FlexiCoder Blog

Came across this useful blog that shows you can override the description method of an object and when you display object using NSLog it will show the extra info you’ve included!

Link to the iPhone Configuration Utility

Used OmniGraffle to produce mockups for my latest iPhone project, its pretty easy yo use and there are a number of good stencils that allow for most of the UI Kit controls and even the iPad!

Found a really useful XML editor that runs on the Mac, XML Spear

Found a useful tool Doxygen that will scan through your source code and generate documentation in an HTML format.

If you have IE 8 installed and your ASP.Net project won’t stop on the breakpoints you’ve set they you probably need to read this article

You basically need to add an entry to your registry to stop process growth for tabs.

I’ve copied the steps required below

1) Open RegEdit
2) Browse to HKEY_LOCALMACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Internet Explorer -> Main
3) Add a dword under this key called TabProcGrowth
4) Set TabProcGrowth to 0

Found this great article that shows how to scroll the view so that a textfield is in view when the keyboard appears.

http://de-co-de.blogspot.com/2009/03/moving-uitextfield-above-keyboard.html

I’ve copied the code below so that I have a reference to it as well.

You also need to ensure the following steps are followed…

• Make your controller implement UITextViewDelegate
• setup your textfield’s (s) delegate to be your controller
• in the controller @interface add an int verticalOffset
• in the controller @implementation add the functions below

#pragma mark "-- text editing support --"
// Animate the entire view up or down, to prevent the keyboard from covering the text field.
- (void)moveView:(int)offset {
    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.3];
    // Make changes to the view's frame inside the animation block. They will be animated instead
    // of taking place immediately.
    CGRect rect = self.view.frame;
    rect.origin.y -= offset;
    rect.size.height += offset;
    self.view.frame = rect;

    [UIView commitAnimations];
}

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *) sender {
    [sender resignFirstResponder];
    if (verticalOffset!=0) {
        [self moveView: -verticalOffset];
        verticalOffset = 0;
    }
    return TRUE;
}

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)theTextField {
    int wantedOffset = theTextField.frame.origin.y-200;
    if ( wantedOffset < 0 ) {
        wantedOffset = 0;
    }
    if ( wantedOffset != verticalOffset ) {
        [self moveView: wantedOffset - verticalOffset];
        verticalOffset = wantedOffset;
    }
}

Here is a great site for helping to choose colour schemes for websites.

If you want to get into iPhone development this is a great book to start from Beginning iPhone Development by apress

In Visual Studio 2008 you’ve lost the abillity to click on the drop down in the code behind and see all the event signatures that are available but haven’t handled yet. To get the signature you are after without using the properites in the desinger you can type…


this.


As you hit the . all methods and events should appear, pick the event you after e.g. Load

Then add type += after the event name and press TAB TAB, the event is automatically generated. ASP.Net auto wires the events with the correct name and signature so you should be able to delete the line of code that binds the event.

Check out this article for more info.