ohCanada – Winter Games Watch

olympicsapp-spalsh

The Winter Games Watch is simply your portal to the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter games. The application gives you the schedule for each day by date or by event. As well, Winter Games Watch will show you how to get to the venue, should you be so lucky as to heading north this February.

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Callout bubble in MKMapView

custom bubble

All i needed was some custom text in the call out bubble, and then i needed that bubble to appear just as the pin dropped. i spent hours on something that seemed so simple…and actually , it is simple.

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Adding an int or float to an Array or Dictionary

omg, i can’t believe how strict Objective C can be. While working with MKMapView on an iPhone app i am currently writing, i was trying to pass the lattitude and longitude to a custom class. My code looked like:

NSDictionary *locationDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:49.277778,@"lat",-123.108889,@"long",nil];

alas, one must do this:

NSDictionary *locationDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:49.277778],@"lat",[NSNumber numberWithFloat:-123.108889],@"long",nil];

i think i need to start a post of the little things that drive me mad in this crazy language. By far , concatenating a string is the winner.

Tour De France 2010- Rotterdam

Nobody was more excited about the TDF course announcement then myself. However, the Rotterdam video convinces me the better part of the tour will be at the end. Read the rest of this entry »

Diablo?

The one day I wish I had a triple.