There are many speculations concerning Twitter’s future.

This is my wish.

According to many, I live in an imaginary world. I believe that everything is created, and by a creator. If you believe in a creator/God then we could imagine that the earth and all its resources are “gifts” to mankind.

We’ve managed to take these “gifts” and make money out of it. New stuff is innovated out of them. We created Twitter.

I would like to believe that Twitter is a gift to mankind, from mankind. A new “gift” to connect people together, innovate new solutions using this great platform and make money. Thank you Twitter (God #2?)!

As I said, wishful thinking! I’ll love Twitter even if they figure out a way to earn money.

I’ll keep this post really short!

Pros

Cons

Some good to knows!

Conclusion

Projectplace for iPhone

I think there is a great secret to learn from this quote. The first part of the quote is quite obvious. Everyone wants to hire the best and most of us are really good at doing this. We even have big recruitment companies that are experts on finding the best of the best that will suite us. But I would like to focus on the part “Set them free”.

Set them free

If you have a business, where success is built on every team member’s effort, and you want to fail; here you have my best tip:

- Hire the best and enslave them. E.g. make them do same repetitive work each day and make them strictly follow company policies. And the worst, shoot down ideas directly.

If you follow this tip, two things could happen. If you really hired the best, this person will realise that he/she isn’t free to use their creativity and will quit the job and choose freedom. Or if they choose to stay, they won’t be the best anymore, all creativity will be lost and you won’t value for your money.

Instead of shooting down ideas, give them a chance. Remember you hired the best! Embrace their creativity! If you want to build a successful business that is built on your employees’ achievements, then you have to simply set them free.

We are all born to be free and in freedom we can and will do amazing things!

Collaboration, shared values, respect, freedom; Embrace and succeed!

The iPhone devcenter has some sample code explaining how the CoreLocation framework works. But, I found that example a bit hard to understand…

Here is an easier way of finding your current location from your iPhone.

Let’s start with the interface/header file.
CurrentLocationController.h

#import <CoreLocation/CoreLocation.h>
 
@interface CurrentLocationController : NSObject <CLLocationManagerDelegate> {
	CLLocationManager *locationManager;
}
 
@property (nonatomic, retain) CLLocationManager *locationManager;
 
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation;
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didFailWithError:(NSError *)error;
 
@end

Note: Our object “implements” the CLLocationManagerDelegate protocol. We “implement” two methods, locationManager:didUpdateToLocation:fromLocation: and locationManager:didFailWithErrorfrom :, from CLLocationManagerDelegate. The first method is invoked when a new location is available and the second one if an error has occurred.

Here comes the implementation:

#import "CurrentLocationController.h"
 
@implementation CurrentLocationController
 
@synthesize locationManager;
 
- (id) init {
    self = [super init];
    if (self != nil) {
        self.locationManager = [[[CLLocationManager alloc] init] autorelease];
        self.locationManager.delegate = self;
    }
    return self;
}
 
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation {
    NSLog([newLocation description]);
}
 
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didFailWithError:(NSError *)error {
    NSLog([error description]);
}
 
- (void)dealloc {
    [self.locationManager release];
    [super dealloc];
}
 
@end

The only important thing to note is the line

self.locationManager.delegate = self;

. Here we set our own object as the delegate, which means that all the location messages will be forwarded to CurrentLocationController.

I hope this will give you more time innovating, instead of developing Trichotillomania.

So, how do you URL enconde a string? It’s quite simple if you know how.

+ (NSString *)urlEncodeValue:(NSString *)str
{
NSString *result = (NSString *) CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes(kCFAllocatorDefault, (CFStringRef)str, NULL, CFSTR(”:/?#[]@!$&’()*+,;=”), kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
return [result autorelease];
}

To create an URL object, do like this:

[NSURL URLWithString:encodedUrlString]