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Nailing down the idea, the navigation and the UI of your next killer iPhone application is as important (if not more) as writing good code. This is why this post will showcase some recent iPhone designer products, all providing a paper-based, iPhone-shaped and iPhone-sized support for sketching out iPhone apps with your client (or just [...]

(Somehow this project seems to me so simple, that I’m sure someone has done this before. Anyway). This is my feeble attempt to bring an answer to the eternal dichotomy between those arguing about the relative benefits of creating user interfaces via Interface Builder or via pure Objective-C code: let me introduce nib2objc.
Unbeknown to most [...]

(Highly geeky post ahead. You’ve been warned!)
I have found the very message that summarizes the beauty of Cocoa in a single word; see by yourselves, hereunder in line 47:

#import

// The interface of a person
@interface Person : NSObject {
NSString* firstName;
NSString* lastName;
int age;
}
@end

// The [...]

In the series of highly boring posts ;) here’s another one; in this case, a simple explanation of two different authentication protocols available in the HTTP standard.

HTTP Basic Authentication Protocol
This is the simplest HTTP Authentication protocol available:

The browser sends a request to a protected resource: GET /index.html
The server looks for the “Authenticated” header [...]

thanks .mick! :)

Just a few links to work with color; you might know them all, or not, but if you have more, don’t hesitate to post them in the comments!

Name that Color
Color Palette Generator
Adobe Kuler
COLOURlovers
Hex Color Picker for Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” (this is bundled with Leopard by default)

 
Finally, a classic – even if it [...]

Incredible. I just came accross this blog called “One Month App”. The guys from Clear Function have been working on Pulse, a web-based application, more or less at the same time as I was working on Parking Friend (from the end of September to mid-October)! Their design is nicer than mine, though :)
It [...]