app store you will need to pay to join the full programme.

RE: Developing for the iPhone - what you need to know

Alwin Tyanto Ikhsan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:36:57 GMT

Wow, that was a great article. Iam very interested in developing iphone software. but i have some question Is it OK to not joining iphone developing program that will cost me $99? Since iam a college student, i will spend my money wisely. I already learn a lot about C and C++ but i know nothing about Objective C, should i learn that first? thanks a lot

RE: Motion tracking with Flash and ActionScript 3

PO — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:53:08 GMT

GOOD @@ THANKS

RE: Developing for the iPhone - what you need to know

Todd Baxter — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:55:47 GMT

Thanks for the information. I am really interested in the iphones and Ipads touch features. I have an autistic son, and want to develop apps that will help both him and other children with this condition. Going to go with what you shown me and learn objective C and then worry about how I will afford the Mac and Ipad later.. Thanks for the information..

RE: ActionScript 3 timeout problems when working with XML

dave — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:39:46 GMT

Oh man this was a lifesaver. I was using the descendant accessor all over the place and my compiler was choking on a 5500 line xml file. I optimized my loops as suggested and now it not only compiles without timing out but does so in a few seconds. thanks!

RE: ActionScript 3 timeout problems when working with XML

gom — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:46:25 GMT

I've solved same problem by using XMLList. Thank you for good posting.

RE: ActionScript 3 timeout problems when working with XML

Admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:12:35 GMT

@bijo. If you've followed the advice in this article and you're still having problems, then I think your XML file is probably just too large. If I was you, I would split it into much smaller sections and load them 1 at a time as they're needed.

RE: ActionScript 3 timeout problems when working with XML

Bijo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:56:35 GMT

Dear Richard, I went through your article and found it to be very interesting. Now, I'm having a similar problem in loading large xml files. I have a question bank of appr. 10,000 questions. I divided it into various unit xmls of average 1000 nodes. I'm using a custom class to store individual questions, options,the answer and the user answer. But while loading the questions from xml to the variable in the instance of the class, flash hangs saying, 1502 A script has executed for longer than the default timeout period of 15 seconds. Is there a better way to do this? Please help. Thanks, Bijo

RE: This blog now uses Oxite, an ASP.NET MVC blogging engine

Erik Porter — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:40:06 GMT

You're welcome and very cool. Glad to see another blog using Oxite. Lots of exciting stuff coming, but yes the upgrade path here in the early stages will be sort of big. Happy to help if you run into problems when that time comes. :)

RE: Developing for the iPhone - what you need to know

RichardG — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:31:14 GMT

Some friends of mine are running an iPhone Development Course in Leeds. If you're interested, check it out.

RE: Developing for the iPhone - what you need to know

DJ Risks — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:09:19 GMT

Thanks for this, it as really helped. I too am a web developer and I'm interested in making a web application on the i-phone. It seems like I have to get a MAC first though!

RE: ActionScript 3 timeout problems when working with XML

Gary — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:40:25 GMT

Instead of doing what you do in the second loop, you could just use the for each construct instead: for each (var director:XML in filmCollectionXML..director) { ... } When you use a for each it only evaluates the xpath expression once.

RE: Choosing a font

RichardG — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:31:16 GMT

Cool. Thanks Dave!

RE: Choosing a font

David J — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:32:29 GMT

Love it Rich, I'm just about to send it around work :)

RE: Perfect validation?

Bh — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:53:36 GMT

From where can we download these controls ?

RE: Flash Flickr viewer

RichardG — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:25:07 GMT

I've extended this so that it will take you to see the photo on Flickr when you click it.

RE: Perfect validation?

timmyc — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:54:25 GMT

It's good Richard. I'm impressed with the way you've incorporated both client- and server-side validation.

RE: My new blog

RichardG — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:04:33 GMT

Creating this blogging software has been a great way of improving my ASP.NET skills.

