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Admitting Your Mistakes #AppFail
The software industry is like no other. As members, we accept some pretty nice salaries, but not without sacrifice. We work hard hours in front of a machine with very little human interaction (even if some of us prefer that). We routinely work extra hours for free when projects slip. We ALL bring our work […]
Coding Standards Are a Farce!
As young companies prosper and development teams grow, the inevitable conversation always becomes about agreeing on a set of coding standards that every developer must rigidly follow. We’ve all been there for the same tired meeting. The Meeting “Every one of us most write our code the same way to be successful.” “But we’ve had […]
When dismissing a modal causes your view to drop 20 pixels…
Today, I ran into a problem where I have a view displaying and I present a modal. Everything is fine, but when I dismiss the modal, the original view has now moved up about 20 pixels — very noticeably the height of a status bar. I’ve run into this problem a few times during a […]
Use Latest iOS
One of the quiet new features in the newest XCode release is a new BaseSDK option “Use Latest iOS”. Not all iOS developers will appreciate this unless they’ve been developing for at least 6 months or so. The problem Apple has solved was an infuriating one. Since an XCode project (a target specifically) can only […]
Comparing the iPhone and Android Development Environments
I’ve spent the last few weeks working on an Android project at work and, I have to say, I am having a familiar feeling of shock at how bad the Android development environment is. Here are some comparisons. Objective-C vs. Android First and foremost, using Java is much better than Objective-C. While I consider Java […]
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.
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