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• Image Handling and iPhone 4 Posted Friday, September 3, 2010 Jim Garretson 5 Comments

  Development for Apple’s iOS - the operating system running on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad - is a funny combination of wonderful and maddening. The platform’s native API, called Cocoa Touch, provides an app developer with an amazing combination of power and flexibility - and it’s been improving with each version. But the power and flexibility also come with a tradeoff: frameworks perform neat tricks, but at the cost of processing time and memory consumption. This is especially true when accessing a device’s camera, and especially true when accessing the camera on an iPhone 4, which returns huuuuge images.

   
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• Postcard Posted Friday, February 19, 2010 Jim Garretson 4 Comments

  

  Let’s continue the theme of Cool Stuff Week-related posts. Brendan’s told us about OpenSocial, Huan has compared Rails and Django, and I’m happy to talk now about one of my CSW projects. It’s a prototype iPhone app I’m calling Postcard, and I think it’s a big step towards addressing one of our customers’ most pressing problems.

   
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• Objective-C and Cocoa Touch Posted Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Huan Lai 1 Comment

  

  All development on the iPhone uses Objective-C on top of the Cocoa Touch framework. This project was my first experience using either Objective-C or Cocoa, having been mainly a Java guy for most of my life. After a good amount of time with it, I still have mixed feelings.

   
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