viewWillAppear

This is me right now: http://xkcd.com/621/

I've tried updating my blog on a regular basis and I fail. I'm just going to not commit on any level. But I'll post what I learned yesterday.

I was working on an iphone project and I needed to check a property list to see if a value existed, if it doesn't exist, I need to slide in a new modal view, add the information I need, then move the modal view out of the way and update the initial view with the data that was entered.

I learned about viewWillAppear. Basically it is called by the delegate whenever this....here it comes..."view will appear". Imagine that. In this case, I update the view to reflect the new data from the user. When the modal view goes away, the new data is updated.



Seem's easy to you, but it's all greek to me still.

Starting a new environment

I have a wonderful opportunity to start an entirely new development environment. This opportunity came to me as I was at the apple store today and got a fresh install of an OS on a blank drive on an old macbook.

So I'm looking at this:
OS X v 10.5.6 - thanks to the genius at apple
Python 2.5.1 - installed with OS
Django 0.96.3 - matches the google app engine version, or close to it
Google App Engine 1.2 - Its what is available

And it works...

So I guess all it takes to get stuff running is a completely fresh machine. I had roughly 0 issues with this. All installs were seamless.

Back in the day when I used to play around I seem to remember environments being about 40x harder to install. This was trivial. Awesome.

Tomorrow I'll get Django and Google App Engine playing together.