Josh Highland

tutorials

Recently, I got a mac laptop at work, which is sup[er sweet, but I wanted to hook it up to a real monitor, keyboard and mouse. All very easy things to do. The problem I had was that the laptop was acting as the primary monitor. Every application that I drug over to the secondary monitor worked great, but the application tool bar was still on the laptop..... [Read more of this review]

Ever wanted to use NSLog in the iPhone SDK to see the value of a BOOL? Heck I have! “How do you do it”, you say? Just like this: NSLog(@"BOOL = %@\n", (boolVar ? @"YES" : @"NO")); Then again, I don’t use NSLog anymore, I use DebugLog  Read More →

Last month I had the honor of being a presenter at CFUnited 2010. Luis Majano and I gave a presentation on creating “ColdFusion Powered iPhone Applications”. Specifically, coldfusion apps running on the ColdBox Framework The volume is low, so you need to crank it up. You can download our demo source code and slides here http://www.vimeo.com/13864563 swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf",... [Read more of this review]

If you have UITextField in your app and you want to validate a value or  see is there something in it you might think to write some code like this: if (![addNewCellTextField.text isEqualToString:@""]) You would be right, but this will fail if the field is never touched! When a user taps the field, and it gets focus, UITextField.text... [Read more of this review]

I helped run the camera while my good friend Luis Majano upgraded the RAM in his MacBook Pro unibody swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/GeGIKlA6qVs&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0", "vvq-1984-youtube-2", "425", "344", "10", vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes);  Read More →