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Notes on iPhone development, Linux, Django and infrastructure, written between 2008 and 2016.
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Bash Command Logger with Curl Support
Tweet There is a great project called Bash Paranoia. Right now their site is busted so I can’t link to it. Its a patch that applies to bash that allows commands to be logged to syslog. I basically took this one …
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View Images like Photos.app
Tweet Make sure you have JSON Framework installed first. This is a continuation of Using threads for a JSON request So right now we have four rows in our table. Each row has a image. So what if we want to view all the …
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Add a Wiggle
Tweet This will be a continuation of Multiple Objects and UITouch If you do a long touch in the main section of the iPhone on a icon you will notice the icons will wiggle. This shows the user they can be deleted or …
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Multiple Objects and UITouch
Tweet Here is a bit of a continuation of Working with UITouch Please follow that tutorial first. We will be using the source code from that as our starting point. So once you have the source code in Xcode open up …
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Access the Address Book
Tweet I got a request on how do I access the address book in the iPhone. So I took around 30 minutes to learn how and here is how we will do it. First create a new View-Based Application and call it …
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Working with UITouch
Tweet So here is a quick post on how to work with a UITouch. This tutorial will put a UIImageView on a view and then when you touch around the image view will be placed where you touch. So lets start out by creating a …
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Change background of a UITableViewCell
Tweet I was asked this question by a co-worker on how to do this. My first answer was when you init the cell just set the backgroundColor but that did not work at all. If you followed my other tutorials and have a …
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Post a UIImage to the web
Tweet So here is something a lot of people have been wondering to do in the forums. How do I take a UIImage or any image and post it to a website. So this will go over how to do that. There are two ways to tackle this …
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Post JSON to a webservice
Tweet Make sure you have JSON Framework installed first. This is a continuation of UIImageView in a custom cell Here is a simple little code snippet on how to post some JSON to a webservice. NSString *requestString = …
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Using a UIImagePickerController
Tweet Apple allows you great access into the images you have taken with your camera or saved on the phone via Safari or such. It also allows you to load up the camera very easily in your code to take pictures from your …