Archive for September, 2011

Dynamically Controlling Your Application From The Web

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Often times you find yourself in a situation where you might want to control your application remotely. You may want to enable/disable features at a certain time, push messages to all of your users, or do some cross promotion whenever you launch a new application. All of this can easily be done with a little JSON and some simple web interface coding.

 
In this tutorial, I will show you how to use ASIHTTPRequest along with JSONKIT to fetch, parse, …

September 30th, 2011 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE

Join Us At The Voices That Matter iOS Conference + Promo Code

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For the past few years, I have been attending a fantastic conference put on by Pearson Education. The conference is called Voices That Matter. It’s a 2 day event (3 if you do the additional workshops), where you will learn about cutting edge iOS development from many of the leaders in the space.
Well, this year is no different, and on November 12th, Pearson will be putting on another one of these conferences at the Harvard Medical Center in Boston. …

September 28th, 2011 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Articles - View Comments READ MORE

Timing Out An Application Due To Inactivity

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In the recent months, I have had a few separate applications that required a “timeout”. What I mean by this is, the application should log the user out if they haven’t touched the screen in X number of minutes. There are quite a few uses for this, but the best use is when you have an application that contains sensitive data in a shared environment.
For example, say your company uses iPads to collect feedback from your …

September 19th, 2011 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE