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I am using Xcode 3.2.6 on MacBook, Xcode 4.0.2 on iMac. After I came back home, I checked it. As you said it build successfully. I think Xcode 4.0.2 is smarter than 3.2.6 and automatically correcting the configuration.

You uploaded the new updated sample code just a few hours ago. Thanks for quick response.

I installed Xcode 3.2.6 in default directory(/Developer). I downloaded example code http://examples.oreilly.com/0636920010180/ Download the example code again to start from the scrach. For just one example, check "Allocating and Initializing Objects" in Chapter 1. You said you build successfully with the base SDK missing? If you look at the frameworks on the left side 'Groups and Files' pane of Xcode, in which color do the frameworks look? Red? Black? You can't build successfully if they look red.

Right click on any of the frameworks in the Groups and Files pane of Xcode and choose 'Get Info'. Could you please tell me the full path?

If he uses latest Xcode and KNOWS how to use Xcode 3.2 or Xcode 4, he will find it. (Remove the frameworks with the wrong path. Add the necessary frameworks to Project. Set the base configuration to latest iOS. Change the settings for device/simulator and debug/release correctly if needed. I had to change the configurations of all the projects. It's pretty annoying, because there are more than a hundred projects.)

Isn't it funny no one told this problem yet?

Do you think anyone in the review http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920010180#reviews downloaded the sample code and compiled any one of the projects with Xcode 4 or 3.2 with iOS SDK 4.x? I am wondering how someone who does not even try to compile the sample codes posts their review to a programming book? I don't think they even understand Objective-C.

The configuration of all the projects are mess, so you have to reconfigure all the projects to compile. I hope this problem to be fixed ASAP.

Thanks,

Hi Brian,

Thanks for great offer. It is a great honour to be a tech reviewer for O'Reilly. However, for some personal reason I can't accept your great offer. I believe you can find better tech reviewers than me.

For erratas, - Learning iPhone Programming: It's almost been a year. I forgot the details. - iOS 4 Progg Cookbook: Vandad doesn't deserve any errata submission from readers. But I think anyone who have read some of Apple's document could easily find errors in the book. You said that book is for medium to advanced developers. I am just curious about how you measure the level of developers. He just made the clear cut documents hard to understand and even wrong sometimes. (Who says PROCEDURE in C world? Who on earth add frameworks to target not project? is application:didReceiveLocalNotification: method called when in background? Have you ever open anyone of the sample code projects in recent Xcode?)

Thanks,

I don't think many of reviewers know even how to compile the source codes not to mention how to program it. The authors seem to mob their friends or families to post favourite reviews that are just superficial. ----------------

Especially Brian Jepson and the mobile series are the most problematic. I think he should have chosen qualified authors in the first place.

Me and my friends are not evening considering the forthcoming books even with intriguing titles in the O'Reilly mobile series( ... Augmented Reality ..., etc. with animals or birds on their cover). Those are DOA by the wrong authors.

You (or the authors) can cheat readers once, however those readers never return. I think the TRENDS of the sales figures have already told this fact. READERS NEVER RETURN.

In fact some books are good(+) and others are terrible(-). I recently have read a few O'Reilly books on iPhone programming.

+ Head First iPhone Development: The authors' penetrating and clear explanation is the reason why we pay for a book where there are very good and free documents. Fairly good book and I have recommended this book to all of my friends.

- Learning iPhone Programming: Terrible. The author is fairly incompetent. He should have read Head First iPhone Development not to mention Apple's document in the first place.

- iOS 4 Programming Cookbook: The most terrible book that I have ever read. The author is not even accustomed to C besides Objective-C. Who says procedure in C? Some explanation is completely wrong. Vandad also deleted the readers' errata. I have seen many erratas submitted and removed silently. Even if the errata was wrong this should never ever happen because other readers can also misunderstand that point.

If O'Reilly have ever have a decent technical reviewers in mobile programming, they should have these books reviewed by them before these books published to the world.

Finally O'Reilly should know that nowadays nobody refers to reviews in the oreilly.com. Many of the reviews are fake and blindly friendly.

I hope to see much better ("worth the money") books from O'Reilly in the future.