http://tewha.net Links and writings on software development, mostly for iPhone and Mac OS X. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:57:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://tewha.net/2009/11/apples-mistake/ http://tewha.net/2009/11/apples-mistake/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:22:58 +0000 Steven Fisher http://tewha.net/?p=1092 Paul Graham (Wikipedia article) on Apple's Mistake, with a great comparison: What would happen if every update to Mac OS X had to go through an opaque, fickle intermediary?

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]]> http://tewha.net/2009/11/loren-brichter-on-tweetie-reload/feed/ 0 http://tewha.net/2009/08/adding-shadow-effects-to-uitableview-using-cagradientlayer/ http://tewha.net/2009/08/adding-shadow-effects-to-uitableview-using-cagradientlayer/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:41:34 +0000 Steven Fisher http://tewha.net/?p=1057 Matt Gallagher (Cocoa with Love): Adding shadow effects to UITableView using CAGradientLayer. Non-obvious and useful.

]]> http://tewha.net/2009/08/adding-shadow-effects-to-uitableview-using-cagradientlayer/feed/ 0 http://tewha.net/2009/08/not-your-average-iphone-screencast/ http://tewha.net/2009/08/not-your-average-iphone-screencast/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:53:26 +0000 Steven Fisher http://tewha.net/?p=1039 Loren Brichter (Atebits, Tweetie): Not Your Average iPhone Screencast. How to make the simulator look like a real device in screencasts.

]]> http://tewha.net/2009/08/not-your-average-iphone-screencast/feed/ 0 http://tewha.net/2009/07/iphone-application-design-patterns/ http://tewha.net/2009/07/iphone-application-design-patterns/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:23:05 +0000 Steven Fisher http://tewha.net/?p=996 Mike Rundle: iPhone Application Design Patterns

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