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In 1985 Larry Tesler developed a Pascal flavour for Apple, Object Pascal, that became the standard language for System 6. It was based on Clascal, a 1983 Pascal variant for the Lisa, also developed at Apple.
Object Pascal was used in MacApp, Apple's primary application framework at the time. MacApp 3.0, released in 1991, was re-written in C++ and Apple ...
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You need not abandon Java as yet. From an Apple press release dated November 12, 2010 titled Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X:
Apple also confirmed that Java SE 6
will continue to be available from
Apple for Mac OS X Snow Leopard® and
the upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion.
Java SE 7 and future versions of Java
for Mac ...
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A few things to ask/document (may or may not be what you're looking for):
What 3rd party libraries/tools/etc are used?
How do you build it? Anything special required for a build?
What are the valid targets for the build (OS, version, etc)? (from World Engineer's comment)
Where is the source located? How is change managed (releases, branches, etc)?
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Having two computers gives you opportunity to run two operating systems without hassle of virtualization (in my case it's Ubuntu and Win7). And even with both running same OS, you can for example run applications consuming lot of resources, without affecting more interactive stuff running on another machine.
Another advantage is ability to use multiple ...
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The best informed site is: http://developer.apple.com/.They provide a whole section named iOS Dev Center. They even provide tutorials, users guides and reference manuals and IDE as well.
In iTtunes store/ iTunesU, there are some free lesson series you can start with them. Look for the latest one 2011 Fall.
how long will it take to be familiar with the ...
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The Apple ][ was generally programmed in either BASIC or 6502 machine code.
The Lisa was generally programmed in Pascal.
Early Macintosh apps were written in Pascal, first on the Lisa and later on the Mac itself.
Think Pascal was the most popular development environment for a time and then Think C. Think C had lightweight objects, sometimes referred to as ...
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In my opinion working on two machines simultaneously is more hassle than it's worth. It makes sense only when you need two different operating systems, which is not the case here. Otherwise, it just brings additional overhead of managing both machines, synchronizing data between them, and asking questions like this.
I would suggest you to sell the older ...
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Nah, I wouldn't worry about it.
First off, Apple's two main compiler toolchains (gcc and clang) both continue to support it. In fact, the main page for clang repeatedly indicates support for Objective C++ is a "goal of the Clang project".
Second, unlike MSDN, Apple frequently changes their online technical documentation, and links to articles on their ...
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It depends on where you want to go:
C#: will have the shortest learning curve if you already know java, but M$ dependent like you said. If you want to do anything with windows, C# is a great choice.
C++: not worth it IMHO as its more difficult to use. Inherent lower-level makes it better for game programming.
VB.NET: I agree with you, if you want a CLI ...
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Application stores, which force the user to go through them (as this happens on iPhone), dramatically change the business scene for software vendors.
With "old-style" approach the user needed to go to the search engine to find an application he needs or to rely on friends' suggestions or magazine articles. This made it possible for developers to create a ...
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The University of Washington's Extension Program has a 3-class, 9-month certification curriculum in iOS and Mac Application Development. I think the coursework is in-class only, but there might be an online option as well. UW is a very well respected university.
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A big problem with trying to be tricky is you never know when/if someone who purchased your app will run it again. I am assuming you don't have some sort of registration involved with your app where you have contact information of your users, that would be too easy.
Probably the best way:
Introduce a new version that is free and keep the paid version. ...
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Apple used to specifically advertise that it was an excellent platform for scientific development, because they supported all major language platforms.
Compared to Apple's current main business - mp3 players, cell phones and associated toy apps - the potential extra income from offering a scientific development platform is negligible. Money talks.
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If you want to know what's on the App Store, look at the App Store.
I don't think you are going to produce good work if you start by asking yourself, "What should I not do?"
Come up with a few ideas for apps, then search the App Store for them. If you find a dozen apps already there, you can avoid that category. (Unless you think you can do something much ...
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First, I would thank the employer for getting me such nice gear. Courtesy is sadly lacking in today's workplace. Next, I would look at what it is that I need to do for the employer, and if it REQUIRED Linux (i.e., direct dependence on a particular set of binaries in a distribution) I would set up a virtual environment to host it (I am partial to VMWare - to ...
