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Big Nerd Ranch Clash of the Coders: Innovation, fun, inspiration

by Erica Sadun (May 2nd, 2013)

Founded 12 years ago, Atlanta's Big Nerd Ranch is well-known among the Apple developer community as a prime source for corporate and individual training. Created to provide professional services for Apple technologies, its mission has grown to include both contract programming as well as ...

Briefs for the Mac lets developers create interactive app demos with just a few clicks

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 1st, 2013)

Briefs is a design tool for the busy developer who wants to show off their beautiful app without crafting a full-on prototype. Created by Rob Rhyne of Martiancraft, the professional-level tool is filled with features that allow you to bring your app to life without typing a single line of code. We ...

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 selling out in record time. For those who can't join ...

Apple offers select developers another chance to purchase WWDC 2013 tickets

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 26th, 2013)

With tickets to WWDC 2013 selling out in mere minutes, Apple has reportedly been reaching out to select developers who couldn't secure tickets in time and offering them another chance to purchase tickets to Apple's annual developer conference. Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software sent out a ...

Circadia celebrates 100,000 downloads with new content

by Mike Schramm (Apr 25th, 2013)

Circadia is a great game that I wrote about a little over a year ago -- it's put together by a developer named Kurt Bieg, and until now, it's basically just been sitting on the App Store waiting to be found. But Bieg has just put out a nice solid update for the game, and that gives me another ...

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 are organizing AltWWDC this year, a free 5-day event ...

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 needed something, didn't like what was out there and ...

Apple offers 150 student scholarships to WWDC 2013

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 24th, 2013)

Like it has done in previous years, Apple is offering scholarships for students to attend WWDC. Students must be at least 13 years old and a member of the iOS developer program. To apply, each student must create an app that'll showcase their coding skills, background and interests. Apple will ...

Apple has paid out $9 billion to developers; App Store downloads reach 45 billion

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 24th, 2013)

Apple's earnings conference calls are typically brimming with interesting tidbits regarding Apple's operations, and Tuesday's was no different. Apple announced that it has, to date, paid out more than $9 billion to developers. To put that figure into context, let's take a quick look at just ...

Ambrosia Software employees report layoffs, but company says it's still in business (updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 10th, 2013)

Tweets posted in the past couple hours from Ambrosia Software employees reveal that a number of its developers have been laid off. "End of an era, so long and thanks for all the fish, ambrosia. On to the next adventure," Rudy Richter, a software developer for Ambrosia, tweeted. Subsequent ...

Payback 2 goes free-to-play

by Mike Schramm (Apr 10th, 2013)

Payback 2 arrived on the App Store late last year. It's the sequel to a game called Payback that was sort of a Grand Theft Auto for iOS (before Grand Theft Auto for iOS was actually released). Payback 2 added online multiplayer and a new "custom mode," and as of today, it has gone free-to-play, ...

DevJuice: Better Objective-C associated objects

by Erica Sadun (Apr 10th, 2013)

iOS/OS X internals guru Gwynne Raskind tipped me off to a much better way of creating associated object keys. Until now, I've been doing this: static const char nametag_key; return objc_getAssociatedObject(self, (void *) &nametag_key); Turns out there's a much easier and better way. ...

DevJuice: Three useful Xcode tricks

by Erica Sadun (Apr 8th, 2013)

Some Xcode challenges seem to crop up repeatedly. Today, I thought I'd share a few solutions that you might find helpful to integrate into your workflow. Challenge: When you move an Xcode project to a new folder, all your file references die. Solution: Avoid those red "can't find" file ...

Google Drive adds apps folders and customer properties for developers

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 5th, 2013)

Google realizes the importance of its Drive online file storage service in our always-on, always-connected world. To make Drive better for users and developers alike, Google has added two new features, app data folders and custom properties, to its Drive SDK. The app data folder serves as a ...

Daily iPhone App: bit Dungeon is a retro RPG done well

by Mike Schramm (Apr 3rd, 2013)

bit Dungeon arrived on the App Store a little while ago, and if you missed it then, you'd do well to try it out now. Quite a few games have used the old 8-bit, top-down RPGs as a rubric, but bit Dungeon is probably the best example I've seen of all of them. You simply go from room to room, ...