I’m heading back to Sheffield tomorrow to get ready to move house again. This time into a house down the road with 4 other mates for the year. It’s going to be one hell of a year! But it now means learning another address, getting used to walking up the STEEP hill to get to the house, as well as sorting out all the billing details such as the gas, electricity, water, phone and broadband.. great.
Me and one other are moving in on the 1st ready to set up the house for when the other housemates join us a few days later. Hopefully we can make it a quick move in and get the old flat cleaned up fully for the next people who will be moving into their in September.
Until then, I’ve got a lot of work to do finding a job for the year as well as my iPhone/iPad/Web programming work.
Oh! And I’ve got to find a cool holiday to go on as well…
As something else to post on this blog, I thought I’d add some code help. Going through a number of questions on StackOverflow that’s reached a number of thousand views, I thought I’d post some of them up on here.
To set a text character limit in an NSTextField, the following code should be placed into your view controller and make sure NSTextField delegate is set to self.
-(BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string {
//limit the size :
int limit = 20;
return !([textField.text length]>limit && [string length] > range.length);
}
Finally, O2 decided to accept my claim and are replacing the iPhone on Tuesday I think is what the phone operator had said.
I really can’t suffice with this iPhone 3G… And can’t wait to be back on Multitasking with iOS 4.0. Oh, and back onto normal 4.0 development with things such as in-app development and Apple’s iAds.
Something I’ve found pretty cool with the new iOS 4.0 is the multitasking coding. Firstly, keep the code exactly the same from a 3.x app and just compiling it for iOS 4.0 works some cool things to the app.
For example, if I build the app for 3.x.x and install it on an iOS 4.0 device, the multitasking doesn’t work too great. I leave the app, come back and it loads back from the beginning.
If I then build it for 4.0 and install it on the device, then when I load up the app and switch to another, the app comes back to the same place as I left it exactly. I was loading a profile on the Twitter app, and switched to read a text for a second to Messages.app, when I came back to the Twitter app, the profile had loaded. Also, also when I quit the app to the homescreen, and load it back home from the homescreen icon, it comes back to where i left it, AGAIN 
Anyway, my point is that keeping the code the same and just building it for iOS 4.0 means that some multitasking works already for the app without the need to code for certain actions from the user.
All the details are out and iOS 4.0 is in GM meaning that it is in it’s final stages before a public release. I’ve been browsing through the code and getting ready to make some OS 4.0 compatible applications! The latest SDK is being downloading and documents are being read.
I can’t wait to dive into the new available API’s and working with the latest hardware such as the front facing camera, gyro and more!
Currently still working on Tweeterena to make it 4.0 compatible with iAds in the free version and then I’ll be working on including multitasking capabilities. Should be a fun experience learning the new OS.
Other than that, I’m also working on a new game for the iPhone and iPad with @TallGuyRob who’s also going through the latest code so we are both on top of the new API’s etc.
We should be coming up with a private beta soon and some screenshots/video to put up on TerraCoding.
Oh, and TerraCoding will also be updated very soon with the latest projects uploaded to the Apps section and some more cool features to the site.
One more thing… We will soon be bringing out a Mac OS X application, yet we can’t give any details away just yet 
Hello everyone! Now exams have finished and I’ve got a LOT of free time, I’ve been mainly catching up with mates and also playing this game called “Heroes of Newerth”. Much like DotA and very fun game when playing with mates.
You can catch me on it at: Domness
Also, my website is starting a HoN clan and we also have a teamspeak and forums, so feel free to join us on there.
Only a few more weeks until I move into my new house with my mates! It should be a great experience. I’m going to move in on day one and get my workstation set up nicely. I’ve got to move my CDJ’s, Xbox, monitor, Mac and all of that Once the internet is set up, I’ll have a 4 month summer to get on with whatever — This is probably going to mean a LOT of iPhone and iPad dev work! So can’t wait to get a few projects underway. Also, I’ll be getting more into web dev and will probably set up my website a lot better as well as get some music production on the go! I’m thinking about making a cool mix CD and also producing a few tracks on Logic Pro etc. Should be a fun summer!
Just posting to say I’ve now got WordPress.app on my iPad and should be creating some random posts on here from it
Hey! Okay I’ve been spending a lot of time getting fit the past few weeks. And it only occurred to me that I lost 2.5kg in a week… Now I don’t really know how much that is worth in the long run, but I’m going to post up my fitness routine, my diet etc so you can all see how I am working. Maybe post comments to how you think I could improve?
I’ll update this post with my routine shortly.
This is another blog post to say I’m very sorry for the lack of posts on here!
As I get more and more work I find less and less time to sit and post on this blog. However, I’m deciding to go forth and still update it.
I’ve got a few things I’d like to announce whilst I make this post:
iPhone & iPad Development
iPhone and iPad development is going well! I’ve been spending a lot of time on this, and as I’ve still not got an iPad (UK) I will be getting one as soon as they arrive to the UK. This will probably mean I’ll start creating some cool personal apps to go out to the public. I’ve got a number of ideas already and a whole app I’ve got in my mind could be done simply by porting the code for another language I’ve been coding in for some side projects. This shouldn’t take long and most of the time will be spent fixing the UI and making it “look nice” and “feel good” to play with.
About the iPhone, again the project that I can port to the iPad will probably be ported to a similar iPhone app as well. This should just be a fun little project to keep my coding skills brushed up. Another major project is currently on the go on a Twitter app and this should be a great release, built from the ground up using all the latest Twitter technologies from geo-tagging to many other cool features like updating your profile and profile image.
Other Development
In other technologies, I’ve been doing a LOT of work with Java and I’m at the point where I can start looking into Android development and also Java applets.
I’ve also learnt a lot about PHP and MySQL and should be close to the point where I could probably created my own Forums etc. This is exciting news and could lead to a new web dev project.
University
At university I’m now approaching my last exams of the year. Also many many assignments are due in the next week or so and I’m frantically trying to get them done along with lots of revision to make sure I pass the year. On the happy side, I’ve got my new house I’m moving into at the beginning of July
