Playing with Radiance
ColdFusion, iPhone SDK, Cocoa Touch, Flex, AIR, PHP, and Food. Yup… I’m all over the place…

Jul
23

As we start experimenting more with ColdFusion Builder we realize how set in our ways we have become.  For instance, I have trouble finding my really distinguishing my comments at a glance from the rest of my code unless they are highlighted a little.  Probably all the years I spent in Dreamweaver’s code view after my silent protest of CFEclipse’s clunkiness.

When I tried updating the background colors of comments, I found this feature was left out of the UI.  Well, with a very little amount of XML work, and the helpful tips given by the CF Builder Team’s Sandeep Paliwal, I was able to fix this issue and get back to being the comment master that I always have been… whatever… anyways, it helped is what I’m saying.

[Sandeep Paliwal’s Blog]

Apr
22

Always looking for free icons and images to help me get past the visual styling of my application and work on the meat and potatos until I have everything done.  Here’s a great set of transparent PNGs for the iPhone:

[iPhone Buzz: Free iPhone Toolbar Icons for Developers]

Apr
14

Fantastic article outlining different ways to work with events in Prototype

AlternateIdea: Working With Events In Prototype.

Apr
08

Ok, so I spent about 3 hours today trying to find a decent set of instructions on how to setup ColdFusion for IIS7 under Vista.  It turned out all I was missing was the installation of a few components for IIS7, specifically:

  • IIS Metabase and IIS6 configuration compatibility
  • ISAPI Extensions
  • ISAPI Filters

I found this information on Dale Fraser’s blog here, in case anyone else needs this info (or I do after I reformat again…).

Mar
19

How to consume a JSON web service from the iPhone.  As a web developer, this is exactly how I’d like to transmit data to and from the iPhone from my web server.

Tutorial: JSON Over HTTP On The iPhone.

Mar
19

Great article about adding a background image to your grouped table view.

How To Add A Nice Background Image To Your Grouped Table View | How to Make iPhone Apps.

Yea, I know I pretty much restated the stupid subject line.  Whatever, everyone’s heading off to Olive Garden for lunch and I didn’t want to forget to post this up there and didn’t have something unique to restate someone else’s post.  HA!

Mar
19

Some great instructions on how to setup a Splash Screen for your application.

iCodeBlog » Blog Archive » iPhone Game Programming Tutorial Part 3 – Splash Screen.

Mar
18

I haven’t tried this yet, but I’m posting it so I don’t forget to give it a shot.  This is a library available for use that allows image processing within Objective-C.

simple-iphone-image-processing – Google Code.

Mar
17

Now this is something I need to check out when I get a minute.  The basic premise of PhoneGap is that you use  HTML and JavaScript to write applications for the iPhone.  It exposes core features of the iPhone such as geolocation, the accelerometer, sound and vibration (I can’t even write that word without wanting to make a stupid joke… damn I’m a 10 year old…)

For more info:  PhoneGap | Cross platform mobile framework.

Mar
14

Jeff Lamarche over at iPhoneDevelopment put together 1 and a half screen casts on using the XCode debugger.  Not a lot new here about general debugging, but I did pick up a few things on XCode’s personal take on the debugger that I didn’t know about.  I say 1 and a half screen casts because it looks like he forgot something in the first one so he created a second one as an addendum.