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A Developers Perspective on AppStore Reviews

The last few months have been a blur of activity. New product, actual customers, future releases to plan, bugs to fix, strategy to plot and the world to conquer. Heady days indeed. I owe much gratitude to the AppStore for providing a venue that has allowed me to ramp up quickly. Yes, the AppStore has [...]


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 [...]


Java on the iPhone? Say it ain’t so…

Almost as soon as the iPhone SDK was released Sun announced its plans to develop and release the JVM for the iPhone. As a long time Java developer I should be ecstatic about this news. However, rather than causing sleepless nights dreaming about the possibilities of a JVM on the iPhone it somewhat depresses me. [...]