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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/

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/

Happy to announce that Vegas Mate 3.1 is on the App Store. This Two Way post has all the info.

On 5by5′s Daily Edition last week, there was a section of the show where Dan, Jen and special guest Dave Findlay were talking about apps on iOS, specifically what makes an app ‘native’. There was a little bit of debate on the show with Jen suggesting that some folks would argue that any app  that’s [...]

I got my ticket and hotel situation for WWDC 2011 all set – can’t wait. If you’re going to be in San Francisco that week, love to meetcha for a beer.

A friend of mine, Eric, started talking today about potentially switching from iPhone to Android. I don’t know if this is a good change for him or not – there are some people that fall into Android’s sweet spot (though I think far fewer than the sales numbers would indicate – many customers pick carrier [...]

Did the whole wait-in-line thing and picked up my iPad 2. So far, I dig it – amazing how fast it seems. As for my apps, Vegas Mate runs so well on the new device, even some of the gnarly table views that pull data from multiple Core Data entities scroll like they were pre-made [...]

If you need to decode JSON and you’re not using JSONKit, you’re making a huge mistake. It’s by far the fastest parser I’ve found, almost as fast as binary PLIST (so close, there’s no reason to switch away from JSON). Dig it. https://github.com/johnezang/JSONKit

Yesterday, Apple dropped the equivalent of an atomic bomb on App Store developers whose apps feature content subscriptions. For everyone from Netflix to Bob’s Valentine Cards, this is officially a ‘big fucking deal’. As expected, this news provoked the typical anti-Apple reactions as rabid Internetizens commented on the company’s perceived motivations: greed, control and, well, [...]

A bug fix release of Vegas Mate, 3.0.1, is now in the App Store. This update deals with a few problems that were discovered after 3.0 shipped. It also reduces memory consumption in a few places and includes re-worked input controllers for several of the trip related screens. It was nice to be able to [...]