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iPhone development, part 2

A few weeks after my first post regarding iPhone app development, I’m slowly being driven more inane with the entire process. I’ve found my feet with Obj-C, but there are new headaches to contend with…

Earlier articles

• iPhone app development - a noob’s perspective

  I get the feeling that many who come to Objective-C find it a difficult language. This may be due in part to the App store bandwagon - if which I admit to being a member - but I can't help but view the language as, well, annoyingly constructed.

• sIFR height issue

  Even though sIFR 3 has been out for ages, there are still a lot of folks using version 2. It still works quite nicely, but yesterday I came across a very strange bug that, as far as I can tell, derives from Flash rather than the sIFR code.

• 3rd parties and authentication

  Do the benefits of an OAuth-style authentication system outweigh the cost to the user experience?

• 3 things I learned today…

  all of which probably should have been blatantly obvious.

• Stored formulae with MySQL

  Utilise MySQL's SUBSTRING_INDEX function to operate on stored values.

• Laziness

  Even if you don’t do any programming, you can probably recall messages from an interface of some kind - whether that’s on the web, in a game, on an ATM display - that reads along the lines of: “You have 1 widgets(s) available!”