iPhone chapter in the bag...

May 29, 2008 by Bill Dudney

I have finally finished the iPhone chapter for the book. I've also taken an additional editing pass and finally gotten rid of all the parens at the end of ObjC method names. That was the single most pointed out flaw in the book (not sure if that is good or bad :). And finally I added a full section on CATiledLayer. I will post a blog entry about that shortly that has some of what I learned.

So, the book is getting very close to being done. If you are going to be at WWDC I'd love to meet face to face.

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Core Animation Screen Cast is Live!

May 27, 2008 by Bill Dudney

In addition to working madly on getting my iPhone apps done I've also been building some really cool screencasts. I'm really excited about this, its a way to realize what I blogged about way back here.

Here is the intro to the series. This is basically the first 3 minutes or so of the first episode pulled out and made free so you can get a feel for what is in the screencast. Hope you enjoy it!

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Friends on the iPhone

May 27, 2008 by Bill Dudney

A good friend of mine just launched his iPhone games to the public.

Go check his stuff out on the FlipSide5 website.

I'm following hard on your footsteps Mike, can't wait to announce my own :)

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What a week...

May 16, 2008 by Bill Dudney

My server got hacked or a DNS entry go hosed somewhere but starting about Wednesday my little mini that could started processing between 600 and 1000 hits a second. Looking for adverts. What is really strange is that my Apache instance was returning 200 instead of 404. I asked around and several people told me I needed to reformat and rebuild the server. So I shut down on Wednesday night around 5:00pm and rebuilt on Thursday. After rebuilding everything I turned the web service back on (i.e. started apache) and what do you know my hit count shot up to 300 to 600 hits a second. Arg..

So then I stared looking elsewhere for the issue and thanks to my responsive hosting provider I got switched to a new IP. Everything went back to normal. So it looks to me (though I'm no expert) like DNS was hosed somewhere which was routing those request to me. What I never understood was why was apache (after a fresh reformat, reinstall) responding with a 200 for URL's that clearly did not belong to my server. If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them.

So almost everything is back to normal now. There are still problems with mail but I hope to get that sorted out shortly.

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