Course Funding

To help pay for the course I was surprised how many possible funding options I found.   The following were useful and EEDA R2R paid for my iPhone Course which was obviously a great help.

EEDA Response to redundancy funding
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TechFluff

Core Data

I have found the following book really good for getting my head around core data....

Core Data: Apple's API for Persisting Data on Mac OS X by Marcus S. Zarra

Also, the following tutorials by Manning really helped me understand how Core Data deals with one-many relationships using NSSet....

Manning Core Data Tutorials

iOS SDK 4

Firstly I had to upgrade to Snow Leopard and after a 12 hour wait (my lovely Internet connection!) - I actually successfully installed iOS SDK 4!

Although after 5 minutes excitement - I realised that nothing seemed to work now!

I had changed my 'project settings' to the correct version but a few lines of code and background colours that I had chosen seemed to conflict with the upgrade.   I am glad that my iPhone application has not been published yet as I am sure such changes are very difficult when your app is already live.   It is good to see the type of changes that an upgrade can cause in a nice (safe!) test environment.

TinyUrl and Bit.ly

Added application page from my website www.vitvot.co.uk to http://Bit.ly 

It is now also known as -

bit.ly/imadethisapp

The advantage of adding my site to bit.ly is that I now have a short URL that is specific to my application.   I can also access stats on how/who my site is being accessed by.

Another company that offers a similar function is tinyurl.com.