It uses ASP.NET 2.0, is programmed in C#. It has a SQL server 2000 backend and makes full use of stored procedures (although I've heard that ORM might be the future).

I didn't really appreciate how complex a piece of blogging software could be. Now I've been using it for a while I have a feature request as long as my arm.

If I was to do this again I'd probably not reinvent the wheel and I'd use something like dasBlog or Subtext. These are both open source ASP.NET blogging engines that I've heard good things about.

RE: OpenCoffee

RichardG — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:00:36 GMT

Thanks Craig. It could be the next Moo Card I guess, although if everyone had one, I'd need to think of something else to do so I'd stand out.

Has anyone sucessfully followed the instructions yet? I think I may need to revist them, as the current feedback is that they're a bit hard. I'm thinking of putting together a little 'how to' video.

RE: OpenCoffee

Craig — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:02:59 GMT

Some of the fellas who went to the Open Coffee (the Nexus guys) brought back one of those origami business to the office. It's a cracking idea. Could it be the next Moo card?

RE: The book every programmer should read

RichardG — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:47:36 GMT

Dave, this book was written for you.

RE: The book every programmer should read

David J — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:21:46 GMT

Excellent stuff, I must give it a read. I've been looking for something similair Language agnostic.

RE: University final year project – Evolving Pursuit and Evasion Strategies in Realistic Worlds

RichardG — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:52:02 GMT

I also used this project report as an excuse to try out testing PDFs for accessibility.

It took me several hours to make this PDF accessible. This was mainly because there are quite a few tables in it. I've only been able to test it using the Adobe tools, so if anyone using a screen reader wants to try and let me know how they did, that'd be great.

RE: Our sculpture on Google Earth

RichardG — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:15:52 GMT

Thanks Dave. I've got four five-star ratings now. That's got to be a good way towards getting on Google Earth.

RE: Our sculpture on Google Earth

David J — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:59:41 GMT

Voted for :)

RE: Automating ASP.NET building with NAnt

RichardG — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:21:03 GMT

Selenium sounds incredibly useful. Shame we didn't know about it when we did the Pensions Credit Calculator all those moons ago.

I'll have to try and get some Selenium tests working to test the log in and comment leaving parts of this blog.

RE: Richard's weather

RichardG — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:11:40 GMT

Ian, I might try and sell it to you later. It's written as an ASP.NET control and would be easy to plug into any site. Shouldn't be too hard to re-write it in PHP either so it'd work on your site.

I was in London yesterday while the great flood was happening up North. I checked my blog to find that I was experiencing heavy rain in Leeds. I really struggled to get back here on the train, but I did okay.

RE: Richard's weather

Ian S — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:19:45 GMT

I like this. There's probably a little app here. Let people put their own photos in and put it on their own sites. A bit like those houses where the little man or woman would pop their head out. Although if you made one of those with a miniature version of you and scrambledheads, I'd buy it.

RE: Automating ASP.NET building with NAnt

David J — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:09:22 GMT

I've just finished co-writing some Selenium scripts in C# and the next step is using Nant / Cruise Control so I'll let you know how it goes :)

RE: Renaming lots of images quickly

RichardG — Mon, 28 May 2007 00:31:26 GMT

Dad, we're probably all better off using Bridge for this one. Unless you've not got it, or are trying to rename a non-image file. Sometimes it's good to discover geeky stuff though.

RE: Renaming lots of images quickly

Dad — Sun, 27 May 2007 18:06:25 GMT

Would you recommend Adobe Bridge to me to use or could I use your little programme?

RE: A quicker way to email

David J — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:07:43 GMT

Wow, thats great you're the man

RE: Renaming lots of images quickly

RichardG — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:07:36 GMT

Typical! I've found an easier and less geeky way to do this.

I've just discovered a really good batch image renaming feature in Adobe Bridge. So, this probably isn't the best use of Powershell. However it's still a really useful thing to know, and it will definitely be something I start using more.