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Wow, what a week. Apple introduced a ton of new technologies on Monday and I’m already starting to work with them in a few projects. I’m super excited to get building.

PromoLinker, a very simple app I created, is on the Mac App Store. PromoLinker takes the promo code files generated from iTunes Connect and turns them into clickable links that users can follow from their desktop or iOS devices to redeem. I got sick and tired of doing this by hand so PromoLinker was born. [...]

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