That never really happened.  I’m not really that smart, or that vain.  I was overzealous though perhaps, which isn’t a bad thing except that I didn’t follow through.  I learned something about myself after the blog got started, though.

I’m lazy.

But I’m not actually lazy.  Just lazy enough to not take this side project seriously enough.  Not important enough to me maybe?  I was always so torn between the amount of hours I spent blogging and all the time that I could have been spending building killer iPhone apps.  So instead, I built a killer iPhone App!

Not really.  Only in my dreams.  I’ll get there at some point.  Anyway, enough rambling.  The point is…

I really wanted devinsblog to be a place you could come to learn cool stuff.  The subtitle was “know | share | learn” as if I knew something and was then going to share something wonderful with other people.  FAIL!  Instead of looking at that subtitle of thinking of myself as a failure, I’ve simply changed the subtitle to “more or less my tech diary.”  What a load off!  I feel mildly successful now!

So now it’s “devinsblog: More or less my tech diary”  Which looks an awful lot like tech dairy… which would do a body good… hmm.

Anyway.  That’s my success story – change your goals to fit your success.  Word of caution: don’t take me seriously.

Cheers!

When you initially start a new iPhone project in Xcode, you get a project that loads from a NIB file.  This NIB file describes a template for how visual elements are layed out on the screen.

As a newbie to iPhone development I want to watch my project get created 100% through the code – I don’t want there to be any magic going on behind the scenes.  I’ll introduce the magic pieces one at a time, but for now: no Interface Builder. (There are a whole bunch of other things about Interface Builder that I actually don’t like, but that’s a different blog post)

To remove your dependence on Interface Builder from the application you need only to do these three things:

1. In your Resources folder in Xcode, delete your .xib file named “MainWindow.xib”
2. In your Resources folder in Xcode, open up the .plist file and remove the line that says “Main nib file base name” by selecting and clicking delete.
3. In your main.m file you need to manually let the application know where to start your app and send important application events.  Change this line:

int retVal = UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, nil); TO int retVal = UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, @"[yourAppName]AppDelegate")
And presto – no dependency on InterfaceBuilder.

What I really had in mind was to give a glimpse into ALL of my interests.  For some reason my interest in Apple kind of just stuck as the main topic of my blog.  I realize that a blog about everything really ends up boiling down to a non-specific blog about nothing, but if Seinfeld can do it so can I.  So that’s what I’ll do: a blog focused around the interests of myself, Devin.

From this point forward I will be focusing my efforts that direction.  Along with the usual Apple postings will be postings about a myriad of other things including: technology, cars, gadgets, social networking, amazing books that I’ve read, etc.  Whatever I learn I will share it with you, and hopefully you can learn something: know | share | learn – that’s the idea.