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!
