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A colleague of mine just dropped by his new book on Developing Hybrid Applications for the iPhone. He covers Dashcode, Xcode, JavaScript, and Objective-C. He also covers how to use WebView and native SQLite database access from the iPhone.

It looks interesting. By the way, his blog is here.

I played around with a friend’s Kindle and really had to wonder why would people would buy one of them. Since my books sell an electronic edition on Kindle, I hoped for a better solution.

Great news today, a better physical technology has arrived. You can now download a Kindle application for your iPhone! As a big iPhone fan, this is awesome. Naturally, I was curious how my last book looked.

I downloaded the sample chapter and it looked great on the iPhone. The images are well rendered and clear on the screen. I’m probably going to have to buy an e-copy (ouch) because they don’t provide authors with electronic copies.

Thanks a bunch to the team who ported it to the iPhone. Great job!

I wanted to have scrolling on my iPhone for code segments. It appeared simple. Change the style.css file by adding .code { overflow-x:scroll; }. I first tested it in Safari by setting User Agent to Mobile Safari 1.1.3 – iPhone, where it worked. Alas, it doesn’t work on my iPhone. A quick look at the iPhone simulator taught me it doesn’t work there either. It appears that horizontal scrolling is disabled on the iPhone.

That style sheet is found in the /public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wptouch/themes/default directory. I’d love to have missed something. If there’s a trick to do it, let me know.