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A Farewell to Steve Jobs

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:44:04 +0000

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, …

New app: Blanchard Gold Prices

admin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:21:25 +0000

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 …

Juggleware at WWDC

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:40:27 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:06:00 +0000

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 …

Apple v. Satire, part 17.

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:59:51 +0000

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 …

Juggleware app mentioned on NPR

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:07:12 +0000

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 …

Making annotations fit on a Map View.

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:33:15 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:45:55 +0000

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)

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:13:23 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:53:14 +0000

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; …