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Experts-Exchange was bad. Really, really bad. StackOverflow is much better. But. That’s not saying much. It’s still pretty bad. I try to avoid it when I can. However, I recently got stuck–something weird was going on with Blocks and memory management. So I posted this question. It’s quite a detailed question. The question itself is […]
There’s been a lot of talk this week about $100 Android phones: What’s most interesting is that unless Apple (AAPL) has a plan to keep up, their iPhone, once one of the only usable smartphone games in town, may wind up back where most Apple products are slotted– at the top of the market, affordable […]
Here be dragons. This bug was the bane of my existence for two weeks. The dreaded EXC_BAD_ACCESS. The trouble with this crash is it gives you basically zero information, and often the frame (backtrace) is invalid (so, less than zero information: wrong information). So the first step is to look at the backtrace. Unfortunately, the […]
So. It’s fashionable lately to whine about app review. I’ve done it. I’ve blogged about how evil it is. Being at WWDC though, and hanging around Apple reps 24/7, I’ve started to drink the kool-aid. Now, I still think app review is often terribly unfair (I’ve had some absolutely awful rejections). But. I’m kinda starting […]
I’m doing freelancing full-time this summer. Here’s a brief summary of what I’ve learned so far.
> We lose nothing by having closed systems. For good or for bad, for the past 25 years or so, programmers have effectively been subsidized in that the tools to design and create programs are effectively the same as the tools to *run* programs. So every system, simply by installing a compiler, is ready to […]
So it looks like my wish has come true: Phoenix Wright is finally headed to the iPhone. I’ve blogged about how lacking the iPhone games market really is, and how this series was a point sample of how Nintendo still owns the market. That ownage may be slipping. As a prominent iPhone developer, I’d be […]
A lot of developers (myself included) have expressed disappointment in the app store on ideological grounds. Can’t install your own software! Apple keeps competitors off the platform! Apple doesn’t let innovative apps through! But there’s another angle to this that nobody’s covering. The app store keeps piracy off the platform. Not because it makes buying […]
Well, I’m certainly not hurting for work at the moment; my inbox is full of inquiries (mostly fly-by-night folks who want to do “revenue sharing”). However, after discovering that I’m result #5 on Google for “find an iPhone developer“, I figured it might be a good idea to have a rant-free landing page for my […]
There are some really, really great iPhone games. And there are more coming. The unsung hero of the iPhone 3GS (and upcoming iPod Touch) is the new graphics chip, which is going to rock the socks off what we’ve been seeing so far. That said, I’m really worried. Let me tell you why. Phoenix Wright […]
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