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The home of Windows is now, ironically, the home of the world’s first course for iPhone development certification. The University of Washington is offering a professional certification program consisting of three classes to help students obtain a good base in becoming solid developers. Despite Stanford University’s decision to make their… Continue Reading »

After the WWDC announcements last week, there is a lot to be excited about when it comes to developing for the iPhone. One thing that can potentially help applications run smoother and faster (especially when it comes to networking on the iPhone) is threading. Threading allows developers to run two… Continue Reading »

Last week, we talked about frameworks in relation to developing for the iPhone. With iPhone OS 3.0, Apple has updated and added many frameworks, as well as other interesting tidbits for iPhone developers. For instance, push notifications will now be included into the operating systems and will allow developers to… Continue Reading »

A while back, we were discussing memory management and how that works when developing for the iPhone. This time, I will be talking about frameworks, which contain code that can make programming something easier, but isn’t necessarily needed in every program. Continue Reading »

After discussing iPhone file types last week, we can move on to memory management. On the current version of the iPhone, there is only 128MB of RAM, which is far lower than the usual 2+GB we see on desktop and laptop Macs. iPhone developers must keep this in mind when… Continue Reading »

Now that we’ve got beta testing out of the way, we can discuss the different file types found in XCode. When starting a new project, XCode allows developers to choose from a variety of different starting points for their applications. For iPhone developing, some of the options include Navigation Controller… Continue Reading »

If you’re like me, you absolutely love coding the back end to apps, but you have very little design sense. To me, the fun lies in solving the problem, not necessarily in making a great interface (although I do know that it is just as important as the back end).… Continue Reading »

Hey everyone, I would like to announce the first post of a new weekly column I will be starting called iPhone Developer Intervention. This column will be mostly dedicated towards anything related to the iPhone SDK or developing for the iPhone as well as programming ideas in general. Through my… Continue Reading »

Stanford University, which has quite the collection of free content available on iTunes U, will soon be beginning their iPhone Application Programming course. This course, which will cover Cocoa programming for the Mac as well as a plethora of other coding practices, will have the content and videos up a… Continue Reading »

I am currently in the process of developing my own application for the iTunes App Store. Well, I guess you could say I am finished and waiting with eager anticipation for Apple to accept it. However, while that’s going on over in Cupertino, I though I’d share some of my… Continue Reading »