http://amromousa.com vim /etc/amdev_rant.conf Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:55:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So for the past two days I've had my iPhone app crashing and vomiting "EXC_BAD_ACCESS" in the console. Generally speaking, this error means you've released a reference to some object you still need and some other object tried to send a message to said object afterward. It turns out that ... http://amromousa.com/2008/08/27/nsurlconnection-timeoutconnection-amdev-woes/ so drew and i founded a new startup, return7.  we're each working on an iphone app, and we're hoping to submit the apps to apple within the next week or two -- stay tuned. http://amromousa.com/2008/08/26/return7/ So you want to insert widget code using element.innerHTML in IE? That's fine, but wrap the string you're innerHTMLing in a call to "Appcelerator.Compiler.addIENameSpace(string)."  Why?  When inserting XML into IE's DOM, you need to prefix it w/ "<?xml:namespace prefix = app ns = "http://www.appcelerator.org" />" so IE knows what to ... http://amromousa.com/2008/08/12/appcelerator-dynamic-code-ie-be-careful/ If you can't seem to select the Distribution Provisioning Profile when you're trying to sign your iPhone app for distribution on the AppStore, here's a tip:  Check your Keychain Access application, under "Keys" on the left hand side to make sure you have a public and private key for the ... http://amromousa.com/2008/08/11/cant-select-distribution-provisioning-profile-in-xcode/ Radio Javan is out on the Appstore! Click here or navigate to the music category to download your free copy. http://amromousa.com/2008/07/31/radiojavan-is-out/ About a week ago, Hamed Hashemi (of RadioJavan.com, coworker at Appcelerator) asked if I wanted to help write an application to stream RJ to the iPhone.  A week (and many late nights spent learning the iPhone SDK and Objective-C) later, RadioJavan.app is alive and kicking.  Look for it on the ... http://amromousa.com/2008/07/21/radio-javan-for-the-iphone/ ban people from using my iPhone SDK to do useful things, presumably so I can do those useful things with less features and sell them for more than the 3rd party would with more features. Edit: Oh and heaven forbid people have applications that actually run in the background.  That would ... http://amromousa.com/2008/06/11/hi-im-apple-i-like-to/ ..it often helps if your QA department doesn't use a proxy server for caching older versions of files.  Food for thought. http://amromousa.com/2008/06/06/when-testing-against-nightly-builds/ So Webkit's JS interpreter has just hit the big time -- it's now a full blown vm instead of a syntax-tree-walker like the other slow-pokes.  What's interesting is it's roughly 1.6x faster than Safari 3.1's js interpreter and 4.something times as fast as Safari 3.0's so we're talking a major ... http://amromousa.com/2008/06/05/squirrelfish-webkits-new-javascript-interpreter/ So I finally fixed that odd crapping out after 30 seconds of streaming issue -- I was corrupting the audio buffer in some odd circumstance.  It turns out that Shoutcast 1.9.9 beta (linux only atm) already has native iPhone/iPod touch support so my proxy guy is pretty much moot.  It ... http://amromousa.com/2008/05/31/more-shoutcast-on-the-iphone/