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Steal This Code and Protect Their Data: Simplifying KeyChain Access
The Code The last couple of months, I’ve been working on my first Mac App (more on that in a later post). As part of this App, I’m calling a REST API that requires that I have the user’s password...
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360iDev Conference Notes, or How I Spent my September Vacation
This Thursday, I got back home after four days at 360iDev 2011 in Denver. I went last year, which was easy for me because it was in Austin where I live. I was concerned about the extra time and extra...
View ArticleUsing Regular Expressions and Retaining your Sanity
At a recent Austin, Texas Cocoacoder meeting, I made an offhand comment giving someone a regular expression that would help with a problem they were having. That led to two things. First, I was asked...
View ArticleUsing Regular Expressions Part 2 - The Cocoa Connection
Last time, in Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the basics of regular expressions, and the phrases I tend to use. Today, I’m going to talk about the mechanics of how I use Regular Expressions in...
View ArticleHTTP Testing to the edge on iOS: The School of Hard Mocks
I’m a big fan of Automated Testing, even on iOS projects, but even when I was doing mostly Ruby, Java and C# work, I was never a big user of mock objects. Now, I’ll admit that Mock objects can be...
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Hey, iOS Devs, Nice AppStore. Would be a shame if something were to happen to...
So, breaking iOS AppStore news this afternoon: Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers. This sucks, and I’m pissed off, but not because my data is so precious, but because I’m...
View ArticleWhat I Learned During my Mac App Store Review
Two things happened on Thursday that made it obvious to me what I should write about this week. Mountain Lion was announced, and my first Mac App was approved for the Mac App Store. Even though...
View ArticleMy Top 5 factors for iOS Contracting Success
About a year ago now, I was contemplating leaving my day job and becoming an indie* iOS developer. My last day working in a cube farm was June 30th, 2011. Now, as I pack to leave for WWDC in the...
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New Work In Progress - Million Words: Multiplayer Crossword Game for...
Although I do iOS Contracting to pay my bills (at least to date), I hope one day to earn a living from my own apps, and, although it’s not ready for release, the time has come to unveil my new project....
View ArticleFinding relevant WWDC videos
As I’ve said before, I find the WWDC videos to be invaluable and I try watch all of them eventually. But there are a lot of them, and it can be hard to find what’s relevant. And a lot of them I go back...
View ArticleMigrated from SquareSpace to Octopress
I’ve moved my blog from Squarespace to OctoPress. I’ve gotten more and more frustrated with SquareSpace over the last couple of years. They moved to their new version 6 product, but it has no API...
View ArticleI Am Now Officially Writing a Book
I’ve been working on writing a book for some time now. It’s been through many stages, conversations, outlines, contracts, etc., etc. But for some reason, it never felt real, until now. Oddly enough,...
View Article"App Accomplished" Nearing Accomplishment
It’s been a long time since I’ve done much (really any) blogging, but hopefully that drought will be coming to an end soon. I’ve just turned in my 13th (of 14) chapters of my upcoming book, App...
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Just Because There Was a Bubble Doesn't Mean App Store Developers Are Doomed
Let’s just call it what it was, shall we? We had an App Store Bubble. It’s deflating now, although (at least with games) there are still remnants. Take a deep breath. It’s all going to be okay. When I...
View ArticleMaking the Most Of Your (iOS) Dev Conference Experience
Next weekend 360iDev starts, and last weekend was the first CocoaConf of the fall 2014 season. I’ve seen on twitter at least one request for advice from a first-time attendee. I had more to say than I...
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Fragmented Capital - It Just Got Harder to Be an iOS Indie Developer
With Apple’s announcements yesterday, it just got a lot more expensive to develop for Apple’s ecosystem. I’ve written before about why it’s important to test your code on as many different devices as...
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HULK BASH! - The Internet is Broken, But My Part is Fine
Well, the Internet is broken again. It sucks to be us (and by “us” I mean “people whose income depends on a working Internet”). But as for my piece of the Internet, I’m not too worried. I’m paranoid,...
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WatchKit Resources—Week 1
It’s now been a week since Apple’s WatchKit was announced, and I’ve been collecting resources. I figured this would be just as good a place to put them as any. If you run across more resources, feel...
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App Accomplshed is a Best-Reviewed Addison-Wesley Book of 2014
As 2014 draws to a close, my publisher has released their list of the best reviewed books they published in 2014. I’m honored to be able to say that my book, App Accomplished was one of them. To...
View ArticleAnchored to the Bottom: Hypothesizing the Root Cause of Low App Store Pricing
There’s a race to the bottom for prices on the App Store, and many developers (myself included) don’t like it. Some developers wonder if Apple could have stopped it. Others think the free and paid apps...
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