Comments for White Peak Software Blog

Comment on Adding Placeholder Text to UITextView by kirbyt

kirbyt — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:27:42 +0000

Not sure I understand what it is you are trying to accomplish. awakeFromNib is called when the nib is unarchived. You should not set the placeholderText in this method. Instead, set the placeholderText in viewDidLoad or in viewWillAppear:.

-KIRBY

Comment on Adding Placeholder Text to UITextView by Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:45:37 +0000

Is there a way to reload the placeholder after the view in which the modified textView is on disappears? The nib I have the KTTextView on is used multiple times. After it is used the first time the placeholder no longer appears. Does the awakeFromNib method only run the first time the nib is loaded?

Comment on An Exciting Opportunity or a Nightmare in the Making? by Scott

Scott — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:09:53 +0000

Seriously interesting post mate. Love the bit about lawyers…I’m in a similar situation and it rings out oh so true…my lawyers are the best in the world, the others are from the dark side and dabble in black magic, goat slaughter, cow worship etc etc

Comment on An Exciting Opportunity or a Nightmare in the Making? by Joe Collins

Joe Collins — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:19:51 +0000

Great post! Glad to hear I am not the only one that has felt the nightmare business arrangement. You made the right move my friend. It would of been a lot easier for them and you to have left it at the original verbal agreement in written form. When things get into the liability and control issues it gets way to complex and is truthfully not worth it to either side. There will always be “what if’s”, but the truth of the matter is that they would be able to promote something, to enhance their business, that they would not have otherwise had in the first place.

Comment on An Exciting Opportunity or a Nightmare in the Making? by Kirby Turner

Kirby Turner — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:16:49 +0000

Andrew Kimpton makes a very good point on Twitter about the final sentence in the posting. "Take the money it would've cost and invest it in 'yourself' & your products, likely a more satisfying payback." Oh so true, Andrew. Oh so true.

Comment on Turbo Pascal on iPad by kirbyt

kirbyt — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:28:22 +0000

Hi Jay. I know the feeling. I missed out on Talking Chuck Boy the other day.

Comment on Turbo Pascal on iPad by Jay

Jay — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:19:45 +0000

A terrible case of ‘you snooze, you lose’. iDOS appears to have been pulled.

Comment on Turbo Pascal on iPad by Rod

Rod — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:31:05 +0000

Kirby,

This is awesome. Seems like UNZIP is already available with iDOS, so you can skip the unzip program.
Ah, the days of writing Pascal code…

Comment on My Initial Thoughts on the Mac App Store by Jon Trainer

Jon Trainer — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:43:23 +0000

There is much to be concerned about with the new Mac App Store. Demos, upgrades, lack of direct customer contact, the broken user reviews system, and especially the submission guidelines.

But, if the iOS App Store is any indication of exposure to new customers, this could be a huge boon for small developers.

I worry that Apple doesn’t understand the 3rd party Mac software ecosystem, but who knows maybe they have something. Either way, it clearly can’t be ignored.

Interesting times indeed.

Comment on My App Store Pricing Experiment: The Final Chapter by Darren Lancaster

Darren Lancaster — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:33:33 +0000

Kirby,

My finger-in-the-air analysis matches yours. I think the mixture of good enough (means ratings of 4+) and cheapest wins the most volume in the App Store. Thanks for sharing though and good luck getting the momentum back!

Darren