kgutteridge

http://damyousiri.com/ slight mispelling of damn in my excitement, but hey ho its good to go and people to contribute to!

Using 3G as my local exchange is actually out, sad that so many businesses did not have a backup if they are dependent on a single point of failure for revenue.

I also wonder whether Adobe has acquired Nitbobi more for phonegap build and talent than phonegap itself

Wrote far to many games for J2ME the best of which was definitely Discworld, some really "great" memories of dealing with the fragmentation that was present. Mobile dev 7 years ago felt like a war against the brick walls that were in the way, no it feels like the handcuffs are off and the only limitation is ourselves and time

iOS, Android, webOS, Blackberry, J2ME

The first two are so much nicer to develop for due to tooling, webOS is pretty nice but perhaps a dead end!

slicehost here, though have used bluehost for a pure out and out blog before that I didn't have any need to access the shell

kgutteridge

Heres a few UK based companies who can handle both the design and development of iOS applications

http://www.intohand.com (Disclaimer I founded this company 5 years ago) http://www.futureplatforms.com http://www.futureworkshops.com/

Another vote for 1password here, since the Chrome extension its been perfect for me

Grumby by Andy Kessler

"its a very funny novel set in Silicon Valley (and Wall Street), about a hacker that creates the next great consumer electronics device (believe me, you’ll want one) and then the rollercoaster ride of getting screwed by VCs, hacked, the deluge of orders, Chinese manufacturing, privacy issues and going public amongst the chaos of competition and rivalries. the technology is its own character, eyes, ears, voice and face recognition, GPS, spy software and a wise-ass personality."

We tend to submit on the clients behalf, but we usually have already handed over the source code and instructions at this point.

Early on in the process we have got the client to sign up for the Apple developer programme, if they haven't or are unwilling to do this and want to self publish alarm bells should be ringing anyway

Niche product for niche audience therefore keep the price high, if you reduce to 0.99 you will have to sell 4 times as many. As the niche audience has had the source code made available to them they can compile it for themselves if they require!

I've been developing for mobile for nearly ten years and trust me when I say unless you need to support a particular device avoid the legacy platforms, at least until you have a proven mass market app.

J2ME is Micro Edition for a reason, much of the seemingly simple on other platforms you will have to roll yourself and test everywhere.

BB dev is like swimming through treacle or as one of my colleagues put it "death by a thousand paper cuts without the relief of death at the end".

WebOS is a pleasure for web developers, but when you try and make custom UIs or deviate from the framework it can become a pain quickly

Symbian is thankfully a footnote now

Would be interested in your blog post

I have tried pretty much the same as you along with cross promotion of apps with other iOS developers and this seems to lead to the most success thus far

Lanyrd.com is your friend for announcing events

No Particular order but these blogs are worth following

http://www.raywenderlich.com/

http://www.cocoanetics.com/

http://maniacdev.com/

http://furbo.org/

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/

http://idevblogaday.com/

http://cocoawithlove.com/

http://idevrecipes.com/

Im sure I have missed loads of really good ones, so looking forward to discovering some more via this ask!

Unfortunately not that much since academia and a few other bits and pieces, 30 here, still do a lot with C++ and ObjC though rather than higher level languages

I worked on a farm all throughout my teens and can fully vouch for this, they adopt technology fast and truly understand capital outlay far more than the majority of small to medium enterprises (at least in the UK), as they pay for the majority of investment out of their own money rather than taking risks with other peoples money, there are however some things that distort this such as the EU CAP subsidies and regulations which lock out other markets, so they are operating in a little bit of a vacuum

It however provided a good grounding for me as you worked 60-100 hour weeks at harvest time and it was physically exhausting but mentally boring, nowadays what I do is physically easy but mentally exhausting, both however are difficult in very different ways but necessary for a healthy economy.

Founder of a mobile company 5 years ago, however I would say we worked for "the man" as we bootstrapped via client work, which at least makes us masters of our own destiny

I purchased a ticket personally as it was worth attending from a personal stand point back in 2009 even coming from the UK.

You have to wonder whether the developer part of the conference should be ticketed separately from the keynote, as I would happily miss the keynote for access to the information. From what I heard in 2010 a lot of people only attended the first day to see what would be announced, you would think the price would be enough to deter bloggers etc but apparently not, the same goes for Google IO

Good to see we got more notice than the 40 days last year, which made it a royal pain for anyone coming from the Worldwide part of this developer conference.

Whilst an expensive trip if it is anywhere near as useful as it was in 2009, its well worth it.

If it sells out, you have to wonder whether the developer part of the conference should be ticketed separately from the keynote, as I would happily miss the keynote for access to the information.

In the starting tab "Getting Inpspiration", I am certainly inspired

Still at least our lords and masters have taken the time to collate what 20 minutes with Google would have uncovered, as at the moment this just looks like big companies giving away freebies to get business.

Still any focus on enterprise has to be a good thing!

You should seriously consider joining the FAP store, which is for the Brother IntelliFax 2800.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=120R2-phK0U

After watching the above pitch; why you would want to do anything in the web or utilise web technologies, when there are powerful app stores like this launching on your fax machine, I have no idea ;)

I was recently given this book by a doctor friend its absolutely brilliant and should appeal to any hacker

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

The cynics view would be because as the web app approach becomes less distinguishable from native apps speed, those web applications end up running as well on equivalent speed hardware such as Android and other platforms as they would on iOS, ceding some of iOS advantage in the richness and diversity of its applications.

However it should be noted most of the popular applications in the iOS app store are in fact games

The real reason is likely to be more to do with security around the js runtime, especially when UIWebView is placed in "wrapped" applications

If you dont want to get involved with the sys admin

Heroku for Ruby Apps Google App Engine, Java or Python Windows Azure .net

If you want to maintain the server yourself a VPS is probably the best best Linode/Slicehost

Amazon S3 for static file storage

Absolutely, its a really good indicator between the excellent and good candidates, usually because the person has looked at what you do and relates their own experience to what the company does

This ones even more amusing on the actual Blackberry App World

http://failblog.org/2011/02/04/epic-fail-photos-blackberry-a...

You did well to pull out early if you found this part of the process painful, unfortunately end to end it feels like death by a thousand paper cuts. Theres nothing glaring wrong through out but lots of annoyances which really add up, when compared to iOS or Android development

We recently developed this so speaking from some experience http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/28561

The bb version took far far longer than the equivalent iOS, simply because of other nonsense such as the pain in the signing process (isthesigningserverdown.com the fact it exists tells you all you need to know). Random exceptions being thrown that have no useful meaning and of course the joy of RAPC throwing errors such as "CreateProcess error=87, Parameter is incorrect" which we eventually found was due to the classpath being too long for RAPC to handle

However once complete the application it is something we are very proud of!

Almost definitely provisioning, though beta builder has made things a lot easier https://github.com/HunterHillegas/iOS-BetaBuilder

Changes to xcode breaking the apps plists on submission is perhaps the only other grumble.