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Kevin Hoffman
Kevin Hoffman, editor-in-chief of SYS-CON's "iPhone Developer's Journal" is one of the most popular "iPhone" and "Silverlight" bloggers on the Net. Kevin has been programming since he was 10 and has written everything from DOS shareware to n-tier, enterprise Web applications in VB, C++, Delphi, and C. He is coauthor of Professional .NET Framework (Wrox Press) and co-author with Robert Foster of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed. Kevin authors "The .NET Addict's Blog" at ".Net Developer's Journal" (dotnetaddict.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com). |
Leopard Code Sample: A
Bound NSCollectionView By Kevin Hoffman  Leopard introduces a
bunch of amazingly
powerful new controls,
but one of my favorite
new controls is the
NSCollectionView. This
control works a lot like
the FlowLayoutPanel if
you're familiar with
Windows Presentation
Foundation (WPF). It
essentially is a layout ... Nov. 1, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 11,375 Replies: 1 | My Leopard Installation
Experience By Kevin Hoffman I've actually seen a few
reports of people having
trouble with the upgrade
- their computer hangs at
the bootup screen for
hours on end. Since I
didn't 'upgrade' (like a
good boy, I reformatted
and started over) I
didn't experience the
hour-long hangs, however,
I ... Oct. 31, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 10,294 Replies: 1 | iPhone Developer
Landscape After the
iPhone SDK Announcement By Kevin Hoffman  So Steve Jobs has finally
announced the
availability of the
iPhone SDK. It will be
available sometime in
February of 2008.There
are a lot of compelling
reasons to build web
applications for the
iPhone. If you're already
thinking of an
application then you
might ... Oct. 23, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 11,038 | iPhone News: Leopard
Shipping October 26th By Kevin Hoffman  The word on the rumor
mill is that Mac OS X
Leopard will be shipping
on October 26th. While
this is good news for
some people, this is
freaking great news for
me. Why? Because after
the 26th I will finally
be able to do blog posts
that contain information
on Leopa... Oct. 17, 2007 08:30 AM Reads: 11,796 Replies: 2 | Microsoft Unveils an MVC
Framework for ASP.NET By Kevin Hoffman  Just this morning I saw a
blog post containing some
details about Microsoft's
new and upcoming MVC
framework for ASP.NET.
I'm actually a little
shocked - the sheer
amount of 'stuff' that is
being piled into the
Visual Studio 2008
release is positively
staggering, ... Oct. 16, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 9,719 Replies: 1 | Thoughts on iPhone
Hacking By Kevin Hoffman  There are really two
different kinds of
hacking going on here.
The first kind is where
people use applications
of varying degrees of
difficulty (it's actually
getting pretty easy
now...) to 'jailbreak'
the iPhone, which allows
foreign software to be
installed on i... Oct. 8, 2007 03:45 PM Reads: 12,172 Replies: 1 | Open Source .NET Code?
Here is My Cynical
Reaction... By Kevin Hoffman  The ability that I will
have to debug code within
Visual Studio 2008 will
be unprecedented. Why?
Because now instead of
having to use third party
tools to dissasemble
Microsoft libraries so
that I can get a deep
stack trace and figure
out exactly where
something b... Oct. 8, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 8,547 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Unveils an MVC
Framework for ASP.NET By Kevin Hoffman  Having spent so much of
my life working with
real, live,
production-running
ASP.NET applications
(which includes real,
live, production-sized
headaches!) I am
definitely curious about
this new MVC framework.
Admittedly I'm a little
jaded because I figure
any ent... Oct. 8, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 7,622 Replies: 1 | Wil Shipley Discusses the
Lack of iPhone SDK By Kevin Hoffman I think we'd all be able
to stomach the lack of
SDK if Apple gave us the
impression that they were
working on it. Instead of
throwing the AJAX
pacifier at us and saying
'Sweet.', they could have
simply said that they
were working on a real
SDK and that AJAX would
... Oct. 7, 2007 09:15 AM Reads: 8,413 Replies: 1 | iPhone Will Make Mobile
AJAX and Web 2.0 Happen By Kevin Hoffman And finally Steve gets
around to the iPhone.
