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Shmoozing with Fish the Mouse
While Rapture In Venice is technical consulting I do in addition to full-time mobile work during the day, that doesn’t mean I can’t take it three levels deep and rendezvous elsewhere, right? Since early October 2010, I’ve joined up with the dads of Fish the Mouse Media to work on what’s become our newly released […]
Top 10 Annoyances XCode 4 Fixed For Me
XCode 4 is a radically subtle re-think of the XCode interface. The biggest changes are the switch to a single view as well as the overall workflow for running and deploying apps to the App Store. Here are some of my favorite improvements over XCode 3. 1. Hitting Run while looking at an IB file. […]
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 […]
Nothing Premature Is Ever Good!
Most developers have heard the term “premature optimization.” What this means is that you shouldn’t focus on optimizing your code (for performance) until your project is winding down. The reason is simple: Spending hours optimizing a code to be optimally fast can instantly be wasted if that code needs to change, and if it does […]
Iron Chef America: Mozzarella!
And now for something completely different. Some friends and I got together to have a cooking day. We made three new recipes. As part of it, I was feeling creative and took some footage to make an Iron Chef America parody. Here it is. :-) I used iMovie to stitch everything together. The challenge, obviously, […]
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!