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Indie+Relief : All Revenue Will Go to Haiti on Jan 20.

eric — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:20:26 +0000

In response to the earthquakes in Haiti, Second Gear Software and Garrett Murray have teamed up to create Indie+Relief – a group of iPhone and Mac developers giving to Haiti.

I was a bit late to the game, so I’m not officially listed, but will be participating. All revenue (minus Apple’s cut) from Humidor and MyGarden for January 20th will be given to Yéle Haiti, an organization created by musician Wyclef Jean to help Haiti’s children.

Over 130 other developers are participating. If you need some software, go buy it now!

Cheater, Cheater Pumpkin Eater (or “Cheaters Never Win”)

eric — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:04:28 +0000

… at least I hope they don’t.

Seriously people, why are you paying for reviews?

Color Me Crazy (or “When a Color Isn’t Just a Color”)

eric — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:04:47 +0000

Ever need to use an image as a background, but can’t figure out how? It’s quite simple — colors aren’t always colors:


UIImage *patternImage = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"patternImage" ofType:@"png"]];

[myView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage: patternImage]];

If I Had a Photograph of You (or “How to Cache Images in CocoaTouch”)

eric — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:44:44 +0000

A quick note. Wanting to cache images in an iPhone app? Load the image using:

[UIImage imageNamed:]

if you use:

[UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:]

the image will not be cached.

iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor

eric — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:36:04 +0000

This may come as a surprise to some of you, but debugging applications on the iPhone is no picnic. I know, crazy, isn’t it! It’s next to impossible to get the information you need from a customer’s device without building in some method to send the user’s preferences, data, etc. right into your application, which just seems messy.

Luckily another developer has created the iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor, which extracts all of the data for an application from the backups made by iTunes when you sync your device.

What a wonderful thing. Thank you, Pádraig.

MyGarden (or “Is There an App for My iPhone to Track the Things I’ve Planted?”)

eric — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:41:45 +0000

My first app for the Apple AppStore is finally in the queue waiting approval to appear in the AppStore. It’s called MyGarden, and keeps track of the things that you plant in your garden.

The iPhone SDK is out (or “What Eric is Doing in His Free Time”)

eric — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:19:46 +0000

If the title wasn’t enough to explain, Apple released a development kit for the iPhone / iPod Touch. In fact, the second beta release of it is out now. So my free time whatever that is) will be sucked up by learning Objective C and developing some apps for the iPhone, in addition to that world timeline website that I’ve been meaning to get off the ground.

iPhone / iPod Touch Firmware 1.1.4 Released

eric — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:34:24 +0000

Looks like Apple is preparing for the SDK release. Firmware 1.1.4 for the iPhone and iPod Touch was just released.