Something I’m hoping to make a tradition is to write about my favorite apps at the end of every year. I come into contact with different apps all the time – as someone that builds them for a living, I like to check out a wide variety, even if I’m not sure they’ll find a [...]
I live my life through OmniFocus. Between my iPad, iPhone and my Mac, it’s the place that I store all of my tasks and random project stuff. I subscribe to the ‘trusted system’ theory – by knowing that I won’t lose track of something if it’s in OmniFocus, I don’t stress out about my todo [...]
My colleagues at Foraker Labs have updated our Web site to include some of our recent iOS work. Check it out! http://www.foraker.com/our-work/
One of the features that the late, great Steve Jobs talked about in June at the iCloud introduction was calendar sharing – keeping your wife/partner up to date could be easier than ever before. Well, I decided to give it a try. I’ve been running iOS 5 betas since June and upgrade to iCloud about [...]
Some thoughts from me about the impact of iOS 5 on customer’s apps, over on the Foraker blog. http://www.foraker.com/ios-5-means-even-more-great-apps-in-the-app-store/
In one of the BetaBuilder posts, one of the commenters reminded me that while you can customize your BetaBuilder HTML template, it’s not really documented well (or at all). Customization is pretty simple: just edit the ‘index_template.html’ file in BetaBuilder’s Application Support folder. You’ll find a file with a few simple tags that are used [...]
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears – I’m sending out this little note to you, my family, friends, colleagues, etc… Hopefully you’ll find some value in it on this lovely Saturday morning. It’s not spam. Even if you’re not plugged into tech news, you may be aware that in the past few months, there have [...]
This past week, I spent some time in Colorado to see my friends at Foraker Labs to talk about some new iOS work. Boulder isn’t all that far from Santa Barbara in the grand scheme of things but it was a chance to remind myself of some of the travel apps on my iPhone and [...]
Just a note that I published a little sample code on GitHub today. https://github.com/HunterHillegas/HelloMapKitWorld Nothing earth-shattering, especially if you’re familiar with MapKit and Core Data. If you’ve never used either, it might be helpful. The simple app downloads a list of locations in JSON format from the Web, parses it, inserts it in the background [...]
I’ve made a few changes to BetaBuilder and before I submit it to the App Store, I wanted to do a sanity check. Beta Builder 1.6 includes: – Entire window is now a drag target for IPA files. – If your project includes an iTunesArtwork file, it will be used on the generated HTML page. [...]