Announcing EniRemote for iPad, a remote for any DreamBox set-top box with Gemini Image (Enigma2) …and a hint for Delphi programmers

12. August 2010 in Apple, Delphi, DelphiExperts, Xcode, iPad by holger | View Comments

Finally, I am able to announce my first iPad project written in Objective-C and Xcode, written in association with DeveloperExperts, LLC. One can hardly believe how hard-felt the “finally” is. I have been programming since 1988 and Objective-C has been the toughest programming language yet. My biggest issue was getting used to the strange way how memory allocation and deallocation is handled. It might be me, but it took quite… Continue reading

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Looking at DevExpress DXperience 2010.1 (beta)

6. May 2010 in .NET, Prism by holger | View Comments

I am eagerly awaiting DevExpress to release DXperience 2010.1. As a subscriber to their technologies you can access a preview version of their product and I just noticed that the Release Candidate is available.
Why am I so excited? Let me just give you a couple of reasons from what I saw with the beta version already:

  • The new installer gets you set up right away without any
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Localization Nightmares…or why having all languages in one version of RAD Studio is just awesome

4. May 2010 in Delphi by holger | View Comments

Let me give you an example why the decision by Embarcadero to deliver all languages with the very same DVD or download is one of the most overlooked features.

I am a big big fan of strategy games on the PC platform. Thus, I bought Anno 1404, definitely a purchase I never regret as the game is truly the best real-time strategy game I ever played so far. I… Continue reading

NSString: Using stringWithFormat and left pad integers with zeros

21. April 2010 in Apple, iPad, iPhone by holger | View Comments

Today, I wanted to display a time-value of 9 minutes and 3 seconds like this: 09:03

Thus, I typed this snippet into my Objective-C code:

labelTimer.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%2d:%2d", minutes, seconds ];
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This did not yield the result I wanted. The numbers were padded with spaces, not zeros. Sadly, Apple left out the options for the different format specifiers like f, d, @ ... completely. You… Continue reading

libxml: Memory Management and leaks in Frameworks you consider ‘safe’

20. April 2010 in Apple, Delphi, iPad, iPhone by holger | View Comments

If you have ever written code in Java or .NET, you will truly learn to appreciate the garbage collection, i.e. objects that are no longer referenced are being freed from memory. Automatically no less.

A lot of people do not like it for reasons of their own and I do not want to get into those.

What I do want to discuss is that in an environment in… Continue reading

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