Monthly Archives: March 2012

Review of Mobile Design Pattern Gallery

Posted on March 29, 2012 by katzdoron

A quintessential catalogue for mobile developers, this is a no-frills systematic guide to common patterns. It tries to be device-neutral but does illustrate good and bad patterns on both droid and iOS devices in an easy to navigate and follow … Continue reading →

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Optimizing Connections to the Apple Push Notification Service

Posted on March 22, 2012 by katzdoron

Optimizing Connections to the Apple Push Notification Service iPhone Developer News The Apple Push Notification Service provides a high-speed, high-capacity interface, so you should establish and maintain an open connection to handle all your notifications. Connections that are repeatedly opened … Continue reading →

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Review of Publishing with iBooks Author .

Posted on March 9, 2012 by katzdoron

The recent iBooks Authoring tool released by Apple has given amateur book writers and enthusiasts a direct enablement to self-publish their own interactive books to Apple’s bookstore, in a similar way that developers have been given access to the app-store. Nellie McKesson … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to XCode 4.3 and solving the /Developer issue

Posted on March 2, 2012 by katzdoron

With the upgrade to XCode 4.3, one of the significant changes is that the /Developer folder is gone and instead bundled within the /Applications/XCode.app/ content bundle. One thing that you have to remember is that for the command-line tools (of which now you should be … Continue reading →

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Review of jQuery Mobile: Up and Running .

Posted on March 1, 2012 by katzdoron

This book does indeed seem like a pre-released even though it has alredy been published, but it feels a bit incomplete in many areas, which was the general gist I got from reading this book and comparing it to various … Continue reading →

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