Over the years my blog has transformed from the usual “Wordy geek ranting about first-world problems” content toward more educational and informative posts on what I do for a living: developing awesome iOS applications. I don’t usually talk about the actual applications I’m writing though, since most of my work is on other people’s apps [...]
Boomle, the underdog of my iOS apps
Boomle is by far the lowest-selling app I have published on the iTunes App Store, and sadly as a result I just haven’t had the motivation to dedicate more time to it. However it’s times that I see people using it in person that I see just how much people enjoy playing it. I really [...]
Revenue Canada wants me to buy an iMac 27″
For as long as I’ve been a developer, there was only ever once when I had a machine that I felt was an adequate development workstation. That was around 2001 when I had a dual-proc 667MHz P3 768MB RAM and three 17″ CRT monitors. This baby put out enough heat that my home-office didn’t need [...]
I’m now a Canadian Citizen
Today, I’m proud to announce that I’m officially a Canadian Citizen! I’ve lived in Canada for 7 years now and almost all of my family lives here, but since I was born in California, I’ve technically been an American for all that time…until today. No longer will I have to sheepishly explain myself when US [...]
Showing Apple my app via Facebook
I’ve been working recently on getting more exposure to my existing apps, especially myDrumPad. It’s a fun app, and I have a few more updates that are in the works when I get a couple of free weekends, but frankly I’d like to see its sales figures climb a bit higher than they are now. [...]
New job, and new career path
Some of you who follow me on Twitter may have noticed recently that I’ve been talking about working for a new company. This week is my first week working for Salesforce.com. I’m really excited about the move for a number of reasons, some of which I’ll go into here. As of this past Monday, I’m [...]
Filtering great ideas to fit my available time (and budget)
I’m an avid “Idea Man”. I love coming up with new ideas; for iPhone apps, for web apps, and even for real-world inventions. Most of my ideas only sound great in my head, but when I open my mouth the idea seems to turn sour. A smaller number of ideas manage to survive the thought-to-word [...]
Silent no more…
Wow the past few months have been quite a wild ride, and a ton of things have happened! So much has gone on and I’ve been writing so much software that I haven’t had the time to blog about it. In the time I’m not writing software, I’d rather spend it with my wife than [...]
In-App purchases allowed for free apps on the App Store
Finally, what we’ve all been waiting for. Apple just announced that they’re allowing In-App purchases for free apps, and not just paid apps. This means, as an app developer, I can develop a single app for the app store for free, but can allow my users to upgrade to the full paid version without [...]
Updates on Apple / PhoneGap
Things have been busy over the past few days, which is the reason why I haven’t had a chance to post about this until now. But for the PhoneGap community, I have some good news and some bad news. First, the good news: I got a phone call from the Apple app reviewer that was [...]