Basically he says that
through Web 2.0 and AJAX,
you can create
applications for the
iPhone because the iPhone
is running the full,
uncut, unaltered version
of the same Safari engine
that is now running on
Mac OS X Leop... Oct. 7, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 33,777 | My iPhone Review - No
Native IM which Sucks! By Kevin Hoffman No IM. Ok, this is a big
sore spot. This one
sucks. You can't use
Google Talk because the
widget requires Flash (I
tried...trust me, it
doesn't work). There's no
native AIM, Yahoo!, or
MSN support. There are a
couple of web pages that
you can go to that
simulate t... Oct. 7, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 16,641 Replies: 1 | Meebo on My iPhone A
Useable IM Client By Kevin Hoffman Just thought I would send
up a quick post to let
people know that I've
just tried out Meebo on
my iPhone. It takes a few
seconds to get signed in,
but once you're in, it's
actually quite nice.
Single-click a buddy to
open a chat window with
them. Double-tap the blue... Oct. 7, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 8,719 Replies: 2 | What is an iPhone
Application? By Kevin Hoffman  This is the first article
in a series that I plan
on writing about iPhone
application development.
The first thing you
should know is that these
articles will not cover
anything related to
taking existing content
sites and making them
more 'iPhone-friendly'.
While... Oct. 7, 2007 08:30 AM Reads: 16,371 Replies: 2 | iPhone Keyboard and How
to Use It? By Kevin Hoffman The other day I was
chatting with a friend
and he was taking notes
about some things using
his iPhone. I commented
on how unbelievably fast
it seemed he was able to
type using the keyboard.
Up until recently, I've
been 'OK' at using the
keyboard but I never
really... Oct. 4, 2007 11:30 PM Reads: 12,530 Replies: 2 | Silverlight and Astoria -
First Impressions By Kevin Hoffman As you know, Silverlight
is a new RIA enabling
technology from
Microsoft. Slightly less
publicized but no less
impactful is another
technology from Microsoft
- Astoria. Astoria is a
tool that combines the
power of the ADO.NET
Entity Framework with the
new enhanced... Sep. 25, 2007 08:00 PM Reads: 24,441 Replies: 1 | Yet Another Half-App From
Google By Kevin Hoffman  What I need is a rich
desktop application that
can save files to my hard
drive and if I need to
make a shared copy, I can
save to a shared
location. If Google gave
me a good 'Save As...'
location from inside my
MS Word or Pages '08
application, I might use
it. Unt... Sep. 19, 2007 10:15 AM Reads: 8,114 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Silverlight is
the Official Streaming
Media Provider of the
Emmy Awards! By Kevin Hoffman So, picture this
situation. I'm sitting in
my living room poking
around catching up on
news feeds and reading
the latest of my favorite
comic strips. In the
background is one of
those cheezy
star-watching shows like
Entertainment Tonight or
whatever - I usually le... Sep. 17, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 11,387 Replies: 1 | Can You Afford the iPhone
Bill for International
Data Roaming? By Kevin Hoffman  'They have periodic
updates on their data
files, and they translate
into megabucks,' Levy
said. 'This is akin to
your bank having
automatic access to your
ATM machine and is
siphoning money out
during all times of the
day and night without
your knowledge.'
Actua... Sep. 12, 2007 02:15 PM Reads: 11,102 Replies: 4 | Time to Build iPhone
Applications Using Web
2.0 Technologies! By Kevin Hoffman  So, for those of you who
were on the fence about
building iPhone
applications using Web
2.0 technologies, think
about this: Your
potential list of
application users is
about to grow beyond
users of the iPhone, and
will include a crapload
of people buying new
iPo... Sep. 11, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 17,581 Replies: 1 | Why Is iPhone Better?
