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Whats the best iPhone development environment?I looked at the Java Micro Edition, and did some simple programming using a mobile phone emulator. Then I looked at X-Code, but that seemed… Started by Kevin Neelands |
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Jan 20, 2010 Reply by Kevin Neelands |
Free - Intro to iPhone Development Course - StanfordI am doing this free online course with a friend, Mike Hauser, producer of www.betterbadnews.com, who lives in Berkeley. Just an FYI. If yo… Started by Michael Levin |
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Jan 19, 2010 Reply by Kevin Collins |
Connecting to a database...base de données!(I'm posting this for Mara, who speaks French and lives in Africa - please give him a hand with his dev question! I translated the questi… Started by Michael Levin |
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Jan 19, 2010 Reply by Kevin Collins |
iPhones and MusicThis cable, called a "GuitarBud" connects a guitar to iPhone. What are the latest developments in mixing and recording on the iPhone? Very… Started by Michael Levin |
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What's Your Favorite iPhone App?My favorite app right now is called Lose it for iPhone. It's taught me Burger King is delicious but I have to exercise about this much to… Started by Michael Levin |
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Dec 27, 2009 Reply by Michael Levin |
Has anyone gotten a Distribution Certificate for an iPhone app?I've written a couple apps for the iPhone and put them on my own iPhone using a Provisional Development Certificate, but I'm attempting to… Started by Kevin Neelands |
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Nov 20, 2009 Reply by Kevin Neelands |
Libraries, Frameworks, and Code that has saved me time and effortInitially, iPhone SDK development was largely done in isolation-- the SDK doesn't support dynamic frameworks and making a static library wa… Started by Robert Hedin |
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Book: Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK, by Mark & LaMarcheBeginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK, by Mark & LaMarche. This has been recommended by a Codetown member. Thoughts?… Started by Michael Levin |
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iPhone development environment stirs up creativity - that's a good thingSFGate: "The popular iPhone has inspired a wave of creativity among software developers, many of whom have aspirations of making a quick bu… Started by Michael Levin |
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Apr 27, 2009 Reply by Walt Sellers |
iPhone SDK Application Development: Building Applications for the AppStoreiPhone SDK Application Development: Building Applications for the AppStore is another book by Jonathan Zdziarski describing iPhone applica… Started by Michael Levin |
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Apr 1, 2009 Reply by Walt Sellers |
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React Navigation has released version 8.0 in alpha, updating its routing library for React Native and web applications. Notable changes include native bottom tabs as the default, enhanced TypeScript inference, and deep linking enabled by default. The update prioritizes stability and includes a guide for migration from version 7.x.
By Daniel Curtis
Room 3.0 is a major update to Android's persistence library that introduces breaking changes in key areas. The new release focuses on modernizing Android persistence layer around Kotlin Multiplatform and expands platform support to include JavaScript and WebAssembly.
By Sergio De Simone
At GrafanaCON 2026 in Barcelona, Grafana Labs announced Grafana 13 with the new Loki Kafka-backed architecture at the ingestion layer and the AI Observability in Grafana Cloud to monitor and evaluate AI systems in real time. In particular, the new CLI called GCX was announced, designed to surface Grafana Cloud data inside agentic development environments.
By Claudio Masolo
Observability must evolve with serverless, event-driven architectures. OpenTelemetry can decouple telemetry from vendors, letting developers emit consistent, high-quality data that explains real system behavior. Shared vocabularies and good telemetry make debugging faster and improve reliability, speed, and developer productivity.
By Ben Linders
Frank Yu shares Coinbase’s engineering philosophy for building resilient, fair, and fast financial exchanges. He explains the power of a single-threaded architecture combined with the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain 24/7 availability. He discusses how determinism enables zero-downtime rolling deployments and the ability to replay production logs for perfect bug reproduction.
By Frank Yu
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