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I got a question on Twitter the other day about why I am using the StartMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges() feature of the CLLocationManager. I think this link on Apple's Developer site describes why this is significant . The important text for
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I was working on my iPhone app last night. It requires the features of iOS4. I found a weird behavior. When I ran my app in debug mode on a device, it ran properly. When I ran my app in release mode on a device, I was getting behavior like I was running
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You may have been hearing about the iOS Version 4 a lot. You probably have installed it onto your iPhone/iPod Touch devices. It's got a couple of cool features that I think are significant. One is the ability to run applications in the background.
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Now, we're 8-9 months down the road from my last posts on Windows Phone, Google Android, and the general mobile marketplace. Wow, how things have changed. First off, Google Android has really taken off in its number of units in the marketplace. While
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Software developers are creatures of extremes. They can love, love, love you one day, and hate, hate, hate you the next day. Right now, we're riding the crest of this love for MonoTouch. Well, we all must remember that Apple is a very interesting
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Are you a .NET Developer wanting to get into developing on the Apple iPhone and iPad? Learn iPhone Programming for Free with Wrox, Novell, and McClure. Wrox/Wiley has released Wallace McClure’s Wrox Blox on Novell’s MonoTouch for free. The MonoTouch Wrox
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If you missed my poem to MonoTouch this morning on Twitter , here's the full version: Oh MonoTouch, How do I love thee? Let me reference count the ways. I love thee to the depth and width and height of the threads I can run and my battery can reach,
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My frustration with Apple has been fairly well known. I've blogged about it numerous times over Section 3.3.1. http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2010/04/09/dear-apple-why-do-you-continue-to-give-me-the-big-middle-finger.aspx http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2010/04/12/why-i-feel-so-strongly-about-the-apple-sdk-issue.aspx
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Our MonoTouch Book is out. It was great working with Chris Hardy, Craig Dunn, Martin Bowling, and Rory Blyth on this book. With this book, you'll be able to use your existing knowledge of .NET to target the Apple iPhone. What .NET C# developers need
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Link to original post . Subscribe to Everything . Subscribe to WMV . Subscribe to M4V . Subscribe to MP3 . Download WMV . Download M4V . Download MOV . Download MP3 . Show Notes: Apple, Developers, and Licensing. Why Develop on the iPhone. What is Mono
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I've come to the conclusion that Apple won't change Section 3.3.1 of their new license. How can I come to that conclusion? There are several reasons for this. I think the reasons below are the major ones: Apple wants to keep their platform from
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It looks like we now know the cause of the iPhone SDK Licensing change is. According to AppleInsider, in a email discussion suppossedly with Steve Jobs , the quote is: .....,and said he believes there are a number of applications written with cross-platform
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If you follow my Twitter stream ,you know that I feel rather strongly about Apple's recent licensing changes in their iPhone 4.0 SDK . I'm going to do my best to explain why. History I used to work at The Coca-Cola Company. While there, I was
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I'm a developer. I've written code that runs on a number of different platforms. Over the past 15 years, I've specialized on the Microsoft, and specifically .NET, platform. I've watched the iPhone grow up over the past three years, and
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I'm heading off to the Orlando Code Camp this weekend. I'm leaving on a jet plane on Friday. I'm really excited about being a speaker. I'm hoping to meet up with a number of friends I haven't seen in a while. I'll be speaking on:
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