New Provisioning Profile Not Working: Fix

My Provisioning Profile for my iPhone app expired, so I renewed it, downloaded it.  Added it into Xcode.  Manually added it to ~/Library/Mobile Devices.  It would build and install onto the device, but when launched via the debugger I received the following output: Error launching remote program: security policy error. The app would terminate, the … Read more

Checkers FS5 Free Pulled From Store

After waiting for Checkers to be pushed into the store from the queue, and watching it’s soft launch this weekend, we noticed some anomalies in the ratings.  We’ve come to have certain expectations of the ratings. The Checkers FS5 Free was receiving an inordinate number of low ratings.  No comments explaining or support emails about … Read more

Versions and svn merge

We had a project that included extern links to many subprojects. (They were subprojects because we use them across several projects.) The subjects had a iPhone 3.0 branch created for them, and developed against the new SDK. Out of laziness, we redirected the extern links to the 3.0 branch when it was desired. In reality, … Read more

Store Kit: Micro Payments

When Apple announced their iPhone 3.0 software, they announced an API‡ called StoreKit. This is a small collection of interfaces to facilitate purchases via Apple. It is, of course, still subject to the 30% cut by Apple – they are about to become even richer on the App Store. (Since they are not providing hosting … Read more

Tracking Through iPhone Source

There are many better ways to trace through your code in any environment than with print statements.  If there’s not, you need to change jobs (or convince them to choose an environment that won’t waste all your time chasing bugs). Your first order of business should be to familiarize yourself with your debugger. However, there … Read more

Category in Page

I hacked into the page.php file, tested for the page I wanted to convert, and added the LOOP code from category.php file to run instead when it hit that page. I also had to reset the query when that occurred. The pages are kept in the wp_post table and their post_type=’page’, That’s how I found … Read more