Ruminations

Category: iPhone

  • iOS 7 Shift Key is Broken

    iOS 7 Shift Key is Broken

    the shift key in iOS 7 is broken

  • what keeps me awake while driving

    what keeps me awake while driving

    Here’s what keeps me awake when I drive.

  • Adventures in Objective-C: Categories

    Adventures in Objective-C: Categories

    Every year Apple has been making Objective C and Xcode easier and easier to be picked up by developers like me – coming from a background in high-level OO languages (ActionScript, Java) with little to no experience in C – people for whom terms like “memory management” evoke images of creepy dark things crawling from…

  • Migrating to iOS7

    Migrating to iOS7

    This is the best time to jump on the iOS bandwagon since the App store was opened to developers. Ash Furrow: If your app embraces iOS 7′s design and is ready for day one of the new OS, it’s likely that Apple may feature you in your category on the App Store. That could lead…

  • learning iOS development from a Flash Platform perspective

    learning iOS development from a Flash Platform perspective

    I held off diving into learning C, Objective C, and native iOS development for a long time. There were a number of things that made the task seem daunting, and some carrots that Adobe had dangled in front of us Flash platform developers that made it seem unnecessary at first. In retrospect, it’s a good…