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Welcome to Web Tech Express

I recently decided to learn Objective-C and iPhone development.  Web Tech Express is my personal blog site that I have created to share my learning experiences. My goal is that my experience while learning Objective-C and iPhone development will provide both introductory and advance information. I will start with the most basic Objective-C concepts and [...]

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Using a UIImagePickerController and Cocos2d

I’ve been working on a project for the iPhone that uses an image from the device. You can either get your images direct from the camera, photo albums or one of your saved images. After spending some time looking through sample code and reading endless pages of information I was finally able to put some [...]

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Interesting notes

Well I have been looking at the web site log and have determined that Lesson 5 is the most viewed lesson on this site out of 5,000 views. My initial objective for this site was to create lessons as I learned Objective-C and iPhone programming, but with the results and views I think from here [...]

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First application with the help of Cocos2D ~ Now In the App Store

Well after two months of pounding at the keyboard and totally neglecting my website here, I  finally finished and submitted my very first iPod touch/iPhone application for approval. It was a long road to the finish line considering I’m still learning Objective-C, but with the help of the Cocos2D library I was able to produce [...]

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Photophun “Free until Friday”

Just wanted to let all my visitors know that Photophun is Free this week until Aug 20th in the App Store! Have Phun!

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How to redeem a promo code from your device

After developing my application, I sent out promo codes to my friends and the people who helped me test my application. I searched the web trying to find some instructions that would make the process easy to understand, but in the end I decided to write my own in hope it would help them as [...]

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Comments

Since I put up this blog I have been getting comments from all you great readers. I want to thank all of you for your support. I have removed the spam plugin because after creating a log I found most of it was not spam. A total of 1 out or six marked as spam [...]

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Apple Push Notificaton ~ iLaunderette©

Sorry for the lack of any post lately, I’ve been working on a project involving Apple Push Notification. This involved setting up a server and adding the device ID to a database then calculating the  correct time to push the message to APN at the correct time. This was a great learning experience and something [...]

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iDayHike

Wow! My good long time friend Matt, who got me started in programming Objective-C, has finally got his first app up in the App store. It called iDayHike and here is a full description and a link to the App Store. Buy Today At the App Store. Description It’s a great day for a hike! [...]

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Lesson 1: First steps to programing in Objective-C and becoming an iPhone developer

1. Buy a Mac You will need a Mac with an Intel-based processor. I would highly recommend a Mac running Snow Leopard with all the current updates, two gigs of memory and around 100gigs of hard drive space. Laptops or a Mac Mini are more than powerful enough, and they give you the added benefit [...]