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Apple to hit the road with more Tech Talks

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 27th, 2013)

Apple on Friday posted a new message on its developer news site stating that the company will be "hitting the road" this fall with Tech Talks set to take place in a number of cities. Enthusiasm for WWDC 2013 has been incredible, with tickets ...

No WWDC tickets? Go to AltWWDC 2013 instead

by Steven Sande (Apr 25th, 2013)

As expected, WWDC 2013 tickets sold out in record time. If you are one of the many disappointed developers locked out of Apple's premier developer event yet again, take heart. The folks behind Appsterdam and a number of other developer events ...

DevJuice: Does WWDC need a lottery system?

by Erica Sadun (Apr 25th, 2013)

WWDC sold out in just minutes this year. As iOS developer Josh Avant put it, "Next year, tickets are going to sell out before they even go on sale." Many developers were greeted by server errors, failed purchases and the "Sorry, tickets are ...

WWDC 2013 now sold out

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 25th, 2013)

WWDC tickets went on sale today, and the event sold out within minutes. This year, Apple developers were prepared to buy their tickets as the company pre-announced the ticket sales one day in advance. In previous years, the conference was ...

Origin Stories: Hopper

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 25th, 2013)

Hopper is a Mac app for deconstructing binaries for analysis and debugging. If you're not a developer, it's probably not for you, but it's a cool tool nonetheless, built from scratch by a developer who built it himself. Once again a developer ...

Apple announces WWDC video feeds for developers

by Erica Sadun (Apr 24th, 2013)

Although the social component and Apple-staffed labs are two important reasons for developers to attend WWDC, early access to tech briefings has long been a motivating force for buying that expensive ticket. Today, it looks like Apple ...

Extract App Resource Icons with AppleScript

by Ben Waldie (Apr 22nd, 2013)

Whether I'm preparing for a demo or writing an article, blog post, book, or technical documentation, I often find myself performing the same set of repetitive steps. I need to navigate into an app's packaged resources folder, find one or more icon ...

DevJuice: Forget iUI. Say 'welcome' to Emy for web-based cross-platform mobile dev

by Erica Sadun (Apr 18th, 2013)

For years, iUI has been the gold standard of iOS web development. Dating back to 2007, iUI was initially created by Joe Hewitt to simplify the development of iPhone web apps using an iPhone-style look and feel. It's been stuck at its 0.4 release ...

AppGratis document shows disconnect between statement and promotion

by Steven Sande (Apr 16th, 2013)

Today's edition of "How the AppGratis Turns" finds Business Insider reporting on a "leaked document" showing that the company supplies developers with estimates on where their app will land in the App Store rankings based on how much they're ...

The Alien Hive team shares tips and concepts from the game's development

by Mike Schramm (Apr 11th, 2013)

Alien Hive arrived on the App Store a little while ago, and I wrote it up as a Daily App a little bit after that. Since then, however, it's stuck in my brain, and I find myself coming back to it again and again. The developer is based overseas ...

AppGratis CEO speaks out about app being pulled from App Store

by Steven Sande (Apr 9th, 2013)

One of the big stories yesterday was about the AppGratis app discovery and deals app being pulled from the App Store. As the story developed, there was confusion about what exactly caused Apple to yank the popular app (it has over 12 million users) ...