37Signals has created a page with their basecamp customers. To participate you need a photo, city name, company name and description. Like such a fun stuff.
Guys made a good job, wish them luck and insipartion.
PS. Yeah, that’s me wearing in a national colors.
Originally I’ve found the link on the beautifulpixels.com. Thanks, guys. You post interesting content.
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It’s left quite a negative impression from last time I faced with plain C/C++ like code. That was a necessity to use huge Boost library with all related problems. As they say – “Nothing personal”, it works pretty fast and code event elegantly somewhere, but an instrument is effective only when you know it well enough. Or at least you have time and wish to learn it. That’s not my case. I’d not say the Boost is easy to adapt for objective-c users, rather it isn’t.
Since then I try to avoid plain C/C++, especially when it based on huge template hierarchies. But sometimes somewhere the numerous iOS API we should have to write C like code.
This time I had to assign an url (or any other information) to existing contact from AddressBook. I was surprised to see such a non–objectivec API. Hope that’s simply a necessary, but I’m sure it’s a “thing from the past”. Since it has taken more than 5 mins as it shouldn’t to be, I want share that piece of code:
Show dialog to select an existing person (contact):
- (void) showAddressBook{ ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *picker = [[ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc] init]; picker.peoplePickerDelegate = self; [self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES]; [picker release];}
Some delegate’s methods:
- (void)peoplePickerNavigationControllerDidCancel: (ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *) peoplePicker { [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];} - (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController*) peoplePicker shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person property:(ABPropertyID) property identifier:(ABMultiValueIdentifier)identifier{ return NO;}
and the main part – add new field with string to selected person profile:
- (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController :(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *) peoplePicker shouldContinueAfter SelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person { CFErrorRef anError = NULL; ABMutableMultiValueRef urls = ABRecordCopyValue (person, kABPersonURLProperty); urls = ABMultiValueCreateMutableCopy(urls); ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(urls, @"Marked programmatically", CFSTR("Info"), NULL); ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonURLProperty, urls, &anError);if (anError) { return NO; } CFRelease(urls) ; ABAddr essBookSave (peoplePicker. addressBook, NULL); [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES]; return NO;}
Sorry for the delay, but we were really busy the whole September. Fall came and people went back to normal operation after a sunny Summer. There are so much cool projects and new partners here, you won’t believe. All over the world.
The team is growing also. We’ve just absorbed a very pleasant and responsible guy. Kostia is just an intern, but takes a part in commercials and maintains own inner project already. Will post about that soon.
