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Sorry, that there are no new posts on this blog recently. I am in the process of writing my Phd. thesis and it keeps me completely busy. I hardly have time for anything else. However, I recently stumbled upon Visual Studio LightSwitch and it is simply amazing.
It is the coolest framework I have seen in a long time. All the ideas that start piling up in my… Continue reading
With regard to my recent posts I would like to point out two events that will be held in Germany in November. Both events focus on development for iOS 4 and are scheduled as a two-day workshop.
Day 1 will give an introduction to iOS 4 development, Objective-C in particular, and the development tools needed to write apps. Whereas day 2 will be more hands-on and will give attendees… Continue reading
I already mentioned in earlier posts that it is quite tricky when beginning with iOS to decide whether one has to release an object instance or not.
Sure, we have the golden rule number one:
If I use alloc, copy or new to create an object instance, I own it and need to call release as soon as I do not need it anymore (or autorelease).
This sounds simple, but… Continue reading
In my last post I spilled where my major focus lies right now. I am looking at something completely different: not a new language, but a new language, with new tools on a different platform. And believe me, it is different.
Why different? Well, not only is the syntax of the programming language on Mac very odd getting used to for a Delphi or C# developer, but even more… Continue reading
Well, we spend a lot of time in front of our PCs every day and it can get pretty frustrating now and then.
However, being an only-child myself, one of the new help links that have been introduced in Windows 7 to help users connect to each other, made me laugh. See for yourselves…
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