Kevin Hoffman

If you're like me, you've probably been spending every waking moment you have eating, living, and breathing the iPhone SDK. Since March 6th, that's pretty much all I can think about once I get home. So, what do you do if you want to learn how to write iPhone apps, but you want to become a pro at iPhone SDK programming? Its one thing to read the SDK, page-by-page until your eyes bleed (what I do for fun), but most people like to hang out with other developers, get hands on, do labs, see demos, and generally get their hands dirty. Lucky for us, there is such an iPhone boot camp co... (more)

Core Data - Almost Too Easy?

Kevin Hoffman's Blog I am working on another sample application that I am using as a means of teaching me some more things about Cocoa and programming on the Mac in general. I have been particularly fascinated with Core Data, so I started using it again in a new application. I have a rather unique perspective on persistence tools because I have probably tested and developed in just about ... (more)

iPhone Will Make Mobile AJAX and Web 2.0 Happen

Kevin Hoffman's Blog (June 11, 2007) - This morning I got to watch Steve Jobs in person do his thing, complete with reality distortion field. Despite rumors to the contrary, I felt no brainwashing tug on my mind, and felt no involuntary compulsion to buy whatever it was Steve was up there selling. I was watching a charismatic CEO do a presentation on some really cool new stuff coming out ... (more)

Why Geeks Just Don't "Get" the Macbook Air

I have seen just about every kind of complaint possible about the Macbook air...but the circles in which I "travel" (by travel, I mean navigate the flood of RSS-based news in the airtight bubble that is a newsreader) are decidedly slanted toward the high end of the geek spectrum. The complains I have seen are varied, but they basically boil down to the following single statement: This d... (more)