Ramblings

I have been checking out android in the past few days:

http://www.xtensivearts.com

Some nice beginner tutorials here.

C++ Objective-C integrationSo I searched for a while about how to use C++ classes in an objective C project and with the iPhone. I couldn’t find a good tutorial or anything so I am adding this so I can remember how I did it (or anyone else can).

First, this is a very simple demo but take from it what you will. This isn’t meant to be a tutorial as much as a reference guide. So if you don’t know how to do one of the steps there are MANY tutorials that will guide you through the set up process.

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So these two thirty something developers have come up with a series of tutorials that are really cool. You can check them all out here:
http://www.71squared.com/iphone-tutorials/

As of this post there are 10 tutorials, and they go through the process of creating an iPhone game with the OpenGL:ES framework. While it is all fun and good to use Cocos2d and so simple, there are fundamental aspects of that engine that people should understand before using it.

I have found some really cool applications that I have started using at work to make my workflow smoother. One is called fluid. Fluid is a cool little browser program. They say it is a Site Specific Browser (SSB), and what it does is wrap safari in basically a container to keep it from accessing other websites. So facebook cant see that you have amazon open and make adds on the facebook page about what your looking at on amazon. HOWEVER, the cool thing that this app does is allow you to add these SSBs to your menu bar at the top of OS X.

That little icon on the far right side is a SSB I created that links to the reference page for the cocoa2d game engine. So rather than open a new browser and go to the page I can just click that icon and there is the documentation. Like so:

The other app I have started to use today is called “GeekTool” It allows you to run the display of any unix shell command on your desktop. This includes everything from the time, to any script you write… Anything. It also has features for the system log, and a picture from the web. Frances Comugnai has a really cool post on his site about what you can do with it. A def must.

http://iPhoneIncubator.com/blog/tutorial/display-a-meaningful-name-under-your-app-icon

The guys over at iphone incubator have a post up about changing the name under your iphone app.

There are three ways to save data on the iPhone. 1 is a text file that you save to the sandbox and read from, the other is a .plist file (same basic idea only with a special extension.. Basically an xml file). The last is SQLite, the most powerful and versatile way. This tutorial will walk you through all the ways to create a sql lite app.

http://icodeblog.com/2008/08/19/iphone-programming-tutorial-creating-a-todo-list-using-sqlite-part-1/

So Keith Peters over at bit-101 has a cool post about creating iPhone light versions.

http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2098

So I found this cool site Academic Earth. Basically they have created a site where some of the best universities around offer their basic classes in a lot of degrees for free via movies. There is someone in the class with a camera recording all the lectures. They post notes from the lectures and the slides from that day all up for free. The computer science section was cool, a great reference.

From their website:

Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.