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,...

A 404 Error page usually informs visitors that something they were looking for is not found. I wanted to create a useful 404 error page for my blog and site. If it is only for a blog, I would have done with a multitude of plugins available for WordPress like smart 404, AskApache’s Google 404. A quick search for “404″ in wordpress extension site will reveal atleast 6 pages of extensions. But much to my bad luck, they...

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....

How to make your UITableView scroll fast? The iPhone’s GPU struggles to render blended views. Here, Tweetie’s Loren Brichter explains how Tweetie’s UITableView scrolls smoothly on iPhone. He uses a custom drawn UITableViewCell that “pre-renders” the whole thing… The blog entry is here… http://blog.atebits.com/2008/12/fast-scrolling-in-tweetie-with-uitableview/ If it’s slow, try it’s...

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...