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App Store Aniversary Sale
I should have posted this yesterday, but the price change took forever to show up in the App Store. Anyway, I just wanted to announce that Logbook, my fuel and maintenance tracker for the iPhone and...
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Connecticut CocoaHeads
OK, so I’ve had this thought for a while, and it’s not going away. That thought is that we need a CocoaHeads chapter somewhere in central CT. I’ve enjoyed going up to Boston for their meetings, but...
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In App Purchases for Free Apps
I am extremely happy to see this finally be allowed. I was ecstatic when Apple announced in app purchases back in March. But then immediately crashed when we were told that “free apps remain free”, and...
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Core Data vs SQLite
So, after my post back in March about Core Data being available for iPhone 3.0, I was asked if my enthusiasm for Core Data on in Cocoa Touch was misplaced, or at least premature. Well, now that I’ve...
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2009 Year in Review
I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about how bad 2009 was on Twitter and Facebook, and pretty much everywhere else. And while there were definitely some down moments, I’d have to say that for my...
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Need More Inspiration
So, obviously even infrequent long form posts on this site just aren’t going to happen, but I don’t want to shutter this blog either. So I think I’m going to start trying out shorter form, even if it’s...
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New Domain
I’ve moved this blog to a new domain name. The old domain will redirect here until July 28, when it expires. The RSS feed for articles should not need to be changed, as I am running that through feed...
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Podcasts and Blogs
I am quickly learning that blogs and podcasts can be a developer’s best friend. Especially when your development platform of choice has the great community around it that the Mac development community...
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Objective C 2.0
While I’ve only seriously been working on learning the Cocoa frameworks for a month or two now, I’ve been poking at it since I first got back into Macs about three and a half years ago. So while I may...
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In App Purchases for Free Apps
I am extremely happy to see this finally be allowed. I was ecstatic when Apple announced in app purchases back in March. But then immediately crashed when we were told that “free apps remain free”, and...
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More thoughts on Git
Here are some more things I’ve noticed after a few more weeks with Git: Many of the articles I’ve seen comparing the various different distributed versioning systems tend to complain that Git is overly...
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iPhone ORMs
In my last post, I started my search for a good object-relational mapper that I could use in my iPhone applications, since Core Data is not available on that platform. I had found FMDB, and...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DVCS
I recently started a new job, which gave me a reason to look at my choice of VCS. I’ve been using Subversion for several years now, but being a UNIX admin by trade, I never really cared about my VCS,...
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2009 Year in Review
I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about how bad 2009 was on Twitter and Facebook, and pretty much everywhere else. And while there were definitely some down moments, I’d have to say that for my...
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Connecticut CocoaHeads
OK, so I’ve had this thought for a while, and it’s not going away. That thought is that we need a CocoaHeads chapter somewhere in central CT. I’ve enjoyed going up to Boston for their meetings, but...
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Core Data vs SQLite
So, after my post back in March about Core Data being available for iPhone 3.0, I was asked if my enthusiasm for Core Data on in Cocoa Touch was misplaced, or at least premature. Well, now that I’ve...
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App Store Aniversary Sale
I should have posted this yesterday, but the price change took forever to show up in the App Store. Anyway, I just wanted to announce that Logbook, my fuel and maintenance tracker for the iPhone and...
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NSConference
While heading over to the UK for a developers conference is way out of my budget right now, anyone who is looking for a good Mac developer conference should go check this out. It’s been put together...
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FMDB
After about two months of trying out different object-relational-mappers for use in iPhone software, I came to the conclusion that they were all either too complex for what I needed (OmniDataObjects),...
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Need More Inspiration
So, obviously even infrequent long form posts on this site just aren’t going to happen, but I don’t want to shutter this blog either. So I think I’m going to start trying out shorter form, even if it’s...
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