A quick post as I take a break from working on a new app for the iPhone.
It seems that last year, a month before WWDC there was already a buzz in the air around attending and getting a jump on the iPhone market.
I’m not seeing it this year. Anyone else feeling the same?
Working on my next iPhone App and exploring some infrastructure options. Here are links to a few resources I’ve been examining…. (more…)
Talkbubbles version 1.2.2 is available for purchase and updating in the App Store (link).
I’ve had sporadic reports of flipped and distorted images within TalkBubbles. I thought I had these fixed, but thanks to one persistent customer, discovered otherwise.
Now, with version 1.2.2 submitted to the App Store. I can say it is fixed. Read on to see how to overcome this in your own code.
As mentioned in my previous post, I want to keep my skills fresh by working on simple, defined problems and solving them in both Objective-C and Erlang.
Here is the second problem.
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I’ve got plenty of ‘real’ work to do, but also want to’sharpen my saw’ so to speak. To do this, I’ve played with Code Katas, but have found the problems there are not necessarily the real algorithmic thinking I want to develop. Instead I’m going to take a look at Project Euler and see what I can do in Objective-C/Cocoa and Erlang as well.
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There has been much speculation and discussion around the fairness of Apple’s pricing policy in the iPhone App Store. What I haven’t seen are the numbers underlying much of the discussion and what it means to the indie developer. So, being an analytical business type in my day job, I decided to take a closer look at things.
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One of the features that has always been planned for MagicBrush-Photo has been the ability to upload or publish images to Picasa and Flickr.
Right now I’m in the midst of incorporating this feature into the release plan. The GData APIs for cocoa are making this straight forward enough, but the tricky part is making the experience fit in with the overall Mac user expectation.
For instance, a user has a reasonable expectation of being able to store their account information for Picasa or Flickr in their keychain.
Once you can authenticate to either site, you need to present the complex behavior of the web application in a simplified manner. Should users be able to only upload? Should they be able to view previously uploaded images (to ensure they’re not duplicating things)? Should they be able to edit tags and descriptions for images already uploaded, or just when they initially upload them? Complexity grows quickly.
Stay tuned to see how MagicBrush-Photo handles these. If you are interested in helping beta test these features, give me a shout.