Over the years I have always enjoyed getting my hands on the latest gadgets, and my time as an Apple developer has been no different, as soon as a phone was announced I’d want to be among the first to get it. This year Apple announced that it would release to multiple countries on the … Read more
If you want to deploy an iOS application provisioned under an enterprise license on an IIS box the steps are simple enough: – Create a folder where the .ipa file will be stored such as \inetpub\wwwroot\myApp – Create a manifest (.plist) file, here is an example of what that should look like [code language=”xml”] <?xml … Read more
Is it ambiguous ? Well at the outset it seems to be. After a swag of updates (iOS 6, Xcode, OSX 10.8.2 ::modem has officially asked for time off now::) I opened an existing client project that was working previously. This project was used during a prototyping session with the client, so why does it … Read more
I was answering posts in a community forum on the weekend when I came across an entry asking for help to build a data grid. The requirement was complex. The poster had expressed at the time that the functionality needed was available in a 3rd party control, but did not want to spend the money … Read more
Ok, it was a simple enough feature to add. A viewer that would allow PDF’s to be shown on screen. Already in my toolkit I had the SyncFusion control, but after a couple of quick tests I found the speed to be woeful and thus started the painful process of looking for a control to … Read more
Welcome to Apple World: Submit – Fail, Submit – Fail, Submit – Fail It certainly was not the first iOS App I had tried to submit, yet here I am, seeing the same ambiguous error: iPhone/iPod Touch: icon.png: icon dimensions (0 x 0) don’t meet the size requirements. The icon file must be 57×57 pixels, … Read more
Ok, enough is enough. How do you fix a problem that cannot be defined? Let me backtrack a little. I new version of insQuote data converter was deployed today. The setup program ran flawlessly, the DLL’s were put in place and the pretty icon was placed on the desktop. The same procedure that has been … Read more
Ok, Apple announced that “as of March, 2012 all apps submitted to the Mac App Store must implement sandboxing”, and since we were preparing the release of our new Set Professional desk top app, it would be a great time to introduce it. Little did I realise that I would spend all afternoon tracking down … Read more
Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInternalInconsistencyException’, reason: ‘*** -[NSCFArray replaceObjectAtIndex:withObject:]: mutating method sent to immutable object’ Ok, so what does it actually mean and why am I getting this on a NSMutableArray…? The error is not so much ‘ambiguous’ as downright misleading. My code clearly shows I am working with a mutable array; NSMutableArray … Read more
A client rang to say they are having problems with a small program I wrote. It has worked for a few months – no problem, then out of the blue they started receiving an error “DB_SEC_E_AUTH_FAILED”. Initially thoughts were security changes or user permissions, so time was spent looking into server changes. (This was a … Read more