phranker’s Think Tank

NerveGas, a member of the iPhone Dev Team has been working on a book through O’Reilly’s online bookstore, safari.com.

Today he released it on Safari.com Rough Cuts. There are options to buy the book in PDF format or to pre-order a paper copy (to be released in May ‘08), or both. If you sign up with Safari.com you can read it online for free.

I haven’t gotten around to reading the whole thing yet; but it looks promising. Ever since I got my iPhone I have been involved in the development community. Erica of iphonedevdocs.com had put together the best collection of info on the frameworks used to develop apps for the iPhone as well as a nice list of books to use for further research. The books she recommended were for Cocoa Programming on the Mac OS. This book focuses on developing for the iPhone only. I hope after the final release of this book, I won’t need books, but I still want to get it when it comes out.

iPhone Open Application Development at Safari.com

EDIT: I was contacted by NerveGas himself and have removed the link I was given to the pirated copy of his book. I meant no harm in posting the link as I was given it by someone else in the IRC channels last night.

But it’s buggy as all hell. I recommend staying away from it until the bugs are worked out, or the dev teams release a true jailbreak.

It was released by Nate True, a good guy, but it’s not really a jailbreak. It’s a “soft upgrade”, meaning that he took the files from the 1.1.3 restore image directly from Apple and merged them into the filesystem. However, 1.1.3 has a lot of changes, most importantly, how the filesystem is strucured to operate. Apple added a user, mobile, and that user runs all the apps, instead of root which ran them in previous firmwares. This is a good thing that Apple did. It will help keep the apps people write from being able to destroy important system files.

However, Nate True’s release still has all apps being run by root, just as they were in previous firmwares, and that is causing a lot of problems with file/dir permissions. I hope to list some, if not all, of the problems with this jailbreak release by tomorrow.

I got my Installer.app repo/source up and running. Add it to your sources and see what I’ve done.

http://installer.phranker.com

Welcome to my Think Tank. All my iPhone ideas, development progress, and general info will be posted here. I hope this site can help some of you in the community.

Shout out to all the nice peeps at #iphone-dev & #iphone on both iPhone-Dev Team and iPhone-Elite Team.