I love to teach and I had a blast this year while teaching my 3-Day iOS SDK course for iPhone and iPad at venues around the world. And, based on the feedback, the students had a blast too.

(more...)

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'"

(more...)

I will be teaching my 3-Day Introduction to iOS Development workshop this month, November 24-26, 2010, right after I return from giving the second day opening keynote and teaching a one-day iPhone workshop at Future of Web Design in New York. The venue is the beautiful Lighthouse Arts in central Brighton (UK).

This intensive course will give you a solid foundation in developing with the iOS SDK (for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch), Xcode (both 3 & and the upcoming 4), and Objective-C. To see a more detailed outline of the course and get all the juicy details, please see the course's web-site.

(more...)

Looks like somehow Apple has allowed a rather broken Xcode 3.2.4 to be released. If your projects use the LLVM compiler, you may find yourself with lots of errors when you try to compile for the simulator.

The issue has been widely reported and there is a workaround that involves adding

(more...)

I'm teaching my iPhone & iPad training course in the UK in September. The three-day class, titled A Modern Introduction to iPhone & iPad Development will take place in Brighton on Stepmber 15-17, 2010.

(more...)