Today I spent ages trying to create a git repository for my existing XCode projects, after much googling and trial and error I finally worked it out.
My problem was that my Mac / XCode expects git to be in /usr/bin/git so I just had to create a symlink
1) sudo ln -s /usr/local/git/bin/git /usr/bin/git
2) CD to your project folder
3) Type git init
4) Type git add .
5) Type git commit -m “Initial Commit”
6) Re open XCode and it should now be working under the newly created git repository.
Well it’s been a few days since I received my iPad, my initial thoughts when opening the box was wow it really is a giant iPhone, it is also heavier than I expected as well.
I’m struggling to find a day to day use for the iPad, it’s great for using whilst in front of the TV or in Bed in the morning to check emails / browse the internet but apart from that I have not used it much yet.
Maybe it’s just that there are not many good iPad applications out there at the moment, I have downloaded the WordPress iPad application but it seems rather limited, there is also no Facebook application, calculator or clock application.
How is everyone else getting on with the iPad in the UK?
Yesterday I struggled for ages trying to get my iPad on the O2 3G Network, first of all you should install the micro sim into your iPad then sync with iTunes, this downloads new mobile carrier details to enable 3G. However in my case the APN Details were incomplete and it took me ages to work out what to do.
Under Settings – Cellular Data – APN you need to have the following entered:
APN: ibrowse.o2.co.uk
Username: browse
Password: password
I also found that you could only register your micro sim on the iPad, which is also very confusing at first I disabled WiFi and launched Safari, a pop up appeared and mentioned that I was not registered for 3G Network and would I like to register, when I clicked Now i got an error not found message.
To register i enabled WiFi Network then went to settings Cellular Data and clicked a register button in this screen, this took me through a wizard which let me choose my data plan and then pay via credit / debit card.
It’s a shame the iPad / O2 does not make this more simple It would be great if you was not registered and only on 3G that the Safari popup asking you to register actually worked and allowed you to register, as it seems a shame for WiFi to be a requirement for registering for 3G.
Calc VAT has now been available in the iPhone app store for almost five months, and was first released on the 1st August 2009. The application started off as a fairly simple one and took me by surprise when it quickly climbed the UK Top 100 Charts and reached the number two spot on the 30th August.
Since then a lot has changed with the application and two major versions were released, however over the past two weeks we have started to see that Calc VAT iTunes rank is slowly dropping and now it is time to take action.
VAT Calculator Rank
The Vat Calculator application seems perfectly fine but with the help of some users on the iPhone SDK Forum I now have the following action items to take:
- Update app icon to look better and match the application look / colors.
- Rank Higher on Google for particular terms such as “VAT Calculator iPhone”
- Edit the application iTunes Description – mention recent reviews.
- Update this website with more up to date pictures of Calc VAT.
- Create a new video of the application.
There is quite a few actions to do, and hopefully at the end we should start to see the Calc VAT rankings improve.
It would be great if apple in the future provided.
- Analytical data – It would be great to see exactly how buyers find our applications.
- A way to communicate with buyers.
Last night I ran into some issues whilst trying to code sign my new application and found that I had to upgrade to the latest version of XCode to be able to install the application on my iPhone.
However once I had upgraded XCode to the latest version version, the application would then install on the iPhone but it then gave me a new error which I have not seen before and this puzzled me because the provisioning profile had not expired and was installed correctly.
After much googling i found that it is perhaps a bug with the new version of XCode basically if you have any other provisioning profiles installed which have expired it will stop your new applications from running until you either remove the expired profiles or update them.
As you can see from the picture below I had many profiles installed which have all expired so I deleted these and the new application works fine.
September 25th, 2009
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Today apple have approved my latest application “Calc My Margins” which is a profit margin calculator for the iPhone.
If you find it hard work to remember the formula for calculating profit margins then this application is perfect for you, simply enter the item cost price and use the application picker to select a percentage for your margin.
The application will then instantly calculate the sell price and show you the gross margin, what makes this application great is that you can easily slide the percentage amount with your finger i.e. 20% to 22% and you can instantly see what the new sell price would be.
Calc My Margins - iPhone screenshot
Features:
- Easy to use interface
- Simple to use
- Profit Margin Calculations on the fly
- Local currency symbols ($, £, €)
App store link: Profit Margin Calculator – Calc My Margins
September 19th, 2009
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The past few weeks and months have been super busy ones, during this time I have been doing a lot of new work mainly working on www.onesmarthost.co.uk and also learning Objective C and iPhone programming so far it is all going well, at the moment I am learning in stages and producing mini apps with the end goal being able to produce a bigger and unique application.
Coming from a DotNet / PHP background has helped me a lot however Objective C and XCode is a new area to me, i was stunned at the first when I went to add a button and click event in VB.NET it’s simple drag a button to the form double click it and type Messagebox.show(“hello world”) however in XCode theres quite a few more steps to be made, however after working with XCode I’m rather liking the new way of coding, its fun and entertaining.
Since June I have decided to remove my first iPhone app from the app store “iTucker”, with the aim to persue writing better apps and also where I hold full copyright to the content
My newest application is Calc VAT, and I will post more information about this in the coming days.
In terms of the blog here I will be posting my ramblings (hopefully not too much), news about my new apps and also how to information on iPhone Dev or Web Hosting.
