iPhone

A VC take on Android

October 18, 2010

Fred Wilson is a well known venture capitalist who coined the term “Freemium” which is a business model where you offer basic services for free and make money through selling advanced services. His latest post is how Android will own the market in a few years because of its low price point. I don’t follow [...]

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For Aspiring iPhone App Developers

July 30, 2010

I would like to see a lot more iPhone apps that entertain, encourage, and educate from a confessional perspective. To that end, I would like to encourage anyone who’s interested to start developing some apps and I’d be willing to help to the best of my abilities. One book I can recommend on the subject [...]

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BDD an iPhone App?

June 4, 2010

I read an article on the state of testing in Cocoa. The author, Alex Vollmer, paints a pretty dismal picture of BDD in Cocoa community and I’d have to agree with him. In my decision to use Ruby over Python for my web apps, I mentioned that BDD (Cucumber and RSpec) and the Ruby testing [...]

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“Build and Analyze” is your Friend

June 3, 2010

While tracking down a memory leak in my latest app, which looks to be a known problem with the simulator, I ran into someone suggestion to run the “Build and Analyze” (B&A) command from the Build menu in Xcode. Being an Xcode novice, I had never tried this before. Well, I would just like to [...]

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Triglotta – The Book of Concord

April 2, 2010

My second iPhone app is available on the App Store. “Triglotta – The Book of Concord” is a version of The Book of Concord that is designed for the iPhone and is also optimized to work with the iPad. The idea was suggested by Frank Gillespie on Twitter and I picked it up and built [...]

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Cwirla goes Worldwide

March 1, 2010

What follows are the download statistics for the first full week that “Cwirla” was available. I have no idea what they mean. I’m just surprised that France and China were 2nd and 3rd in downloads. Title Units Country Code Cwirla 46 US Cwirla 37 FR Cwirla 36 CN Cwirla 22 IT Cwirla 22 BR Cwirla [...]

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The Cwirla iPhone App

February 22, 2010

I received approval last Friday evening for my first two iPhone Applications (they work on the iPod Touch and should work on the iPad when it is released). The inspiration for the Apps came from Pastor Todd Wilken when, after discussing the video I made “There’s a Pastor for That“, wished for a “Cwirla App” [...]

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The Clock is Ticking

February 18, 2010

My urge to try a new kind of development got to me again and I’ve jumped on the iPhone development bandwagon. The nice thing about iPhone development is that the definition of a proper application is a lot more basic than a web or desktop application. I started my dive into iPhone development last week [...]

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