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Friday, July 30th, 2010

When you’re developing, you gotta have the right tools for the job

When developing for mobile, its important that you are able to support all “in the wild” versions of operating systems and hardware you are targeting.
Here at tapadoo, all iPhone projects are tested on iPod Touch, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. We’re also updating our style guidelines for developers, and henceforth all supplied [...]

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

We’re gonna need a bigger boat

iPhone development company WLTM iOS developers for mutual friendship, maybe more. We have a healthy pipeline and are looking for people who share our interest in all things Apple. Our ideal candidate would have some if not all of the following:

Proven track record in releasing iOS applications
Have at least gained certification at beginner [...]

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Finally! A Figure

One of the big questions I come across when dealing with clients is the question of iPhone penetration in Ireland. Clients want to know the type of reach their app idea may get, and this is a valid question.
We’ve tried getting this a number of times, but it is a commercially sensitive figure; We’ve [...]

Monday, February 1st, 2010

The Future’s Bright

I was asked to speak at the Young Entrepreneur event in Kerry last week. The organisers wanted the perspective of an iPhone developer to show that developing iPhone apps can be done with reasonably low barriers, whilst still being able to produce a viable business.
I’ve done a few speaking events on iPhone this year; [...]

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Engaging your users – The holy grail for iPhone Applications

When you launch an iPhone Application, you put it up on the iTunes App store. If you’re lucky it will be purchased by users. If you’re very lucky, they’ll give it good ratings, and if you’re very very lucky, the’ll add favourable reviews.
Apple will share with you download and sales figures, but you [...]

Friday, July 10th, 2009

It all starts out very innocent

It all started out very innocent. My wife got it for me for my birthday. It was the first iPod I wanted. Up until then, I always thought that they were a little bulky.
She ordered direct from the Apple store, complete with engraving, and it came a few days later. A [...]

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Thoughts on WWDC ‘09 (or Whats wrong with being a geek anyway?)

I was lucky enough to visit Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) this year. This post consists of my initial thoughts having come back.
The Keynote
The keynote was interesting from a number of points of view. We were advised to get there early to ensure a place in the main auditorium, which must hold 4000 people. [...]

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

If there’s one tip I’d give you when submitting your app, this is it

If there’s one tip you should listen to when releasing your app to itunes connect, it is this one:
When uploading to itunesconnect, set your release date far in the future. When it comes ready for sale, set it back to when you really want to release it.
Here’s why….
So, I finally go through the contracts [...]

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Welcome

All blogs need to start with a welcome page. I don’t know why, but it seems the most obvious thing to do. I guess it can be used to tell people what you will be writing about, etc.
Here’s some things I may be writing about, in no particular order: software, Objective-C, Java, the [...]