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ARC Support Without Branching
When Apple announced support for ARC (Automatic Reference Counting), iOS developers jumped for joy at the prospect of no longer having to litter codebases with manual memory management code anymore. Finally, we can concentrate on logic without all the error-prone, time-consuming boilerplate. But, even moreso than most of the new features in iOS5, the transition […]
Getting Started with Mogenerator
NOW UPDATED FOR XCODE 5 If you’re an iOS developer using Core Data in your app, whether a n00b or expert, you should be using Mogenerator. I mean, really, you *should* be using it. If you don’t, well don’t worry, I’m not only going to tell you why you need it, I’m including a tutorial […]
That Day Animal Alphabet HD Beat Out Cookie Doodle
Last October, I unofficially partnered up with Fish the Mouse Media and headed up the programming for Animal Alphabet HD, the interactive and kid-friendly alphabet app exclusively for iPad. After nearly 6 months of development (in mostly evening hours) interrupted only by the birth of my daughter in January 2011, the app was released to […]
iBoost is now InnerBand!
Just a quick announcement, to avoid naming conflicts with the mobile provider I’ve renamed iBoost to InnerBand. It’s hosted at its new InnerBand GitHub location. John BlancoJohn Blanco is a freelance iOS developer living in Lakewood, Colorado. He’s been developing mobile apps for over 15 years, beginning in the medieval days of Java ME and […]
iOS Brownbag: View vs. Layers (including Clock Demo)
For many iOS developers, layers are a lower-level, complex version of the UIView. In reality, it’s the UIView which is a thin layer on top of CALayer. Unfortuntely, 95% of the iOS books and documentation out there talk almost exclusively about the UIKit and so it’s no surprise we get that impression. In this blog, […]
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!