Douglas Purdy

The iPhone application that I am writing entered Beta today.

Our Beta is going to be small, based on the Ad Hoc distribution limitation of 100 users.

I hope we can get it on the App Store in February sometime.

A couple of things that I have learning writing this app:

Cons:  Mainly nits

1. XML support on the iPhone could use some help.  It has a SAX-like API that I had to wrap.
2. I do not like the split between @property and @synthesize.  I think would be so much clear to combine them.  I know why they are not, but from a productivity standpoint one construct would have made me happier.
3. I really, really wanted anonymous delegates/methods.

Pros: Outweighed the cons significantly

1. UIViewControllers are incredible productivity tools on the iPhone.  I don’t believe we have anything close to this in the .Net Framework, but I could be wrong.
2. UIImagePickerController rocks, although there seems to be a bug where you have to be careful with number that you allocate, so it is better to just cache one.
3. CLLocationManager rocks, although  it seems to some times pass in my previous location, even after I have travelled a long distance since the last time it was enabled.
4. I love Objective-C and Cocoa more each day (modulo the language nits above)