Faraway, so close: doing global iPhone dev from New Zealand

Where are you based? I live up in the Bay of Islands where it's about as isolated as you can get and still have DSL.

It's been an interesting last few years freelancing from that situation. The isolation from like-minded technologists can have an impact which Skype is only partially able to alleviate. But it's worth it, waking up to the Palm trees and Pohutukawas, being minutes from the ocean and an hours drive from the nearest traffic light (Whangarei):-)

As a fellow Kiwi all of that really hits the mark, although I'm not involved in iOS development most of it still applies. Especially the attitude towards our own work.

Would love to be able to go to the MIX conference this year but really can't afford it. Thankfully though for MS developers in NZ Tech Ed does make its way down here.