Mike Rundle

Member since: Nov 3rd, 2005

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Download Squad	1 Comment
The Jason Calacanis Weblog	2 Comments

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Dev Chair : iPhone SDK experience (Download Squad)

Mar 29th 2008 12:58PM Although hand-coding user interface elements is a bit daunting, the abundance of sample code that Apple has packaged within the SDK is simple to pick through so creating UI elements is a mere copy-and-paste job. I believe all the UI widgets you've described (plus buttons in navigation bar, the up/down arrows, etc.) are available either in sample apps UIShowcase or their navbar example, so that shouldn't be difficult to emulate. Also if you don't want to make the "plus" image (+) then you'll find it in one of those apps and can just drag it into yours.

As someone who wrote Java many years ago, then switched to focusing on web-based languages (PHP, Javascript), the learning of Obj-C is fantastic and overwhelming at the same time, mainly because I have little experience with memory allocation, header files, pointers, etc., all things inherited from C. However after reading code and working with the SDK for the past few weeks I'm very comfortable in the syntax of Obj-C and the Cocoa frameworks, and have been putting together some very interesting stuff.

For complete non-programmers looking to "just put an app together" with the SDK, they're in for a big shock and better break out an Introduction to Cocoa book :)

iPhone SDK works on PowerPC Macs, sort of (TUAW.com)

Mar 13th 2008 12:18PM Just a quick clarification, it's not an error message, it's a build warning..... the build still goes off without a hitch and can be run and tested in the iPhone emulator environment. It's important to note the difference because one means apps don't build and the other means they do :)

-Mike (3by9 author)

BMW 5-Series breaks cover on Autobild? (Autoblog)

May 19th 2006 12:56PM The next M5 or the next 5 series? On the front it says "The Next 5" not "The Next M5", and why would they go back to two tailpipes coming from a V10? Makes no sense at all, get your speculative facts straight...

Also, you guys are a day late and a dollar short as usual: Left Lane News had this up yesterday: http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/05/18/will-the-next-bmw-5-series-look-like-this/

The scoop on the BMW 3-series coupe (Autoblog)

Apr 20th 2006 11:20AM In the US the 325i has the same 3.0 liter engine the 330i has, so are you saying that the *new* 325i will have a 2.5 liter, or are you just making up the specs or take them from other sites like you guys usually do? Scoop my ass, this was over at Left Lane News the past few days.

Web 2.0/AJAX nonsense--make it stop!!! (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Mar 9th 2006 9:40AM I totally agree Jason, all these startups that have no plan to make money shouldn't be companies in the first place.... they should still just be "side projects" people work on while they actually pull down revenues/cash from something else.

Creative-Weblogging: What a bunch of thieves (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Nov 3rd 2005 9:36PM Jason- Funny you just blogged about this. I sent a semi-nasty email to Trosten (or however you spell his name) today about how they ripped off your site, complete with a screenshot. Haven't heard back again though... Way to point this out to everyone. Nothing pisses me off more than designs being ripped off since it's MY and every other designer's livelihood their f**king.