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iPhone App Development Classes

1/21/2009 by admin | Filed in Apple, USC | 7 Comments

My latest iPhone/iPod touch app, Whiteboard Lite, is now available in the iTunes App Store. This semester, I’m a Lab Assistant (also sometimes called a Teaching Assistant or TA) for the new ITP 499 iPhone App Development class here at USC (the University of Southern California). The most well-known iPhone App Dev class done so…Continue Reading…

Localizable.strings Not Working

1/10/2009 by admin | Filed in Apple, Geek Stuff, Technical | 3 Comments

The iPhone offers good localization support the same way Mac OS X does. For strings, developers use a file called “Localizable.strings”. It’s a bit tricky, though. The syntax of the file is strict; any small error will cause it to stop working without warning. Unfortunately, the compiler (which doesn’t touch the file at all) can’t…Continue Reading…