If you, like me, don't like to install Xcode into the /Developer folder (maybe because you have several versions of it on your computer at one time), you will run into a problem while trying to install Application Tools 1.1 to build apps for the Mac App Store.

Like a number of installers I've encountered, the Application Tools 1.1 installer fails if it cannot find Xcode in the /Developer folder. In my case, I already had a /Developer folder with a few system items in it but Xcode was in a separate folder off the root of my drive called /Xcode3.2.5iOS4.2.

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If you just updated to Xcode 3.2.5 and iOS SDK 4.2, you might find that your existing projects do not compile. This probably doesn't surprise you as it's been the way for every SDK update as far back as the beginning of time (at least in the Jobsian calendar). Thankfully, with Xcode 3.2.5, you can set your base SDK once and for all and it should work for all future releases.

But first things, first, here's the error I received while trying to compile one of the early projects from my iOS SDK workshop: "error: there is no SDK with the name or path 'iphoneos4.1'"

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I was trying to install PhoneGap iOS on my new MacBook Air but got an error when I ran the PhoneGapLibInstaller.pkg installer. It was telling me that I didn't have Xcode installed when, in fact, I did. I just didn't have it installed in the default location (/Developer).

(Since I usually have several versions of Xcode on my machine at the same time, I've taken to installing them off the root in descriptive folders – e.g., Xcode3.2.4iOS4.1, etc.)

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An error 404 is just a geeky way of saying that the web site or page that you're looking for does not exist.

Read more about Error 404 on Wikipedia.

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I just encountered a hairy yet rather funny bug in Feathers that I thought I'd share with you. It was one of those that leaves you scratching your head even though it's just staring you in the face. (Granted, when you have a large code-base and multiple threads, locating the area of the code where the issue is staring you in the face can be a chore in and of itself.) So, without further ado…

What's wrong with his code?

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