I really like iOS development. Ideally, I’d like to have a full time job developing games for iOS. But really, I just want more experience doing iOS development. I want to get better, find a mentor or a coding buddy. With that in mind, I recently started applying and interviewing for junior level positions. I [...]
I made this blog post almost exactly one year ago. At the time, I thought it was kind of a big deal. Today, I discovered that it was not that big of a deal at all. I was working on a project that required that code. After I implemented it, I noticed that the the [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I did a post on refactoring. This post is sort of the inspiration behind what motivated me to start the refactoring project I discussed previously. It isn’t a terribly exciting story, but it had an impact on me and the way I think about coding and life in general. A [...]
This post will be kind of short since I am at 360iDev this week. Today is the second day and this is my second time attending. It is always a mixed bag for me. When I leave part of me feels like I gained a large amount of knowledge and motivation, but part of me [...]
I have a bad habit of not refactoring my code. I do this for a couple of reasons. None of them are good excuses. My current projects is kind of mundane, but that was by design to help me become better at refactoring. The lessons have been great and more importantly, I’m having fun with [...]
I’ve been busy the past couple of weeks working on a non-iOS project that I hope to reveal on my next and last iDevBlogADay post. The only real iOS stuff I have been doing is playing games. Mostly Velocispider and Tiny Tower. I have found Tiny Tower very addictive. I’m not a big fan of microtransactions, [...]
I’m trying to figure out how to be a better coder. I’m looking for suggestions. I have a couple of apps on the app store. Some I did solo, some as part of a team, some as contract work. Even when working on a team, I did my portion of the work by myself. Occasionally [...]
With all the patent talk about Lodsys, I thought I would share my iOS patent infringement story. I am one of three developers who created Baby Activity Logger. We released it back in 2008. About or year or so after that we received a letter from Apple that they had been contacted by the holder [...]
There was some news last week that Apple had recently started pulling ads from some apps targeted toward children. After reading about this I was a little bit disappointed since I have a couple of children’s apps with iAds. Despite my disappointment, I was glad to see that Apple had done this. When I was [...]
One of the first apps I collaborated on was Baby Activity Logger. This app was under the medical category. The app did fairly well and as I monitored it in the rankings I frequently saw apps in that category that really didn’t belong there. One app that particularly bothered me was a breathalyzer simulation app [...]
