Tapworthy


Posted on January 11, 2011 by William Welbes

A couple weeks ago, I got a homework assignment from Jake, our Technical Architect at Centare, and an iOS wiz…. to read Tapworthy by Josh Clark. I’ve been enjoying it thus far - some great insight on human interaction with the iPhone. I’ve already started to incorporate some of the concepts in my development thought process. The author does an excellent job articulating some things that I felt I understood, but didn’t really have a way of explaining, as well as pointing out lots of new stuff that I’ve never thought about. It’s very iPhone specific, but I find that to be better than a more generic, device agnostic, approach to the subject matter.

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NSDate Comparison - Which date is older?


Posted on January 10, 2011 by William Welbes

I had to lookup how to do date comparisons in Objective-C this morning to be able to determine if one date is older than another:

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A new blog for my views and experiences in iOS development...


Posted on January 05, 2011 by William Welbes

I’ve created this blog to act as a scratch pad for stuff I come across as an iOS developer. I spent some time researching what the best platform would be for a development related blog with code postings, nice look and feel, etc. and I finally had to just pick something. I’m familiar with Blogger and I think it will fit the bill for most of the things I’m interested in. I’m going to attempt to incorporate a source code syntax highlighter for easy code posting and viewing.

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