I’m sorry to hear you didn’t get a WWDC ticket. (I didn’t get one either). But look at it this way:  even if you’re still planning to go to San Francisco for the week, that’s $1,599 that you won’t be spending on the conference ticket. It’s hard to watch all the WWDC videos.  It’s a […]
MealPlan is a meal and grocery planning app that, up until recently, was only available on the iPad. I wanted to bring it to the iPhone, but I had to implement sync first. I started with iCloud Core Data Sync from Apple, back before iOS 7, and ran into nothing but troubles. It was seriously […]
Brent’s post on API Design and the Main Thread kind of rankles a bit because I see this differently. The main thread is special, yes, but to me it’s special in that you should stay off it unless you have a good reason to be there. The main thread is where responsiveness happens. When your […]
Marco Arment linked to an article by Lukas Mathis which largely talks about creation on mobile devices. Lukas uses producing a resume and cover letter for a job application as an example of where one might find the job frustrating given iOS’s limitations. I build and sell the app Resume Designer, an easy way to […]
I’ve switched one of my apps over to using CocoaLumberjack for logging, so that I can redirect logging to a file on disk, and then when I need to upload a crash log to HockeyApp, I can include some recent log data.  Often this is invaluable in figuring out what really went wrong. I’m working […]
I spent some time over the last couple of weeks playing with Logic Pro X and Final Cut Pro X.  These are Apple’s Pro apps.  They’re a good place to look if you’re trying to figure out what a “Pro†iPad might be, because to me, something worthy of the Pro name would be a […]
So Google bought Nest. This seems like a big deal, and maybe it is. It’s too early to tell. I was listening to John Siracusa in a recent ATP episode talking about how the privacy concern with Google adding the Nest data to the collection of data they collect on all their users isn’t that […]
Apple has this odd relationship with carriers. They make the best selling phone, but carriers do everything they can to steer customers away from it. I’m a Bell Canada customer, and so I receive a lot of promotional material from them. And it almost always treats the iPhone as a second class citizen. Their “2013 […]
There was some traffic on Twitter yesterday around a new Apple knowledge base article Photo Stream Limits.  Some people were under the impression that this article is saying that Apple will now host an unlimited number of your photos and videos. This article doesn’t actually say that, although it doesn’t say they won’t do that. […]
Syncing the settings between instances of your app, through iCloud, seems like a good idea.  And doing this automatically, by walking the contents of NSUserDefaults and syncing them seems like a good idea.  Until you realize that what goes into NSUserDefaults isn’t just your own stuff. In my Unicode Character Viewer app, I was using […]