Development rants

[hameteman]

Dierenpark Amersfoort, a set on Flickr.

[hameteman]

KPN heeft aangekondigd dat het voor iPhone- en Android-toestellen een applicatie zal uitbrengen waarmee smartphonegebruikers kunnen meten hoeveel dataverkeer zij verstoken. [...]

KPN heeft ook aangekondigd dat het voor iPhone- en Android-toestellen de 'KPN MB Meter'-applicatie zal uitbrengen. Voor Android-telefoons is deze al verkrijgbaar, maar de app voor iOS komt pas eind september. Via deze app zou een abonnee zelf zijn dataverbruik in kaart kunnen brengen.

[hameteman]

Now you're sleeping with Portals!

[hameteman]

Unit Testing in XCode 4

A nice write up on some comparisations between OCUnit with SenTestingKit (Supplied in Xcode 4 automatically now by Apple) and the older GHUnit. An answer to why you might want to stick with the current unit testing framework that is build into Xcode.

Who should read this article: If you develop for iOS and you unit test, this is for you. I compare GHUnit with the revamped, Xcode 4-integrated OCUnit/SenTestingKit, and provide recommendations based on various criteria.

Article here.

[hameteman]

Nederlandse gamerecensie-app Gametron voor de iPad uitgebracht

Gametron, een applicatie waarin games voor de iPad worden gerecenseerd, is sinds gisteren in de App Store te vinden. Een delegatie van de redactie van de website Insidegamer schrijft de recensies. Die worden in de app gepresenteerd onder de noemers ‘laatste recensies’, maar er is ook een pagina ‘aanraders’ waar de hoogst gewaardeerde games staan. De kleine artikelen zijn gekoppeld aan een ‘direct kopen’-knop, die je doorverwijst naar de App Store.

De te downloaden applicatie was er al twee maanden voor de iPhone, maar is na de update van gisteren ook geschikt gemaakt voor de iPad. Opvallend is dat de inhoud van de apps daadwerkelijk afwijkt: in de versie voor de iPad worden geen pure iPhone-games besproken en vice versa.

Downloaden: Gametron (gratis)

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[hameteman]

TweetDecks big update to their iPhone app just went live in the App Store not that long ago. This update is a complete redesign of their app. It offers better Facebook integration from what we can tell, and a much more intuitive interface. Simple but very functional.

This update puts the...

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[hameteman]

“Actually, Sheldon Has Better Design.”

If you’re an iOS developer, and love the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, then you have to watch season 4 episode 12: The Bus Pants Utilization (original air date is January 6, 2011.)

In this episode, Leonard comes up with an idea for his iOS app and derails his friendship with Sheldon.

What’s the App?

It’s a handwriting-recognition based equation solver, or in Sheldon’s way: “The Surprisingly Helpful Equation-Linked Differential Optimized Numerator.” The idea behind this is to use iPhone’s camera to take a picture of the equation, and scan it with handwriting recognition, then run it through a symbolic evaluation engine, and bam.

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[hameteman]

Briljant!

Update

Problems underlying the UIDickBar are analyzed and concluded in here: Problems and the Solution for UIDickBar.

On March 31, 2011, Twitter removed the UIDickBar from their iPhone client version 3.3.3.

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#dickbar, “Twitter’s mainstream consumer client experience,” now...

[hameteman]

We have seen some astonishing claims for completion times of Portal 2. When I criticised a number of the recurring nonsensical complaints against the game yesterday, one of the aspects I highlighted was that the game simply couldn’t be finished in four hours. But we’ve since received so many comments, tweets and emails from people claiming to have finished between 4 and 5 hours that we became a little suspicious. Having spent yesterday morning replaying the game, knowing all the solutions, I was certainly nowhere near finished in four hours. And the rest of us on RPS have found it’s taking at least seven hours. And then we started hearing about some even more incredible finishing times for Portal 2, based on Steam’s in-built timer. We’ve some news for you: the timer doesn’t work.

[hameteman]

Nederlandse iPad-applicatie Gametron gaat games aanraden [exclusief]

http://www.ipadclub.nl/18966/nederlandse-ipad-applicatie-gametron-gaat-games-aanraden-exclusief/