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WWDC 2008 Debrief

Another WWDC has entered the history books and I think that it was a pretty good one. As in previous WWDC’s that I’ve attended I spent the week in simultaneous states of total euphoria and near exhaustion. Unfortunately, I was unable to arrive early enough on Sunday to check-in or attend the MacSB party. The [...]


iPhone SDK Beta 6

The latest drop of the iPhone SDK has just been released and I must say that so far it rocks! I’ve had to make only minimal updates to get my iPhone apps running on this latest drop and best of all the builds seem to be blistering fast. Well, they’re pretty darn fast anyway on [...]


Breakfast of Champions

There used to be a senior exec in a company that I worked for who liked to say, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions”. Visuals from a literal translation of that Ken Blanchard quote aside, it has the power to transform anything. Feedback, in all of its forms, is often a tough serving to consume [...]


Peer reviews for the Solo coder

Developing software in a solo environment has its pros and cons. On the upside you have complete reign over the code base (no problems with ownership here), freedom to follow specific designs and an ability to express your creativity. On the other hand, the very nature of the activity can be your down fall; tunnel [...]


Virtual Accessors in CoreData

In order to provide the best user experience it often occurs in a UI’s design that the underlying data model doesn’t quite mirror the mental model of the end user. Naturally, as a good UI designer you want to present to the end user what they expect to see and not force upon them your [...]


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