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I’ve only been developing for iOS for a couple of weeks now, but it’s already obvious how ubiquitous the UITableView is in user interfaces. This makes sense. iPhone/Pad/Pod apps are often of the “list info and drill” variety, and the UITableView brings a lot of utility to the, um, table for lists, and even for [...]

Today I ran into a memory error in the iOS application I am working on. The event had special significance for me because I think Clinton was president the last time I saw an actual access violation. C# .NET programmers enjoy the benefits of a managed execution environment, and we don’t see those things much [...]

Well, I may have been a little premature in my post below on using port forwarding to connect a remote client to the Visual Studio development web server. When I tested the approach my app was able to connect and begin a request, but there was a database problem that was masking the result, and [...]

The integrated development web server in Visual Studio is a handy tool. Since its introduction developers of ASP.NET web applications and web services have been able to build and test their code locally, without having to take the post-build step of publishing to an IIS server first. A nice tool, but a slightly crippled one. Presumably because Microsoft [...]

After a couple of years of Silverlight and WPF/WCF development on .NET I got handed a nice new assignment the other day, along with some shiny new toys. The job is to complete a partially-implemented iPhone/iPod app, which requires coming to terms with a few technologies that are new to me, namely Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, [...]