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Posts from November 2009

Blog Breadcrumbs: Relevance, Recognition, and Trust

Whenever I encounter a strange error message or a similar roadblock while programming, I google for answers. This approach leads to a wide array of websites, almost all blogs. (In fact, most of this site’s traffic comes from Google, presumably from the same approach.) As soon as I get to the site, I want to [...]


iPhone Tip: Conditional Toolbar

For an iPhone app I’m developing, I wanted a toolbar at the bottom of the initial view, but I didn’t want it appearing in the other views. I tried simply calling myUINavigationController.hidden, but the effect was a little jarring. UINavigationController has a great wrapper for that method that includes animation: setToolbarHidden:animated:. With animation, the toolbar [...]


iPhone Tip: Automatic Focus for Text Input

Google popularized this trend in web forms years ago. When I go to the Google homepage, the page automatically puts the cursor in the search text box, so that I can immediately start typing. In Things on the iPhone, when I start to add a new item, the “New To Do” page automatically selects the [...]