Here's My Story... By Kevin Hoffman If you take a look at the
success of the Nintendo
Wii, you'll see an
innovative device with an
incredibly compelling
user interaction design
(the Wiimote, nunchuck,
steering wheels, fitness
pads, etc). The device
itself has what the
industry might actually
refer t... Sep. 7, 2007 12:30 AM Reads: 24,442 Replies: 5 | iPhone Price Cut? Here is
My Objective View on
This! By Kevin Hoffman So yesterday I was
happily catching up on my
RSS feeds when I noticed
that there was some Apple
buzz. I took a look and
saw some photos of the
new iPod Touch, which is
basically an iPhone that
can only use WiFi instead
of EDGE and obviously has
no phone in it. It's ... Sep. 7, 2007 12:30 AM Reads: 21,445 Replies: 9 | Cocoa and .NET
Programming: Progress
Update By Kevin Hoffman While I'm not at the
point where I can divulge
any of the official Table
of Contents yet, I
thought I would put up a
quick post letting people
know that I'm still
alive. You may have
noticed that my post
count is a little low
lately. I have a pile of
code samples ... Sep. 6, 2007 09:45 AM Reads: 6,151 | How To Create a
Silverlight App That
Consumes a POX Service By Kevin Hoffman First off, it might be
worth it to note that
there is a Silverlight
'Quick Start' for
performing this task. The
problem is that the Quick
Start sucks. It actually
tells you to go off and
follow the directions for
creating a basic ASP.NET
Web Service - which is
wro... Sep. 5, 2007 09:15 PM Reads: 16,703 Replies: 1 | Scrobbles, Diggs, Flickrs
and Tags of Web 2.0 - Oh
My! By Kevin Hoffman The first principle is
fairly obvious. The
application has to be
useful for someone to
want to use it. Not only
should it be useful, but
it should be compelling,
interesting, and it
couldn't hurt to follow
some of the new design
styles and ideas floating
around in... Jul. 27, 2007 10:45 PM Reads: 16,211 Replies: 8 | Acropolis or Acrapolis? By Kevin Hoffman The previous CTP of
Acropolis felt bloated,
slow, and the development
was tedious. I kept
telling myself that the
suffering is for the
greater good because a
composited, loosely
coupled, building-block
style application will be
easier to maintain and
easier to upg... Jul. 25, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 7,276 Replies: 1 | Astoria Client Library
Available for Silverlight
1.1 Alpha By Kevin Hoffman As you probably know,
Silverlight is
Microsoft's new RIA
technology platform. It
purports to provide a
single development
platform that will allow
you to deploy WPF-like
rich applications to
multiple operating
systems through multiple
browsers. For example,
you ... Jul. 24, 2007 06:45 AM Reads: 11,021 Replies: 1 | Astoria and the Semantic
Web By Kevin Hoffman Tools like Astoria are a
fantastic tool by which
we can expose data in a
way that jives with the
vision of the semantic
web. The problem is that
there are business
concerns to exposing data
on the web, not the least
of which is of course
-how do you charge people
... Jul. 22, 2007 09:00 PM Reads: 12,648 Replies: 1 | Hot and Steamy Mac on
Vista Action By Kevin Hoffman What I really like about
Bonjour isn't that you
can use it to discover
nearby iTunes libraries
for music sharing (that's
how iTunes actually does
use Bonjour) or that you
can use Bonjour to
discover nearby printers
(also a legitimate use,
that's how I discovered
m... Jul. 20, 2007 10:00 PM Reads: 9,161 Replies: 1 | Will Silverlight Be DOA? By Kevin Hoffman In short, unless my
findings are incorrect,
Silverlight, as it stands
now, with no support for
data binding, service
consumption, or basic UI
controls, is a worthless
steamy pile. I just took
a huge step in Flex's
direction. Jun. 29, 2007 05:00 AM Reads: 34,526 Replies: 14 | My 2008 Wishlist : A
Transformers MMORPG By Kevin Hoffman  So I was watching a bunch
of video clips from the
Transformers movie the
other day (pretty much
what I do every
evening...) and I got to
thinking : it would be
ridiculously cool to have
a Transformers MMO. If
you think hard about it,
it could have everything
that ... Jun. 26, 2007 07:15 PM Reads: 10,873 Replies: 3 | Issues with Acropolis... By Kevin Hoffman I have been poking around
inside Acropolis for a
little while now and have
been attempting to make
it work for some sample,
proof-of-concept style
apps. Basically whenever
I get a new technology in
my grubby little hands, I
don't stick to 'Hello
World' apps, I try a... Jun. 22, 2007 07:15 PM Reads: 8,308 Replies: 1 | The Dreaded Language
Bleed-Over Has Begun By Kevin Hoffman You think that everything
is going your way today,
but you're wrong. Happily
listening to your music-
noise-cancelling
headphones blotting out
the screeching whine of
nearby co-workers- you
are unaware of the
impending doom. You're
kicking ass and taking
names, th... Jun. 20, 2007 08:45 PM Reads: 6,903 Replies: 2 | Microsoft Codename
Acropolis Unwrapped By Kevin Hoffman In case you've been
living under a rock, or
you don't spend all day
hitting Refresh on
Microsoft sites waiting
for new stuff to come
out, Acropolis is a new
framework currently in
CTP (Community Technology
Preview) from Microsoft.
