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I’ve developed in a number of languages and systems over the years from Windows Batch Files, Perl, PHP, C#, VB, ASP, etc, etc and I absolutely love Visual Studio 2008 and it’s intellisense.

Now I thought I’d dab my hand at iPhone development.  For those that don’t know you have to use a Mac OSX application called Xcode to be able to develop for the iPhone and iPod touch, and then using this in a language called Objective C which seems to be Apple’s own extension to C and C++.  To be honest I’ve never gone down the C++ programming route and it probably wouldn’t have been so difficult had the Apple Developer Documentation been any good but basically before Apple lifted their NDA and allowed discussion about developing for the iPhone it was basically trial and error which insanely cryptic compiler debug errors.

Anyway I’ve solved many of the issues now and coming next I’ll talk about my first App that’s already on the iTunes App Store.