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A Farewell to Steve Jobs
When I heard that Steve Jobs was resigning from Apple, I suspected that he wasn’t long for this world. But I was still taken aback to see how quickly the end came. He worked pretty much up till the end, …
Posted in Miscellany
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New app: Blanchard Gold Prices
Juggleware worked with Bent Media to develop a real-time financial reporting iPhone app for Blanchard and Company, Inc.
The app uses a special chart-drawing library that we developed to display the (seemingly ever-increasing) price of gold, silver and other …
Posted in Client App Work, iPhone Apps
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Juggleware at WWDC
WWDC is definitely the top annual event for Apple developers. The event, which took place last week at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco was Juggleware’s first year there, and it was all that it was promised to be. …
Streaming Radio app approved
Fast on the heels of the last post, we are pleased to announce that Apple has approved Juggleware’s latest app, Radio Backporch Revolution.
Initially we received a rejection letter from the App Store review team, saying that the app …
Posted in App Store, iPhone Apps, Radio BPR
Tagged App Store, developer, iPhone Apps, iPhone Development, music, radio, rejected, streaming
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Apple v. Satire, part 17.
Pulitzer-prize winning satirist Mark Fiore had his app rejected by Apple because it “ridicules public figures.”
Regular readers will remember that Juggleware’s own app Freedom Time was actually the test case of this unwritten and up-til-then unknown policy, which had …
Posted in App Store, Freedom Time
Tagged App Store, apple, censor, defamatory, developer, Freedom Time, iPhone Apps, iPhone Development, parody, rejected, satire, steve jobs
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Juggleware app mentioned on NPR
NPR ran a story yesterday about Apple’s new iPad which just hit stores, but critics say that the “walled garden” approach (just like the iPhone) makes the Internet a less free place and could spell the end of the net …
Posted in App Store, Freedom Time
Tagged App Store, censor, Freedom Time, iPad, iPhone Apps, NPR, steve jobs
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Making annotations fit on a Map View.
After struggling with formulae that convert degrees longitude and latitude to meters, I found a much better way to get annotations to fit on a Map View, thanks to this site:
http://codisllc.com/blog/zoom-mkmapview-to-fit-annotations/…
Helpful Core Data debugging
Core Data is really great, but if your app crashes without warning it can be a major headache. Replacing the default error handling code with this more involved approach saved me hours of time debugging:
http://www.designcodeexecute.com/2009/08/28/iphone-sdk-coredata-debugging-error-1560-1570…
Can not use an object as parameter to a method (Obj-C errors, part 2)
This is an easy one to seasoned X-coders, but one that tripped me up a few times when I first got started.
BAD CODE:
-(void) makePhotoFromImage: (UIImage )image;
ERROR:
can not use an object as parameter to a method
TRANSLATION…
Objective C compiler errors: translations for newbs
I’m pretty new at Xcode and Objective C, so there may not be a one-to-one correspondence here between errors and the most probable cause, but this helps me so it may help you.
This will be a work in progress; …