The Objective-C runtime is a powerful beast. Often seen as “hacking”, it’s none of that: it’s the foundation of the platform. All your apps can benefit from it, from automating tedious tasks to generating user interfaces. I gave this talk to Cocoaheads Montreal to show the audience concrete examples of design patterns using the runtime. [...]
If designing a web API is hard, designing a mobile API is even harder. With heavy constraints such as bandwidth, latency and CPU power, developing a mobile API is a challenge for the service provider and the application developer. As mobile devices become ubiquitous and connected, offering the best user experience in mobile application is [...]
Everyday, at WhereCloud, our team connects virtually using Campfire from 37Signals. Campfire is a collaborative chat system that allows a group of users to share text messages, in addition to pictures and tweets, via a web interface. In retrospect, it’s interesting that we use a chatting system when everyone’s desk is no farther than a [...]
The latest model in the iPhone family: the iPhone 3GS (S for Speed) was introduced in a world launch on Friday June 18th, 2009. This new model, which we have acquired at WhereCloud, is much speedier than its predecessor thanks a to a new CPU and GPU chip. The 3GS also sports a new camera [...]
Being certified iPhone developers we had access to the Gold Master (GM) version of iPhone OS 3.0. And one of the feature we wanted to try right away was Internet Tethering. Despite some problems activating the features after having restored the iPhone to 3.0 — we called Rogers to see if it was on their [...]