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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 |
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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Google Research unveiled TurboQuant, a novel quantization algorithm that compresses large language models’ Key-Value caches by up to 6x. With 3.5-bit compression, near-zero accuracy loss, and no retraining needed, it allows developers to run massive context windows on significantly more modest hardware than previously required. Early community benchmarks confirm significant efficiency gains.
By Bruno Couriol
Celine Pypaert discusses the ubiquitous nature of open-source software and shares a blueprint for securing modern applications. She explains how to prioritize high-risk vulnerabilities using exploitability data, the role of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), and the importance of bridging the gap between DevOps and Security through clear accountability and automated governance.
By Celine Pypaert
Zendesk argues that GenAI shifts the bottleneck in software delivery from writing code to “absorption capacity”, which is the organisation’s ability to define problems clearly, integrate changes into the wider system, and turn implementation into reliable value. As code becomes abundant, architectural coherence, review capacity, and delivery flow become the main constraints.
By Eran Stiller
Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini used Claude Code to find a remotely exploitable heap buffer overflow in the Linux kernel's NFS driver, undiscovered for 23 years. Five kernel vulnerabilities have been confirmed so far. Linux kernel maintainers report that AI bug reports have recently shifted from slop to legitimate findings, with security lists now receiving 5-10 valid reports daily.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
At Lead Bank, synchronous telemetry flushing caused intermittent exporter stalls to become user-facing 504 gateway timeouts. By leveraging AWS Lambda's Extensions API and goroutine chaining in Go, flush work is moved off the response path, returning responses immediately while preserving full observability without telemetry loss.
By Melvin Philips
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