Monday, June 21, 2010

Do I buy the iTouch or not?

Since I've started learning iphone development I've seen myself tempted on various occasions to buy an iPod Touch, today is one of those days I can't contain myself, however there's this one thing that is holding me back... What if the new generation iPod Touch comes with FaceTime? if thats the case then I think I should definitively wait a little longer.
The thing is since in the end I'll be developing apps for the iOS stack its logical for me to get one for practical reasons, after finishing the learning stages I'll be releasing a game app to the app store but before that I'll be buying an iOS device, don't think it will be an iPhone, but maybe an iTouch or an iPad.
Maybe if there is an urge (due to product release time constrains) I'll definitively go for the iPad instead of the iTouch.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Some toughts on iphone development

Been reading the book as I said in previous posts and I almost finished tha basics section, its almost 11pm, should I jump to cocoa touch or should I go to bed, hard decision. I guess I'll just drink a cup of hot chocolate and decide afterwards.

Lucky me I still have a backup ISP

My primary ISP has been misbehaving lately, latency and speed stability are getting quite intolerable at night, we mostly use Internet at home by night youtube, gaming, p2p I do some work from home so I make heavy use of VPNs, you name it, its sad to see this happing I recently changed to this ISP and was in the process of canceling the old one, now I'm in doubt, may be I'll just go back to my older (more reliable) ISP, I'll be taking a decision the next week.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Learning some iphone development basics

Got a hold of a mac recently, as of now I'm trying to learn a little iphone development by following a book: Iphone App Development - The Missing Manual, the book is quite good, however I'm to anxious just to follow, for some reason I feel it is going too slow at times.
Since I've never coded Objective-C in the past and I'm a complete n00b in Apple territory I have to get calm and try to read the book, I guess I'll try to give it a shot and in parallel try to code every example in Xcode, maybe that way I can feel more at ease with the books pace.
Don't know if having a book is the right approach Apple's ADC has lots of getting started info and videos, tried to watch some of them but got bored too quickly don't know if it is that I'm to anxious to have something working or is something different screwing with me?
I try my best to get this going, need some extra cash my little boy is aiming for school next year so I definitively could use some extra cash.