Here I am, persevering as usual. Presently I’m trolling my way through the iPhone Reference Library, fishing for some semblance of an organized tutorial on application development. I’m sure that if you have a background in Cocoa or Objective-C, then you’re several steps ahead of me. Java and PHP experience aren’t lent well to this iPhone stuff.
But tonight I did finally find somewhere to start (reading, that is, as I’ve been playing with Xcode and documentation for about 40 hours now). Keep in mind that you will need to sign up for an Apple Developer Connection (ADC) account before you can access this document.
Without further adieu, Your First iPhone Application: Application Bootstrapping.