Archive for February 2009

First Test App on the iPod Touch

I finally got a test app on my iPod Touch!  I know it’s been a while since my post about becoming an actual iPhone Developer, but this morning I buckled down and figured out what Provisioning, Certificates, and App IDs meant to get testing on an actual device.  It all makes sense it’s just a [...]

Renaming Multiple Files using Regular Expressions

Many times I am presented with a set of files whose names I need to rename to fit a certain pattern, for example:
Old file name pg 1.pdf
Old file name pg 2.pdf
etc.
And you want to change it to:
File_name_1.pdf
File_name_2.pdf
etc.
Well I found a nice little utility to to take a set of files and with a little regular [...]

I am now an official iPhone Developer!

I received my official welcome email into the iPhone Developer Program yesterday.  I am excited to get started on some apps.
As an experienced Actionscript developer, I’ve found Keith Peters’ series AS3 to iPhone Tutorial something I could easily relate to.  I am eager to soak up as much knowledge as I can regarding Cocoa/Objective C [...]

Bulk updating A records in DNS on Windows Server 2003

When in a Windows server hosting environment there may come a time when you have to make DNS updates for a whole bunch of A records.  If you have a few, then the DNS MMC works fine, but if you have say 300 records that you need to change, it gets you thinking there has [...]