Archive for September, 2010

Adding Local Weather Conditions To Your App (Part 2/2: Accessing Google’s XML Weather API)

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In this Part 2 of ‘Adding Local Weather Conditions To Your App’, I’ll show you how to quickly add current temp, conditions, and today’s high / low temperature to your app.
If you’re lucky enough to already have the user’s zipcode or city and state, this should go very quickly for you. Otherwise, check out Part 1 (Integrating CoreLocation).
Let’s get started.
There are a handful of solid XML Weather APIs out there. The best one I’ve seen so …

September 29th, 2010 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE

iOS Developers Wanted!!

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We’re a bunch of solo programmers turned collective working on interesting projects, from internal initiatives, to some of the largest Mobile applications in the world. We are founders of iCodeblog.com, and are looking for new talent to add to our team.

September 21st, 2010 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Articles - View Comments READ MORE

Dealing with the Twitter Oauth-Apocalypse

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As many of you may have seen in recent weeks, Twitter changed its access policies and now requires OAuth from all third party applications that access Twitter user accounts. This is a large change from how many iPhone developers having been incorporating Twitter into their applications. What is OAuth exactly? How can iPhone developers get their apps up to date so they don’t break their Twitter incorporation? Well we have all the info you need to know about …

September 16th, 2010 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE

Join Me At The Voices That Matter iOS Dev Conference **Coupon Code**

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Learn from Industry Leaders Who Literally “Wrote the Books” on iOS Development

Coming to you direct from Addison-Wesley Professional, which has published some of the leading books in the field, the Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Conference is taking place October 16-17 in Philadelphia!

Take a look around at all the tech books you have on your physical and digital bookshelves. If you’ve been developing for the Mac, the iPhone and the iPad – chances are good that you rely on books by Steve Kochan, Erica Sadun, Aaron Hillegass and Jeff LaMarche. Even more, you probably follow the Tweets and blogs of folks like Graham Lee, Mike Lee, Matt Long and Chris Adamson. Wouldn’t it be great to meet and learn from these thought-leaders in person? Now you can at the Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Conference!

September 13th, 2010 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Articles - View Comments READ MORE

iPhone Game Programming Series: Blackjack – Part 1: The Deck

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It has been quite some time since our last iPhone video game series and now we are ready to start a new one.  Given the success of our iTennis tutorial series, we will be following along the same line and create a game without using OpenGL ES.  If you are interested in OpenGL ES programming, check out Jeff Lamarche’s blog, he’s super rad. In this series we will be creating a simple Blackjack game with the following …

September 9th, 2010 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE

Adding Local Weather Conditions To Your App (Part 1/2: Implementing CoreLocation)

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Knowing the latitude and longitude of your users can open up all kinds of possibilities in your apps. In an upcoming post, we’ll be discussing how you can use your user’s location to determine their local weather conditions and forecast. But for now, we’re going to focus on Part 1 of this two part tutorial: CoreLocation.
Apple’s done a great job of abstracting GPS, Cellular Triangulation, and Wifi Access Point location lookups into CoreLocation; making it extremely easy to …

September 3rd, 2010 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE