JUNECLOUD // journal / code

My First WWDC

Posted June 16th, 2009 by Mike Piontek / Design, Code, Mac OS X, iPhone and iPod touch

Above: Apple’s live App Store wall at WWDC. It showed icons of 20,000 iPhone apps, organized by color. When an app was purchased, its icon rippled. It was also a great illustration of what WWDC is like: it’s a huge clusterfuck that makes you feel totally insignificant. But it’s also pretty beautiful and inspiring if you step back and take it all in. Last week I went to WWDC for the first time, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. It’s a huge event they hold every year at Moscone Center… Read more »

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Displaying a password or text entry prompt on the iPhone

Posted October 28th, 2008 by Mike Piontek / Code, iPhone and iPod touch

Writing your own iPhone or iPod touch app, and wondering how to create an alert like this? Check out the sample code below. I needed to display a password prompt in Delivery Status touch and quickly found that there was no ideal way to do it. There are some unsupported methods, but the workaround below—adding a UITextField as a subview of the alert—is the proper method for a third party app, according to Apple. Aside from the basic technique of adding a UITextField as a subview, there… Read more »

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Junecloud: coming soon

Posted July 09th, 2008 by Mike Piontek / Design, Code, Mac OS X

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Tense Log 2.1 beta 2 now available! (Updated)

Posted April 26th, 2007 by Mike Piontek / Design, Code

Above: the Tense Log crop tool, a new feature in version 2.1 This is a pretty big update to Tense Log! Perhaps the most exciting change is the greatly improved setup process and increased compatibility. Installation (or upgrading) is now as simple as uploading the files and then opening the site in your browser. A series of pages walks you through the process and even fills in most of the settings for you… all you have to do is make sure they’re correct, and fill in the few that are… Read more »

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A List Apart Web Design Survey

Posted April 24th, 2007 by Mike Piontek / Design, Code

A List Apart is starting an annual web design survey this year, to learn more about web professionals. I’m looking forward to hearing the results! Read more »

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