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When I started my career at Microsoft I was on the QA team and I distinctly remember a conversation with one of my team leaders that went something like this: Me: “We’re responsible for the quality of the product.” Test Manager: <Laughs> Me: “Then who owns it?” Test Manager: “Everyone – the job of the [...]
12/10/2010
This means I’ve now earned $70 for Reading With Rover. As a thank you to everyone that’s purchased this application I now present you with a preview of version 1.1… minus one surprise.
12/04/2010
Someone reported a “bug” in GoodDay that they “didn’t like the splash screen” I used: And I admit that I’m not a designer, but I thought this was a clean screen to show while the app was loading. Until… I started playing with the built in Apple apps and realized they don’t use a splash [...]
Having only sold 60 copies of GoodDay you probably should seek advice outside of this post, but these are the things I learned in my app store process. 1. Research your name, keywords, and categories by searching and browsing both the store and google. These are things you can’t change after your app is approved. [...]
11/24/2010
This post is a collection of tips I learned while developing GoodDay for the iPhone with PhoneGap. 1. Start with something off the shelf – After “Hello World” I started with using jQtouch as a shortcut to iPhone UI. jQTouch is a jQuery plugin for mobile web development. I’d describe it as a combination of [...]
11/23/2010
I picked PhoneGap mostly because I wanted to learn more about modern HTML, CSS, & jQuery. I viewed the cross platform capabilities as a side-benifit. In fact I have’t released a version yet for the other app stores. So here are some tips I learned while developing GoodDay.
11/17/2010
But you don’t want to learn Objective-C, you aren’t trying to build something that requires high performance graphics, you want it to look and feel like an application, and you are primarily web developer that thinks that things should run cross platform simply. If this describes you then this series of posts may help motivate [...]
Last week I took some vacation. For me it meant a chance to actually open up an IDE and write some code. I wanted to learn more about developing for emerging mobile and HTML 5 standards since more of our clients are now expecting “Mobile” to be part of the solution. Here is what I [...]
Everyone believes that their product has a few strengths, This is the set of things that your product does better than anything else out there. If you didn’t you wouldn’t be building it right? But do you really know what those strengths are? The reality is that you have very little to do with [...]
