Heartland Developers Conference

Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by andy in Events

The Heartland Developers Conference is a premier developers conference that happens every October at the QWest Center in Omaha, NE.  This year the event is October 15 and 16.  Every event up to this year has been focused on Microsoft technologies for Microsoft peoples.  Luckily Joe Olsen (who puts the event together) opened it up [...]

iPhone Web Development Presentation

Posted on 04. Jun, 2009 by andy in Ruby on Rails

Thanks to everyone who came out to the presentation last night about web development for the iPhone. I think everyone go something out of the topics last night. Hopefully more and more web developers will take the entire “next generation” mobile platform more seriously. As it’s becoming more and more of a necessity as having a great working desktop app/website.

Omaha Ruby on Rails user group talk

Posted on 22. May, 2009 by andy in Ruby on Rails

Come and join me June 3rd, 2009 at the Omaha Ruby on Rails Usergroup session. There will be pizza, soda and lots of fun talking about web development for the iPhone; specifically in the world of Ruby on Rails.

Latest Apple rejection message

Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by andy in Apps, iPhone Development

I submitted Redneck Jokes for an update. After a week in the apple review process, I got a response. It wasn’t great…

XCode and iPhone CodeSign Error quick solution

Posted on 11. Apr, 2009 by andy in How\'d you do that?, iPhone Development

“CodeSign error: a valid provisioning profile is required for product
type ‘Application’ in SDK ‘Device – iPhone OS 2.2.1″
I hate that build error because I have seen it so many times in the last week or two.  I think every now and then I access my iPhone projects using the pre-release XCode/iPhone SDK which causes the [...]

iPhone Device Identifier Number

Posted on 09. Mar, 2009 by andy in iPhone Development

A walkthrough on retrieving your iPhone or iPod Touch’s Identifier number. This number is needed to load beta applications intended for the App Store on your device manually.

Learning to build iPhone apps

Posted on 29. Jan, 2009 by andy in iPhone Development

I have been programming with Cocoa and Objective-C for about three or four years now. Never did I consider myself beyond a novice. I just loved the idea of making applications for my beloved Macintosh. A few friends of mine (Dave and Eric) were really into making Mac apps too. Nothing ever materialized, but I learned a lot and had great fun building Mac apps.

Fast forward to last March of 2008. I like so many others, anxiously awaited the release of the public iPhone SDK. I was excited to see what it was all about and proceded to download the SDK and XCode. Once I bought my first iPhone in July interested hit a all time high… I had to know more.