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360iDev Denver: Matt Drance on the past and future of iOS development

by Mike Schramm (Sep 12th, 2011)

This week's 360iDev conference in Denver, CO kicked off today with a keynote from former Apple employee Matt Drance, who offered a summary of what's changed (and what hasn't) since the last time he spoke to this conference two years ago. He also discussed the attitudes developers need to take ...

Zynga picks up another iPhone developer, Five Mobile now Zynga Toronto

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2011)

The Zynga blog reports that the huge social gaming company has picked up yet another iPhone developer to add to its growing staple. Five Mobile, a company that's made various apps for iPhone and other mobile platforms, is now part of Zynga and will be renamed Zynga Toronto, tasked with working ...

WWDC 2011 ticket shows up on eBay

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 29th, 2011)

Well, if you weren't quick enough to get a ticket to this year's WWDC, this just might ... make you angry. A developer is selling an unactivated extra ticket on eBay for the Buy It Now price of US$3,500. That's $1,900 more than the original $1,599 cost. The eBay seller says the ticket is one he ...

Apple updates iTunes Connect Mobile for iPad

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 20th, 2010)

Apple has updated the iTunes Connect Mobile app to version 1.1. The app was first released in June of this year and allowed developers to view statistics about their products on the App Store right from their iPhone or iPod touch. Today's update brings universal support for all iOS devices, ...

Apple warns App Store name squatters

by Mike Schramm (Sep 14th, 2010)

TechCrunch reports that Apple is cracking down on "app name squatters," developers who create an app and reserve a name on the App Store, but don't actually upload files to release and sell the app. Apparently this is an issue -- personally, I can't immediately think of any names that I'd need to ...

Apple ditches "Rate on Delete" in iPhone OS 4

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 11th, 2010)

MacRumors is reporting that Apple has removed the "Rate on Delete" feature from the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 release. "Rate on Delete" is a pop-up notice that appears when a user deletes an app from their iPhone. The user is able to select a 1 to 5 star rating for the app or to refuse rating it by ...

GrowlCode brings Growl to Xcode

by Cory Bohon (May 10th, 2008)

Do you like Growl? Do you use Xcode? Then chances are you'll like GrowlCode. GrowlCode is a plugin to integrate Growl's on-screen alerts into the Mac OS X developer app, Xcode. GrowlCode integrates the following actions: Build Succeeded, Preprocessing Complete, Compilation Succeeded, Clean Complete, ...

Learn Cocoa with your free time this holiday

by Scott McNulty (Dec 24th, 2007)

Let's face it, during the holiday season we all need to take a little break from our families (even though we love them). Why not do something productive when you're squirreled away in that spare bedroom hiding in the bed from your Aunt Dora? Cocoa Dev Central has just updated their great Cocoa ...

Journeys inside the iPhone's SDK

by Erica Sadun (Aug 3rd, 2007)

I have now spent a pretty solid week writing applications for the iPhone. And what an exciting week it's been. I've been privileged to view and interact with the iPhone in a way that few other people have had the opportunity to. The iPhone is tight, robust and its SDK--even seen through such ...

TUAW Interview series: Brent Simmons on the Leopard delay - does it change anything?

by David Chartier (Apr 20th, 2007)

Apple's announcement that Leopard has been delayed until October was quite the shocker, especially since we apparently have the iPhone to thank. This of course elicited nearly every response you can think of from every walk of life, but we don't often hear from what I feel is one of the most ...

The Year in Mac Development - Scott Stevenson

by Mat Lu (Jan 2nd, 2007)

Scott Stevenson of Cocoa Dev Central has an extensive (i.e. long and interesting) post on the year in Macintosh development. He discusses a variety of hot topics including the transition to Intel, the controversy over Macheist, the apparent deprecation of the Human Interface Guidelines, and much ...

Developers unleash exclusive offers for MacHeist participants

by David Chartier (Dec 21st, 2006)

One of the appeals of MacHeist that a few participating developers cited for their participation is residual sales. Things like upgrade licenses, extra plugins and add-ons can all be big boosts to a 3rd party developer's revenue, and some of MacHeist's participating devs have certainly hit the ...

Cocoa Blogs, by Scott Stevenson

by David Chartier (Dec 12th, 2006)

I have to admit right up front that I'm not as familiar with the Mac dev community as I'd like to be. I don't know a lick about developing, and I get a bit intimidated as I know it's one of those trades that has a completely different set of constraints and connotations to manage; there's nothing ...

Mac OS X dev asks for input on creating a Flickr client

by David Chartier (Jul 15th, 2006)

Who doesn't love to get their $0.02 in on an app's development? Especially one as potentially handy as this could be: a Mac OS X developer and Flickr user by the name of otusweb is asking for input in a Flickr Group discussion on what users would like to see in a Mac OS X Flickr client. A few users ...

BuildFactory - automation for developers

by David Chartier (Jul 7th, 2006)

I'm no developer, but I can call a good dev tool when I see one. BuildFactory from Bleep Software sounds like 'Automator for developers', with features like automated builds, building refreshed sources from Subversion, using your own external editor for errors and warnings, and building multiple ...

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