26 July 2011
We’re working on a location product right now and one of the little challenges along the way has been how to report background location updates back to our servers. First, some basics. We’re going to be using the Significant Location Changes feature introduced with iOS 4 as this is the recommended way of tracking the [...]
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26 April 2011
In the midst of debugging login issues with Novell’s iFolder, I stumbled over this post about a tool for accessing the FLAIM database that underpins the whole system. One of the problems is that the tool itself seems to have vanished from the trunk repository and so its existence was not at all obvious. There [...]
Posted in iFolder, iPhone Development0 Comments
26 April 2011
Today I’m going to put together a complete walk through for getting your very own iFolder server up and running on a virtual host on your Apple Mac. iFolder is notoriously difficult to install but thanks to Daniel Lench, there is now an excellent tutorial over on his blog. I’m taking it a tiny step [...]
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12 January 2011
UPDATE: The first release is now available in the app store. At the moment it’s US only but we expect to do a global release by the end of February 2011. We’ve just put the finishing touches to our iFolder for iPhone app and are recruiting enterprise beta testers who have their own iFolder installation. [...]
Posted in Development, Featured, iPhone, iPhone Development, News0 Comments
06 December 2010
In April 2010, Google made an announcement that they were including web page loading speed as a metric for page rank. This reiterates the importance of having strong technical skills to hand in achieving SEO. At the same time, Google offered a number of tools to help webmasters achieve faster page loading times. One of [...]
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21 July 2010
The recent launches of iPad and iPhone4 have led to a flurry of activity on the iPhone operating system front. iPad launched with iPhone OS 3.2 but this OS was never destined for iPhone itself. iPhone 4 has introduced another OS release, with a nameshift from ‘iPhone OS’ to ‘iOS’ 4. iPhone and iPod users [...]
Posted in Development, iPhone, iPhone Development, Objective-C0 Comments
02 June 2010
Objective-C and Cocoa Touch are strong on design patterns and principles. If you adhere to Apple’s way of coding then you’ll create reliable and reusable code. If you’re new to Objective-C, some of the design principles can be quite daunting and if your background is in other object oriented languages, some of the design patterns [...]
Posted in iPhone Development, Objective-C0 Comments
21 May 2010
When the iPhone was first launched, it didn’t launch with a marketplace for apps – indeed Apple didn’t even enable programmers to create applications for the platform at all. Quite quickly though, people worked out that you could create a web based application and style it specially to run in the iPhone screen. The Web [...]
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27 April 2010
At a basic level, boolean logic allows for a value to be either true or false, on or off, 1 or 0. The ways in which boolean types are implemented vary widely across languages and implementations. At the most granular level, computers work with bits that are either set to on or off, whereas some [...]
Posted in Development, iPhone Development, Objective-C2 Comments
16 April 2010
‘Google’ for KVO and bindings for iPhone, and too many results tell you that KVO is not supported on the iPhone platform. Well, if it wasn’t once, it is now, and it’s a really powerful feature. KVO is Key-Value Observing – essentially you can add have one object ‘observe’ changes to a property of another [...]
Posted in iPhone Development, Objective-C1 Comment
Successful iOS Background Location reporting
Viewing iFolder’s FLAIM store with StoreBrowser
iFolder on VirtualBox (part one)
iFolder for iPhone now available!
Liam: Really clear article, you are right about googling...
Roger: Hi Mike,
That is correct, the location services ...
Mike: Im running significant location changes in the bac...
Roger: Be careful of running location updates while in th...
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