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Archive for November, 2009

writing software for the iPhone platform

by Nico Tranquilli on Nov.21, 2009, under Mobile, Side Projects

Dec 02 2009 UPDATE: this is now freely available on the App Store
Dec 04 2009 UPDATE: It’s 4th on the top free applications for the travel category (Italian App Store) ;-)
Dec 17 2009 UPDATE: updated version (1.1) now available (includes georeferenced webcams and Last.fm events)

Main application screen

Main application screen

Lately I spent some time learning how to write iPhone applications.
Having been an avid C programmer for so many years it wasn’t difficult to start writing code in Objective-C (a powerful yet simple OOP language based on C);
a good book and the standard Apple docs that come with the SDK did the rest for the Cocoa touch API and the iPhone SDK in general

Finally, a couple of hours ago I managed to submit a first application to the App Store; nothing original but it still can handle maps, gps data, tables and scroll views, images, graphical transitions, REST API calls and results parsing for different webservices (yr.no weather data, geonames, flickr, panoramio, bing, yahoo search, google maps, upcoming.org) mostly through asynchronous network calls. Almost 7K lines of code.


wt_newswt_weather

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Casa delle Farfalle

by Nico Tranquilli on Nov.07, 2009, under Photos


taken on Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:08:03pm (CET) in Madonna del Pino, Italy
[ NIKON D300; 55 mm @ f/2.8 @ 1/250th @ 800 ISO ; metering: Auto, Multi-segment, -1/3 EV ]
[ location: 44 deg 16' 42.60 N, 12 deg 20' 11.40 E, 9 m a.s.l. ]

Check out the full set of photos from this place

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