http://www.geekycoders.com Latest News, Updates, and Tutorials from the GeekyCoders. Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:57:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After two years in the app store and a number of important updates and new additions, our top 10 app has just been given a fresh lick of paint with a complete design overhaul. http://www.geekycoders.com/blog/2013/03/uk-tax-calculators-iphone-ipad-app/ Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:20:47 +0000 Hi everyone, Ray here. With just over 4 months of development time, around 500 hours of learning game programming, learning vector drawing, and geometry and physic based head scratching, our first iOS game is complete! Parcel Dogs for iPhone/iPod and Parcel Dogs HD for iPad were submitted to Apple for inclusion to the App Store a few days ago. http://www.geekycoders.com/blog/2012/03/parcel-dogs-game-for-iphone-ipad/ Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:14:53 +0000 Our foray into App development for Apple iPhone's started on 4th August 2011, the day our developer account was approved! With no previous iPhone specific programming knowledge, I started a fast-track 'learning while producing' approach to pick up the various different technologies to use: XCode 4 - This is the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) you use to write your code and design your user interfaces. Objective C - This is the primary coding language used by iOS devices. You also use some C functions as well, but primarily for creation of classes, objects and sending messages (using methods) it is Objective C http://www.geekycoders.com/blog/2011/09/Our-First-iPhone-App/ Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:33:08 +0000 If you want your cloud server to be provide access to your websites via the Internet, you will need to install a bit of 'web server' software. There are a few different options available to you in this regard, but the two main web server applications we use are: Apache Web Server nginx http://www.geekycoders.com/blog/2011/07/installing-and-configuring-nginx-web-server-with-php-and-mysql/ Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:14:36 +0000 Following on from our first post on creating and setting up a rackspace cloud server instance, we go into detail here about further basic configurations for your server: FTP Time, Time Zone Postfix for outbound mail http://www.geekycoders.com/blog/2011/07/setting-up-a-cloud-server-part-two/ Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:53:43 +0000 First of all, welcome to Geekycoders.com - the online home of our application development company. This is the first entry to our very own development blog. Over the next few months we will be focusing mainly upon iOS development as we begin giving life to a few game ideas we have. But first, let's take a look at how this website was created! http://www.geekycoders.com/blog/2011/07/setting-up-a-cloud-server-part-one/ Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:26:00 +0000