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Xcode 4 Preview 2 Now Available

For those of you fellow iPad and iPhone developers out there, a preview version of Xcode 4 has been released. I'm personally looking forward to the integrated single window in the IDE, as opposed to multiple separate applications, the enhanced debugger, and enhanced code editing and navigation tools. Not to mention, the faster LLVM 2.0 compiler.

Making an O'Reilly RSS iPhone App with TapLynx

There has been an explosion of interest in creating content for the iPhone in the past couple of years, and recently, a corresponding rush of libraries and frameworks to make building iPhone apps easier for those of us who are not experts in Objective-C and Cocoa Touch. Some of these libraries are targeted at web designers, some at programmers.

Developing iPhone Apps Requires Xcode on the Mac

I've had a few questions about the software I used in my previous screencasts. I created the app using Xcode for the Mac. Xcode is a developer tool, and if you want to develop iPhone apps, you'll need to download both Xcode and the iPhone SDK.

OS X Tip: Opening header files from the command line

Want a quick tip about searching for header files from the command line? Here's a how-to you can use.

iPhone Dev: IOKit - The Missing Public Framework

A lot of fuss has been made about Apple's public and private frameworks. Did you know that there's actually a public framework that you're not allowed to use? Here are the facts.

RubyCocoa and NSTables De-Mystified

Screencast showing how to create a RubyCocoa application which pulls search results from Amazon using their Web API and populates a table.

The Tools of the Trade

In which I try not to gripe about the NDA (gripe-worthy though it may be) and instead look for answers to more basic questions about iPhone development and it's roots in OS X tools.