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Titanium Developer: love and hate (Part II)

Written by Eneko Alonso on August 18, 2010 — Leave a Comment

For the last four weeks and despite other projects and deadlines, I’ve been working on a mobile app for iPhone and Android, using Titanium Developer from Appcelerator. I still hate it. And I still love it. More to come…

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Trimming strings in Objective-C / Cocoa

Written by Eneko Alonso on July 30, 2009 — Leave a Comment

returnString =  [returnString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:                  [NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]]; Very intuitive, huh?

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Placing a UIActivityIndicartorView on a UIBarButtonItem

Written by Eneko Alonso on July 26, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Have you seen those iPhone apps with a reload button that switches itself to an animated activity indicator while the reload action is being performed? Here is how to do that. Place this code on your ViewController: – (void)showReloadButton {   UIBarButtonItem *refreshItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]     initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemRefresh             [...]

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MyGameOfLife source code

Written by Eneko Alonso on November 28, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Almost a year ago I was learning some Cocoa and I decided it will be fun to implement a Cocoa based version of Conway’s Game of Life. Back then I didn’t publish the source code, not for any special reason. So now I have just uploaded it to Google Code. It’s not fully functional, since [...]

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Eneko Alonso is a software engineer and UI developer with more than eight years of experience in software and web development. He lives in San Luis Obispo, California and works at LEVEL Studios.

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