April 2011
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November 2010
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October 2010
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iOS talks at SoCal Code Camp
I will be presenting two introduction to iOS development sessions at the upcoming SoCal Code Camp this weekend (October 23rd & 24th at USC, Los Angeles). SoCal Code Camp is held a few times a year and admission is free.
My sessions are for people who are considering iOS (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad) development. In my sessions, I plan to answer all their questions. Questions like: What do you...
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“The best allies are those who don’t think like the others.”
– Paulo Coelho in a ‘20 second read’ about the process of writing. Reading that, it seems to me writing is a lot like creating great software.
September 2010
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Inside Cocoa
I took this picture inside Château de Chenonceau. The same French castle that is pictured on the cover of Cocoa Design Patterns. On the book cover the outside of this castle is shown, which is pretty impressive, especially because the bridge that spans the river Cher is part of the castle. The picture above is taken inside that bridge. The inside is still nice, but not nearly as impressive as...
August 2010
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Saguaro
Close-up of a Sagauro. Makes excellent wallpaper. Sagauros are very big; some may live for more than 150 years.
Photo taken in Saguaro National Park, Tucson, Arizona.
Photo above also taken in Saguaro National Park.
Photo below taken somewhere alongside the road in Tucson.
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Speaking at Ignite: It was different
As I wrote about this before I was one of the speakers at Ignite San Diego earlier this week. (Photos are here.) More people signed up to speak than there were slots available so part of the selection process was a vote through ‘uservoice’ (great site). Fortunately I was selected although the subject of my talk, iPhone Development, was not as hip as most of the other proposed...
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July 2010
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Speaking at Ignite about iPhone Development
This Tuesday I am scheduled to give a presentation at Ignite San Diego about iPhone Development. A presentation at Ignite is accompanied by a 20-slide deck (Keynote or PowerPoint) that advances automatically. Each slide is shown for 15 seconds, so the complete presentation takes five minutes.
Ignite was inspired by Pecha Kucha Nights, where speakers are given 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds,...
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Apps that don't exist, but should
David Pogue, the well-known columnist for the New York Times on everything gadget, no, everything technology, did something interesting: David asked his Twitter followers which apps were still missing in the iTunes App Store. In other words, which apps do they want for their iPhone (or iPad, or iPod touch) but are not available?
It is an interesting article which you can read here; one paragraph...
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Orange
Today the Netherlands will play Spain in the soccer world cup final. On Queens Day (April 30th) and with important soccer matches of the national Dutch team, Holland turns orange. Here is my cappuccino, made by the very nice folks of Twiggs.
More photos of ‘the making of’:
Next time I do something like this I need to make sure to bring a camera that allows me to focus...
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Dutch members of parliament ask questions about...
With the release of iOS 4, which brings us, among other features, iAd, Apple has updated the iTunes end-user license agreement and privacy policy. With this Apple enables itself to collect even more user information as the company already did, now also allowing to constantly collect the user’s location based on the iPhone’s GPS. Apple wants to use this information to tailor an ad to...
June 2010
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iPhone 4: First Impressions
For the Dutch website One More Thing I did a quick review of the new iPhone 4. The new phone went on sale today in the US, but not in every country. My Dutch and Belgian readers at One More Thing can not just go to an Apple Store and check out the phone. So I went and below are my first impressions:
Man, those lines at the Apple Store are long. Apple must be doing very well, these are the...
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What to do at a WWDC?
I hear they are a lot of folks at WWDC (Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference) this year that have never been at a WWDC before. I’m not there this year (due to fun ‘family circumstances’) but I have been to a WWDC about 15 times before. What to do at a WWDC? Here is my take:
Sessions: A WWDC is packed with sessions demonstrating / explaining / discussing older but...
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What will Steve Jobs say about Google at the WWDC...
It seems that this years WWDC will be about iPhone/iPad development mostly. Recently more and more people are saying the Google’s Android is the only big competitor to Apple’s iPhone OS. Some people are even saying Android market share is already bigger than Apple’s. What will Steve Jobs say about that in his keynote that starts the WWDC on June 7? How will Apple keep ahead of...
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