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Clients: Getting a Better Project Price…from a Denver iPhone Developer
My experience as a technical consultant has taught me what the best projects to pursue are, how to smell a rat, and how to come up with the highest bid that wins. I don’t know, maybe I bid low, or too high, who knows, but I’ve got a great conversion rate on getting contracts signed […]
An Open Letter to Apple: Please Kill Synthesis in iOS 6!
And John Blanco penned an open letter to Apple… Dear Apple, The gig is up. I see what you’re doing. You’re trying to fix one of biggest follies of iOS development that the mainstream doesn’t know about but us developers do. You want to kill Objective-C. It’s obvious. No no, it’s not that you added […]
The Ruby Version Manager
If you’re doing Ruby and not using RVM, you simply need to be. There’s not only a big difference between Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9, but you’ll likely want some different gemsets to use different Rails versions, including the new 3.x series. Here’s the most concise guide possible for setting up RVM. (Mac OS X instructions […]
WWF Words Not In Scrabble
I’ll be soon pushing out a word training app that works with both Words With Friends and Scrabble. Just for fun I ran a query of all the words WWF allows that Scrabble doesn’t. Here they are. For what it’s worth, most of them *really* are in Scrabble, but they took “potty” words out a […]
Throw Scrabble Strategy Out The Door In WWF
A couple weeks ago I finally got to installing Words with Friends (WWF) on my iPhone while stuck at one of those counter tables facing a wall at a Smashburger with some co-workers. Can I get a window, please? Anyway, I’ve dabbled in competitive Scrabble and am one of those guys that studies word lists […]
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!