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• Great tool for iPhone Mockups March 11, 2010
  Used OmniGraffle to produce mockups for my latest iPhone project, its pretty easy yo use and there are a number of good stencils that allow for most of the UI Kit controls and even the iPad! Social Bookmarking […]
• Mac OS free XML Editor March 2, 2010
  Found a really useful XML editor that runs on the Mac, XML Spear Social Bookmarking […]
• Objective C documentation generation March 2, 2010
  Found a useful tool Doxygen that will scan through your source code and generate documentation in an HTML format. Social Bookmarking […]
• VS2005 ASP.Net not stopping on breakpoints February 23, 2010
  If you have IE 8 installed and your ASP.Net project won’t stop on the breakpoints you’ve set they you probably need to read this article You basically need to add an entry to your registry to stop process growth for tabs. I’ve copied the steps required below 1) Open RegEdit 2) Browse to HKEY_LOCALMACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> [...] […]
• SVN, pbxuser and Xcode February 23, 2010
  UPDATE: unfortunately this only works for new projects! Recently needed to change the way svn dealt with pbxuser files, found the following article that shows you how to tell svn to ignore certain files, but before I could do anything I had to be able to see the “hidden” svn folder where this article came in [...] […]
• Programmatically Exit iPhone App February 22, 2010
  To terminate your app from within your code execute the following command… exit(0); Social Bookmarking […]
• UIAlertView with UITextField – REJECT February 18, 2010
  A project I’m working on contains an alert that uses the addTextFieldWithValue:label: private API, this approach has been popular/recommended by a number of developers/blogs, but now that Apple have their automated checking for Private API’s any apps using this technique will be rejected…. “3.3.1 Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescr […]
• XCode SCM column in Xcode project treeview February 17, 2010
  If you can’t see the column to the left of project files that shows the SVN status of a file, right-click the “Groups & files” title and select SCM Social Bookmarking […]
• __MyCompanyName__ February 17, 2010
  The template that creates your .h and .m files within Xcode by default sets the company name to __MyCompanyName__ To correct perform the following… 1) Start up the program Terminal Utilities/Terminal 2) Enter the following where XXXXXXXXXXXXX is what you want to appear in place of __MyCompanyName__: defaults write com.apple.Xcode PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefini […]
• Finding Build Errors February 17, 2010
  To quickly jump to build errors within your iPhone app, use the short cut combo of ⌘= Social Bookmarking […]