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Posts Tagged development

Creating UITableView badges like iOS Mail

Apple’s iOS Mail has a universal inbox on iOS 4. Very handy in general, but its unread badges complete the feature. I frequently glance down the list of email addresses I have and know exactly what the state of my inboxes are. I never have to wonder how many new emails I have. I just [...]


Modal views in universal iOS apps

On the iPhone, it’s quite normal to have an app slide a sheet up to create something or change settings. But on the iPad, that same view should be displayed in a popover. In a universal app, the key is shared code and XIBs for both approaches. The code below is all that I needed [...]


Ad-Hoc and App Store IPAs with xcrun

Xcode 4′s “Build and Archive” feature is extremely convenient. With it, I can build a distribution version of an app and archive it away, so that later, in Xcode Organizer, I can click on that instance and submit it to the App Store. Brilliant for individual developers. But at my work, we wanted a bit [...]


Deleting large AWS S3 buckets

2011.12.08 Update: Amazon now supports multi-object delete in a single API request, up to 1k objects. Amazon’s AWS S3 is awesome. However, there are times when the API makes certain tasks a bit hard. Today, I wanted to delete a bucket with 100k files. AWS does not support deleting a bucket with files inside; you [...]


iPhone Tip: Tether to your Mac

No, not the iOS Personal Hotspot. I meant the other direction. Here is how to share your Mac’s internet connection with your iPhone or iPad. Simply go into System Preferences and click on “Sharing”. In “Sharing”, select “Internet Sharing” and click “Wi-Fi Options…” to configure the network name. Then, just check the box for “Internet [...]