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Smart Stacks v1.0 for iPad Released!
Pleased to announce that Rapture In Venice, in partnership with Patrick Hansen, has released Smart Stacks, a kids’ educational flash-card app exclusively for iPad! It’s been 6 months in the making and work on it came after all my full-time *and* client work. But, with both of us equally busy, we executed and got it […]
Interface Builder: Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone!
Much like when Joni Mitchell riffed on the paving of paradise, Interface Builder is the pariah of iPhone developers. I’ve seen it when it’s fouled up its internals after you’ve spent hours trying to figure out why a simple button event isn’t firing. I’ve faced having to merge the dang thing when working with another […]
Overriding Your iPhone’s Localization In-App
For my upcoming flash card app for the iPad, I had the unusual challenge of needing to be able to change the app localization based on a user’s selection rather than just depending on the language globally set by the user on their iPhone. The reason is that I want the user to be able […]
Rapture In Venice’s Development Process
I’ve worked with small companies and large, startups and huge corporations, and in addition to working as an independent consultant I’ve formulated my own personal software process that I’d like to think is a nice mix of all the best features of what I’ve experienced before and imagined on my own. And so I’d like […]
Is an Objective-C Minifier Possible?
My coworker-friend-buddy, Sean, and I are putting the final touches on our iPhone framework, iBoost. One thing we have to think about now is how it will integrate with our (and your) applications. There are two basic strategies I’ve seen: Copy the source code into the project. This is never done with Java projects, but […]
John Blanco
I've been writing mobile apps professionally for 10 years: Blackberry, Java, ME, iPhone, Android. I've gotten dozens of apps into the various App Stores for dozens of clients, big and small.
My current specialty is in iOS and Xamarin development. If you need an app written at a fixed price or just need a hourly developer to give a boost to your current team, I might be your guy.
Let's make an app!