Basically Acropolis is a
framewor... Jun. 20, 2007 12:45 PM Reads: 8,072 Replies: 1 | Mary Jo Foley on the
Defensive From Her WWDC
Article By Kevin Hoffman  Recently, I posted an
article that basically
pointed out that online
journalist Mary Jo Foley
had posted an article
that was really a bunch
of sensationalist
clickbaiting, claiming
that Leopard was ripping
off Vista. Anybody that
uses 'Cupertino, Start
your Photoc... Jun. 19, 2007 10:30 PM Reads: 6,557 Replies: 1 | WWDC Post Mortem - New
York vs. San Francisco By Kevin Hoffman The crazy people are far
more interactive in SF
than they are in NYC.
Most of the crazy folks
in NYC just kind of talk
to themselves and
generally mind their own
business. Their San
Francisco counterparts
actually step in front of
you and attempt to engage
you in ... Jun. 17, 2007 10:30 PM Reads: 7,024 Replies: 3 | Mary Jo Foley Thinks
Leopard is a Photocopy of
Vista - Film at 11 By Kevin Hoffman OK. Bottom line here is
I'm dissapointed. I've
considered Mary Jo's
articles to be unbiased
and relatively objective
in the past. What I'm
looking at in her article
is basically a piece of
imflammatory nonsense. If
she had taken the time to
do some more digging, she... Jun. 17, 2007 08:00 PM Reads: 12,240 Replies: 4 | My First "Acropolis"
Application By Kevin Hoffman At this point, it feels
as though Acropolis is a
layer of abstraction on
top of WPF itself.
Basically when you build
an Acropolis (I'm going
to call it AFX , since
that's a crapload easier
to type, and all the
controls are prefixed as
'AFX') you get an
Application... Jun. 10, 2007 01:15 PM Reads: 10,431 Replies: 1 | My Appearance in the "RIA
Shootout" on SYS-CON.TV By Kevin Hoffman I found the entire event
to be surreal, like an
out of body experience.
I'd never been in a
make-up chair before, and
I'm really an 'in the
trenches' kind of
developer - I've never
much aspired to be on TV,
but I also won't turn
down the chance to
discuss things t... Jun. 5, 2007 07:00 PM Reads: 14,852 Replies: 1 | I'm Going to Be on
SYS-CON.TV Today By Kevin Hoffman If you just add the name
'Kevin Hoffman' to the
list of people who will
be on that panel, the
article will read
correctly. I am going to
be discussing Silverlight
during the panel. Keep in
mind that I don't think
any of us are there to
shoot down or laud any
one p... Jun. 4, 2007 07:15 PM Reads: 13,629 Replies: 1 | Ditching the PPC 6700 for
a Katana By Kevin Hoffman  So I have decided to
retire my Sprint PPC
6700, a device that runs
Windows Mobile 5.0 and
has simultaneous access
to voice networks,
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and
Sprint's broadband
(EVDO). I frequently used
this phone as a wireless
modem and connected my
laptop to the in... Jun. 4, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 7,355 Replies: 1 |
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