HazMat – My first Published iPhone Application

One of the companies I work for deals with international shipping. One of the most interesting parts of that job is watching all the weird and dangerous commodities that ship across the roads, rails, and sea.

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Ten tips for Xcode

A few minutes ago I was watching someone in IRC try to figure out how to do something and I came to the realization that while they were really bright, the new Xcode environment was so foreign to them they didn’t really know where to look to find information.

With that in mind I offer these quick tips:

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Epocrates RX and background network chatter

Update: I got a note from one of the developers at Epocrates.

He provided a detailed response about Epocrates use of the flag and assured me that he was in the same boat as all of us, waiting for some way to run in the background, and not able to do it yet.

So a quick shout out to Epocrates for the information.


Using the information in my previous post , I was able to find out how Epocrates keeps an open network connection. No idea why they do it, but I know how it is done.
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Where are the downloaded iPhone applications, and what format are they in?

During the last 4 months Apple has been pretty tight lipped about just about everything involving the App Store. So I’ve done my best to guess how things will end up. One thing I guessed wrong about is that applications would be encrypted. They arent.
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How much is that application

While browsing the app store I came across this quirk in pricing.

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