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Facebook App sourcecode

April 28th, 2010 • app, facebook, flash, general • No comments

After beeing asked to publish my sourcecode for the ImageViewer app – here it is:

Notes:

free to use
no warranty
no documentation
osx zip (might cause package problems on win)

Adobe vs Apple – my opinion

April 14th, 2010 • advertising, offTopic • 2 comments

You should give a f*** about my opinion, but i just need to say that. Every dev has heard about the new license agreement of apple affecting iPhone development. Joa (laugheed / cried a lot) and Lee (talking straight) already made a point.

But, consider being an apple executive:

We already have a lot of great apps
Almost no end-customer will be affected by “our” policy change
Every Company desperately wants to build an iPhone App. Mainly caused by spread of iPhones. An iPhone app simply reaches more customers then any other app (right now) would do.
We can have the app exclusive (rollout on android is doable but difficult), if we want to.
Allowing to write apps in CS5 would invite a lot of low skilled developers (not every flash coder is a good coder) to write Apps in no time. Apples QA would have a lot of work caused by Adobe. And apple would have to pay for that overhead.
We earn money with the “big or creative” apps. Like apps from newspapers, shazam and so on. The little flash game will possibly never create that income.
Implementing iAd in CS5 might cause a lot of trouble.
Crashing apps will put Apple in a bad light, not adobe.

To make that clear

I don’t like apples move either, but guessing / knowing the reasons is a good way starting to solve a problem.

And in the end its all about markert power, collecting customer data and money. Sad but true.

Logging Php to Firebug

April 8th, 2010 • browser, debugging, snippet • No comments

Ever wanted to log php to firebug? There are a lot of reasons to do this. E.g. working on apps for a thrd party plattform like myspace.

The logger is a singleton. you can push any date type in it. the coolest part: it encodes the php class as json object.

logging_firebug

i wrapped it in a simple dummy project with some “oop” javascript in it. give it a try and tell me what you think.

and yes, i know firephp ;)

PhpLogging

iPhone objective-c and c++

April 4th, 2010 • iPhone • No comments

if you want to use c++ files in your iphone app do this:

rename the FILE.m in FILE.mm
import the .cpp class

Sample

#import "Foo.cpp"
- (void)aFunction:()
{    
 
 Foo foo = *(new Foo(123));
 NSString *objcString =
[NSString stringWithUTF8String:foo.testStr.c_str()];
 NSLog(@"string test: %@", objcString);
 NSLog(@"foo id start: %i", foo.myId);
 foo.setId(30303);
 NSLog(@"foo id: %i", foo.myId);
}

foo class

#include &lt;string&gt;
 
class Foo
{
 public : int myId;
 public : std::string testStr;
 
 public : Foo(int startVal)
 {
 testStr = "Hallo Welt21212! äöü ß";
 myId = startVal;
 };
 
 public : void setId(int newId)
 {
 myId = newId;
 };
 
 public : void test()
 {
 
 }
};