Welcome

My name is Chris Roper and I'm an amateur iPhone developer. As of this writing, I have four applications on the App Store with my next one set to go up tomorrow (if it's approved by Apple in time) and a sixth nearly done. They aren't complicated applications by any means, but they're fun projects, good learning experiences and help to bring in a little extra cash.

Learning to program for the iPhone hasn't been easy - I majored in computer science for three years at Virginia Tech, but that was more than a decade ago. I never got into Mac programming, so my experience with Objective-C was basically nil. So while I have the fundamental knowledge for how things work, I had to start from scratch with learning most of the syntax, the development environment, single-window UI techniques and more.

My hopes are that by sharing bits of code that I've picked up, I'll be able to help others at a similar starting point get up to speed a little quicker. Please post in the comments and offer up different (or better) ways to handle things, alternative methods that could be useful in other situations and whatever else you can or want to post.

Thanks.