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iPhone App Development Classes

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

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…

End of 2008

Well, I haven’t blogged in a long time, and now school’s about to start again, so I’d better get to it. Another year has come and gone, and I must say that it was a very eventful one. Far too much for me to cover right now. Not sure if I have the motivation to…Continue Reading…

How to make a Firefox Toolbar

Today I’m going to start learning how to create a toolbar for Firefox, hopefully as a browser extension or add-on. I tried looking for some open source XPIs to work from, but it was more difficult than I thought. So I posted the question on the mozillaZine Forums, and got a helpful response. Looks like…Continue Reading…