On Innovation

in Apple, Software

“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” – Steve Jobs

Best statement I’ve seen so far on the matter.

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New MobileMe Photos Gallery iPhone App

in Software, iPhone

Good example of custom UITableView implementation.

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Speculative Metrics Sketching

I have been fascinated lately as visualizations and paper mock-ups of an assumed tablet computing device forthcoming from the good folks at Apple. I pulled out my first time sketch of the mythical unicorn and fairy device, which I really do want to see, own and develop for and posted here for the record.
The first time [...]

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Github Projects

During the iPhone Tech Talk yesterday, I finally found the time to get two projects up on to my Github..
WebServiceKit is an Objective-C library for building web service clients that uses the NSURLConnection and NSOperation. This code was yanked out a project and cleanup up a bit so I has lost some context. I need [...]

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Inexperienced or Lazy

The flood of people into the shared platform that constitutes Mac OS X and iPhone OS seem to want others to do their work for them. A recent thread on the Three20 mail list about AppStore rejections for use of private APIs reminded me of the differences in figuring things out for yourself versus begging [...]

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Looking @ Obj-C REST

I am looking at REST-ish libraries and frameworks in Objective-C and not liking what I see.

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Follow Your App Bliss

An idea came to me today that would fix some of the issues above. Use of a Follow model, applied correctly, could give users and developers trust like relationships, improve application discoverability and serve as the basis to begin filtering the steady streams of crapapps. Improvements in user / developer dialogue and findability of applications would make a hell of a lot of developers really happy.

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AppStore as a viable market

After WWDC this year, I was ready to throw in the towel on the AppStore as a viable market for a small software business and refocus my project work on Snow Leopard…

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We came in peace for all mankind

The debate between the engineers and the pilots is classic and to a certain extent both where proven right, the pilots in particular with Apollo 13. Being both a software engineer and a licensed pilot (Private Pilot, Instrument Rated, Single and Multi Engine), I see both sides of the argument and tend to come down on the side of the pilots and astronauts.

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Must… fix… the… suck.

Holiday weekend hopes for a website redesign hinge on learning enough about PHP and Wordpress to be effective without it being a waste of effort or a time suck. Where is that pillow to scream into again?

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