Grailbox — software development and where it takes me
I Have No Idea: My advice is to train yourself to recognize and note the small (but important) reactions that you have when you’re working with your own apps. Dismiss your professional knowledge about...
Why Apple’s A5 Is So Big, And Siri Is 4S-only: Integration of Audience’s EarSmart on the iPhone 4S’ A5 could explain why Apple decided to not offer Siri on older devices, and why it...
App Cubby Blog – Free and Low-Cost Apps: “The pool of time users spend on smartphones is staggering and growing rapidly, but it is not infinite. The more time people spend with useful/entertaining free...
Immobile Apps: One of the most painful things we did when developing Glassboard was ban ourselves from Wi-Fi for a week. I live in an area where cell coverage is really spotty, and using...
As I type this, Ghostwriter Notes, the notepad app for iPad written by my friend and coauthor Michael Privat, is listed in the New and Noteworthy section of the iPad App Store. With each...
Last night I participated on a panel with Michael Privat, Satya Komatineni, Dave MacLean, and Henry Lee, moderated by Eugene Chuvyrov. All six of us live in Jacksonville, and we’ve all co-authored books for...
I just got back from Red Dirt Ruby Conf in Norman, OK. The accommodations were terrific — The Embassy Suites in Norman looks new, and they served us free omelets-to-order every morning. The food...
Rails developers have the coolest tools, from migrations RVM to Bundler to Pow. One cool Rails tool lets you explain approximately how long ago something happened in words, with phrases such as: Less than...
I just saw this tweet from @compoundj: I want 2 buy “Pro core data for iOS” by @michaelprivat & @hoop33, but I can’t find the table of contents online…any suggestions? Whoops. I checked both...
When Gowalla released version 3 of their iPhone client, they completely revamped the user interface. Although they switched from a rich olive green to a stony gray and downgraded the app’s icon: Old Icon...
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