One of more the exciting new features of the iPhone 3GS is its faster, more advanced graphics hardware and support of OpenGL ES 2.0. Unfortunately, Apple hasn’t provided much info at all about how to harness those new capabilities. They provide great documentation and sample code for most of their APIs, but somehow their samples […]

Rudi Farkas left this comment on my tutorial demonstrating how to use JSON over HTTP on the iPhone: I would like to get to the HTTP headers that accompanied the response to a query sent via NSURLRequest. This falls under the easy, but not obvious class of iPhone programming problems. Worthy of a quick post: […]

I’m self employed, work from home, and earn a living as a blogger. Consequently, I don’t have much of a work-life balance. I’m reading Feeling Good by David Burns to rectify this. It’s basically Getting Things Done meets Life Hacker for mental health. The book is brimming with, for lack of a better label, workflow/procedures/metrics/instrumentation […]

Seattle Beginning iPhone Programming Workshop: August 20-21.$1200 Only $799 with “mo” coupon code and early registration discount. When Google released their iPhone app last year it was accompanied with a bit of controversy: Their app used an undocumented API to detect when the phone had been placed next to the speaker’s ear. In iPhone 3.0 […]