bit-ly-rest-api-objective-c Introduction Of late, many programmers who develop for Windows/Linux have moved to iPhone because of it's runaway success. Among the most successful apps on the Apple AppStore, first comes games (yeah I can hear you, fart apps!!!). Next comes apps like Tweetie and others those consume a web service (REST or otherwise). Games are pretty difficult get started especially if you aren't a game programmer. However,...

If you were following my tweets, you might be knowing that I got a invitation from Microsoft to test Microsoft Office 2010. Invitation to test Microsoft Office 2010 Yeah, From the screen shot it should be evident that I’m using a mac now. I testing Office 2010 by installing it on my Windows 7 Virtual Box image. Being a usability guy myself, In this article, I will primarily focus on usability aspects of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and...

OK, many of the programmers would have been confused as how to design a dialog on your website. In what order should the dialog contain the OK and Cancel Buttons? Should it be OK – Cancel like Windows or Cancel – OK like the Mac? Are there any “rule of thumb” why a certain standard should be followed? Or is it just a matter of taste? Firstly Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines state that, rather than OK or...

Sending an email from your iPhone application is something which you normally want to do it asynchronously. But unfortunately, prior to iPhone 3.0, the only way to send email was using mailto:// url format. i.e, [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: @"mailto:john.appleseed@apple.com"]; The technique was clumsy for one reason. It quits your app and launches mail. To our rescue, comes in-app email. In-App...

codeproject Everyone knows SVN (Subversions) is the best version control tool on the planet. XCode, though, might not be as great as eclipse or Visual Studio, it offers one of the best integration with open platforms than both eclipse and Visual Studio. Apple scripting and XCode makes XCode even more powerful. In fact you can set up keyboard shortcuts to directly search the selected function name or keyword on Google or Apple Docs....

codeproject Well, this is my first post in this technology series. In fact, the title of this post, forced me to start of a technology focussed blog. Well said about all these, let’s now jump into the issue. There has been a lot of heated discussion on different forums, newsgroups, and various other threads about the above topic. Now why should I discuss about the same again here? Well, though there are many discussion groups that...