As a .Net developer using a MacBook Pro as my development machine, I plan on using Windows 7 installed on a Boot Camp partition. That way I can either boot into Windows directly for maximum performance or use VMWare Fusion to get the best of both platforms. After a few initial days of work, I’ve [...]

Cocoa Touch added API for presenting a view controller in a popup bubble in iPhone OS 3.2, the responsible class is named UIPopoverController. One would guess that this new class is a subclass of UIViewController, just like UINavigationController is, but that is not the case. One would also guess that in functionality many ideas for [...]

A luxury that you seldom have in the world of software development is the luxury of starting over. I am not talking about throwing away everything and start from scratch. But just taking what you have, and all the experiences learned. Apply some major refactoring to make what works really shine, and without care of [...]

Regular expressions is a powerful tool for solving many problems related to text. It can be misused as any good tool, but there are moments when they are the best solution for a given problem. At those moments the lack of regular expressions for Cocoa on Mac OS X and Cocoa Touch on iPhone OS [...]

The new release of iPhone OS 3.0 adds some nice API:s for managing a contextual toolbar. This is well needed as toolbars in the current iteration of iPhone OS is not only poorly documented, it is also quite hard to do right. So I will go over how to do toolbars the right way, for [...]

Nishant wrote a good piece on why Apple continue to outdo it’s rivals, he used a variant of a quote by Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky to make his point: A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. This is true as [...]

Apple has arranged a world tour of iPhone Tech Talks, and in cold december it was Scandinavia’s turn and a crew of software evangelists from Apple turned up at KTH in Stockholm for a full day of sessions. The sessions are confidential so I will keep this post vague on the technical parts, not revealing [...]