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iPhone Books, Amazon Kindle DX, and XCode, Oh My!

By Xeon Xai  |  2009/06/04 22:07 Posted in iPhone  |  Comments (0)

Still waiting on a few more books to ship from Amazon to study more iPhone application development. Considering getting a Kindle DX to put all my eBook versions of the printed books onto, so that I can read outside from the MacBook and the second monitor.  Allowing those screens to be put to better use of iPhone app programming.

Plan to upgrade to the new iPhone when it’s released, so that I can use my first generation iPhone as the debugging/testing phone and the other for real day to day things.

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Looking for a Great 2D/3D Artist.

By Xeon Xai  |  2009/03/21 21:06 Posted in Games, iPhone  |  Comments (0)

I’m looking for a good 2D/3D artist to help with artwork for a few game ideas on the iPhone.

I do like the cell shading look, and that might be my ultimate style I go with.  If you have skills with designs in these aspects, I would love to hear from you.

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Subversion + Mac OS X Leopard + XCode 3 = Faster Coding

By Xeon Xai  |  2009/03/05 02:20 Posted in iPhone, Subversion  |  Comments (0)

I have set up Subversion to store the repos of my iPhone apps I’m developing on my Mac system.  Now all I need to do is begin working on a core for my apps that I can use as the basis for all future apps.

If anyone has any trouble setting up Subversion on the Mac to use with XCode, here is a place to start:

ADC – Using Subversion with XCode 3 on Mac OS X Leopard

Subversion with Mac OS X Tutorial

How to setup a Subversion server on OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

SVN, Apache2, OS X Leopard 10.5

Also note, that if you download and install the Subversion 1.5+ binary if you choose to use the newer version, be sure to direct to the proper mod_dav_svn.so file in the /opt/subversion/lib/svn-apache/ directory and not the /usr/libexec/apache2 directory. If you don’t, then you will get the following “Could not open the requested SVN filesystem” error on any repos created with svn higher than 1.4+ that comes preloaded with the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

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4 Books to Learn Programming on the Mac.

By Xeon Xai  |  2009/03/01 17:23 Posted in iPhone  |  Comments (0)

Learn C on the Mac
[ISBN10: 1-4302-1809-6]
Own 1 copy, reading first.

Learn Objective-C on the Mac
[ISBN10: 1-4302-1815-0]
Own 1 copy.

Learn Cocoa on the Mac
[ISBN10: 1-4302-1859-2]
Pre-ordered 1 copy.

Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK
[ISBN10: 1-4302-1626-3]
Own 1 copy.

These are the books I’ll be reading to get myself firmly involved into iPhone software development.  I have created 1 small application for the iPhone but won’t be releasing it into the AppStore until I can make it do more things.  There are a few game ideas I have in mind, but would require a larger physics engine to complete… along with the help of a few people to create sound samples, music, and of course some of the models for the games characters.

In a few months, I should have an app or 2 in the AppStore.  Until then, I’m going to study and build my knowledge of programming on the Mac.  As of current, I am well versed in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, XML, RSS, CSS, XHTML. So learning C/C++, and Objective-C shouldn’t be to difficult for me.

I’ll keep the world posted as to my advancements.

Enjoy.

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