Expanding my programming knowledge with: iPhone development

Michel Hiemstra — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:17:59 +0000

Yeah, I started to learn iPhone development a while back, but gave up pretty easily when work started to get busy. But now I finally found some time to continue learning the cool, but different language: Objective-C.

I started to watch the movies on iTunes U, enrolled as a Apple developer and bought some books, even though I watched over 8 hours of video I haven’t touched xCode yet But brewing up some idea’s already that would make cool apps! So look out in the App store if you see my name or my company name scrolling by!

The books I bought:
- Beginning iPhone development: Exploring the iPhone SDK
- Apps maken voor de iPhone (dutch)

Other resources:
- Apple developer center

Making local development a little bit easier on Mac OS X Leopard

Michel Hiemstra — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:51:10 +0000

I’ve configured a local DNS server that makes it a little bit easier to develop locally, because i always work with local domains like e.g. project.local.dev i always had to add them to my host file, and that’s very annoying. I stumbled upon the little app DNS Enabler and it saves me allot of trouble installing a local DNS server, and it saves me allot of time! It costs 15 dollar but worth every penny. Whenever i add something in my addressbar, like blabla.local.dev it automatticly goes to a local folder on /data/www/blabla. This is how i did it:

I assume you already have apache installed, if not, you can follow my tutorial on that too. Open up your apache config, usually found in /private/etc/apache2/

Add the following:

Click here for the vhost config, my code syntax highlighter messes it up

Next thing up is, install DNS Enabler (buy if first ofcourse) and copy these settings:

(click image to enlarge)

And make sure you set the DNS in your system preferences to localhost, e.g.:

Thats all! Now you can add a directory in your root e.g. /data/www/test and go to it in your browser with http://test.local.dev

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Expanding my programming knowledge with: iPhone development

Making local development a little bit easier on Mac OS X Leopard