Category Archives: development

Is this ipa signed for your device?

Its a common issue for iPhone app developers. You sign the build and put it on the web server. You download and it work on your own devices. You send the link to the client and the respond that it [...]

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Regular problem with XML to JSON Converters

Here at tapadoo, we’ve done a number of apps which communicate with back end data servers. Typically this means a RESTful API with JSON or XML payloads. There’s one issue we’ve come across on a number of projects, where we’re [...]

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Tired of trying to create nice buttons for your iPhone app? Try this.

Flat iPhone buttons as offered in Interface builder suck. They don’t look nice. There’s the option of using Three20 to get good looking buttons. Its an option, but frankly, it feels a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a [...]

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Project Firepit

We’ve had our heads down for a couple of months. This is because we’ve been working on a project we’re very excited about. Now that our initial release is out the door, we’re happy to give out some information about [...]

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Style guidelines and pot roasts

In many companies I’ve worked I’ve engaged in the usual “style wars”. It goes like this. A senior developer decides that for the new project, the entire team should use a single style. This will mean that the code is [...]

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