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Windows Phone 7 Series, Initial Developer Impressions

Thu 18 Mar 10 9:08 A GMT-05
With MIX 2010 just barely a few hours behind us, I've decide to share my thoughts on the new WP7 from a development perspective of someone who has been writing iPhone apps for the last 6 months.

Would you like to touch my mono?

Mon 23 Nov 09 9:59 A GMT-05
In this blog post I'll be talking about my experience writing some iPhone code using Monotouch and comparing that with my experience writing native iPhone code using Objective-C and Cocoa - is Monotouch better, faster, or more productive?

Apple drops the iPhone NDA for Released Software

Wed 01 Oct 08 10:54 A GMT-05
In case you hadn't yet heard, Apple has dropped the NDA for the iPhone which allows us to now discuss openly all aspects of iPhone programming for released versions of the SDK

Cappuccino, Objective-J, and You

Wed 10 Sep 08 1:14 P GMT-05
This blog post takes a look at Cappuccino, Objective-J, and what they might mean to you as a web application developer

So I'm in the LA Times ;)

Wed 27 Aug 08 9:51 A GMT-05
The LA Times recently ran an article covering the slant that the iPhone SDK NDA is hampering development and stifling programmers. I was quoted in the article

MobileMe vs. Live Mesh Throwdown - Round 1

Wed 16 Jul 08 5:33 A GMT-05
To someone in my position, who follows both Microsoft (.NET) news and Apple (Cocoa) news, the comparing and contrasting between MobileMe and Live Mesh as developer platforms is inevitable. Here's my first stab at a comparison

How to upset someone you admire with one blog post

Thu 10 Jul 08 5:46 A GMT-05
I recently posted a blog about consuming a POX service with Cocoa. At the same time I managed to upset someone that I admire. This is what happens when bloggers don't have copy editors!

Another Microsoft Developer Falls Victim to Framework Myopia

Tue 08 Jul 08 7:16 A GMT-05
Recently a Microsoft developer posted a blog entry detailing a very negative experience he had with the iPhone SDK, Cocoa, and Xcode. MS developers allowing their first impression to taint their view of Mac programming is common, but easily corrected

Consuming an ASP.NET MVC POX Service from Cocoa

Mon 30 Jun 08 9:39 A GMT-05
In this blog post I'll take a look at the Objective-C/Cocoa code required to consume a POX service hosted by an ASP.NET MVC application.

Building Model Classes in C# and Cocoa

Sun 15 Jun 08 10:13 A GMT-05
An extremely common thing that everyone has to do is build simple model objects. The problem is, everyone's documentation varies. This post shows C# developers how to build a Cocoa model object in a way they're familiar with

Objective-C 2.0's Accessor Dot-Notation : Friend or Foe?

Tue 03 Jun 08 5:29 A GMT-05
I've been reading Aaron Hillegass' new third edition of the ultra-popular Cocoa Programming book and he mentions that the dot notation is 'silly'. These are my thoughts on the subject

Leopard Code Sample : Sprinkling in some Bonjour

Tue 27 Nov 07 9:32 A GMT-05
In a previous code sample I showed how to use the new NSCollectionView in Leopard. Now, I'm going to expand my previous sample so it detects nearby instances of itself using Bonjour

Leopard Sample: A Bound NSCollectionView

Sun 28 Oct 07 8:41 P GMT-05
In this blog post I take a look at a new control that shipped with Leopard, the NSCollectionView. I'll show you how to bind the NSCollectionView to the data supplied by an array controller and bind controls on each sub-view.

Leopard is out - let the code samples begin!

Fri 26 Oct 07 5:09 A GMT-05
Now that Leopard is finally released, developers can start sharing their code samples. What kind of samples do you want to see?

Instantiating and Manipulating Classes at Runtime in C# and Objective-C

Thu 26 Jul 07 8:16 A GMT-05
I've been working on some code where I needed to create an instance of a class at runtime based on the string name of the class. I knew how to do it in .NET, so I tried it out in Cocoa and I was pleasantly surprised.

Microsoft Codename Acropolis - Unwrapped

Wed 20 Jun 07 10:22 A GMT-05
In this post I take a look at Acropolis - what it is and why should developers be concerned about it. Also, I compare it to some offerings on OS X to help clear things up.

Roughly Drafted has a review of my WWDC session up

Tue 19 Jun 07 9:03 P GMT-05
Roughly drafted has done a review of the presentation I gave during the WWDC

The dreaded language bleed-over has begun

Tue 19 Jun 07 1:23 P GMT-05
I have started injecting Objective-C syntax into my C# code without thinking about it... a sure sign that I'm hooked.

What does a WWDC 2007 Attendee do with 1.5 hours of downtime?

Thu 14 Jun 07 5:29 P GMT-05
What does a WWDC 2007 Attendee do with 1.5 hours of downtime? Why, build a dynamic peer-to-peer chat application in Cocoa, of course!

Exploring the Delegate Design Pattern

Mon 14 May 07 1:30 P GMT-05
I first encountered the delegate design pattern when learning Cocoa, but I have found that its use has actually made some Windows Vista (WPF) programming tasks easier as well!

Core Data - Almost too Easy?

Wed 18 Apr 07 9:23 A GMT-05
Recently I tried to do some binding of data in a table view to Core Data entities, and found the experience extremely pleasant. Start to finish took me 18 minutes.

Distributed Objects and Bonjour : It's like Peanut Butter and Chocolate!

Fri 13 Apr 07 11:05 A GMT-05
The combination of using Distributed Objects and Bonjour in Cocoa is as sweet as combining Peanut Butter and Chocolate. A peanut butter cup of coding joy.

Exploring the MVC Pattern in WPF

Tue 10 Apr 07 7:51 A GMT-05
In a previous article I explored a comparison between VS 2005 and the Xcode/Interface Builder IDEs. In this article, I explore implementing the MVC pattern in WPF applications

Does Objective-C need Namespaces?

Wed 28 Mar 07 10:03 A GMT-05
In writing the small amount of Objective-C code that I have written so far, one thing has struck me as missing : namespaces.

An experience with the Leopard beta

Mon 26 Mar 07 2:45 P GMT-05
I've had experience beta testing every single .NET Framework release, as well as Vista, Longhorn (before it was Vista), and Win2k3 "R2", and now i've had an incredible experience beta testing OSX Leopard.