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Ok, there will be a whole raft of factors that might contribute to this - not just the keyboard.
Things to consider include
Your height relative to the desk
Your position relative to the desk
Your position relative to the keyboard (how close/far away you are)
Where your hands/wrists/forearms rest when using the keyboard
Where your monitor is - as this ...
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Don't worry too much about registering under your dad's name. iTunes Connect allows you to choose a "company name" to list your software under, which can basically be anything you choose. Your dad's name will be listed in iTunes Connect, but your customers won't see it. See the iTunes Connect user's guide for more information.
The only concern is it may be ...
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It is their right to reject whatever they want from the app store because they own the app store.
Think about the guy who wrote a JVM (limited) app for the appstore and it was rejected outright, probably because they feared it would be easier to write applications in Java for the iPhone than in Objective C.
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Apple has this scenario covered. Your client will need to join the iOS dev program so they can post things to the store. They can then add you to their program for development certificates and such if you don't have your own as well as provision an iTunes connect account for you to publish to the store on their behalf.
I would advise getting your own iOS ...
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The standard language of Mac OS Classic was Pascal. The OS's API documentation was all written for Pascal, and as much of the OS as was not written in hand-optimized ASM was written in Pascal.
After transitioning to the PowerPC architecture, they rewrote the OS in C++, accompanied by a very noticeable decrease in system stability, which will not be ...
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Yes, there are bots that auto down applications in order to boost rankings of applications:
View Article Here
Your downloads were most likely used as a way to mask the fact they are downloading specific apps to boost rankings. So 20 bots download Angry Birds (for example), 2 of those also download yours and some others to make it look like normal usage.
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I made the same switch this year. I've been a web developer since 1998, and last April got hired by a company that basically did the same thing--sold some iPhone projects and then figured out how to deliver them.
It was a solid month before I wrote ANYTHING that ended up in production code. That month was one of the most intense periods of learning I've ...
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When I was in the same situation, I would have most benefitted from being told what parts of the application to really focus on as the keystone to learning the app. A lot of reading someone else's code is going to be involved regardless, but might as well be given a "table of contents" for that reading.
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While Michael Dean has already given a pretty comprehensive answer, I will add one further piece of advice, as I assume your old developer isn't going to be around to do a hand over when the new developer starts:
Sit down with the existing developer and work through compiling the
code from scratch, documenting the procedure yourself.
You don't need to ...
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There are three options:
If it's more than 100 devices, get the client to sign up to an Apple Enterprise account then they can deploy the app via an ad-hoc build to all their employee's devices without needing to individually add each device UDID to the provisioning profile. (If it's less than 100 devices they can just get a regular developer account, but ...
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The courts should never have allowed Apple to sue using that patent, but the simple solution is not to do overscroll anywhere but on iOS.
Be creative. Come up with a different way elsewhere. Overscroll isn't the only way of showing that a user has reached the end.
On Android 4.0+, they create a glow at the bottom (or top) that grows as the user continues ...
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Don't know what you app is, but have you considered/would a data driven model work for you - the app would not need to change and the data can be downloaded of servers you provide and manage. Maybe a (yet another) DSL would be of use.
Another alternate is how locked into Apple are you? Build you business on Android - then you have the choice to use a ...
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I am not a lawyer, etc.
Take a look at IOS Standard Agreement 3.3.9 which says collection of "user or device data" must be consented to. I think that it's cool to collect data relating to your own application's behavior. For instance, I track what are essentially "page hits" within my travel app to try to judge popularity (I do disclose it, because I don't ...
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Depends On What You Do
Java is also probably not dead, there will be a JVM, it's a very popular language and Oracle can't allow the Apple platform to simply die. Why you are writing Apps in Java baffles me, you don't write GUI's in Java.1
I've recently come back to programming
in the last year or so since I
originally learnt on ye olde BASIC
many ...
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This depends on who owns the application.
If the application, copyright and IP are under the ownership of the client, then it should be done under their licence, you can not be responsible for the application once your term with the client is complete.
However, if you retain ownership of the application, then you should be held responsible for the ...
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