At the Voices That Matter 2009 iPhone developer conference there was a heavy emphasis on good design and August Trometer suggested using paper templates or whatever we could do to plot out or applications before diving into development. We even got an iPhone Sketchbook as a goodie from the conference, which is a neat notepad [...]

Sunday in Boston was a dreary and raining day. When the last session of the Voices That Matter conference ended, I decided to head to the airport. I still had about 3 hours before my flight, but the weather didn’t make it pleasant to drag my luggage around town. I decided to take public transportation [...]

Today was the second and last day of the conference. We started off with a keynote from Jessica Kahn of Tapulous, who gave us great insights to the success and troubles that the company had gone through with their Tap Tap Revenge offerings on the App Store. Jessica walked us through areas such as pricing, [...]

Today, was Day 1 of the conference, and I walked out of the hotel to go to the MCLE Conference center, while on the way, I meet up with 3 other attendee’s, the bunch of us got a little lost getting to the facility, which we almost missed due to construction obscuring the view. But [...]

I finally met up with Jennifer and James a little after 6:30pm. James got a little lost locating the Cub Quarters. Sadly, he suffered from what I suffered earlier; the GPS just doesn’t work in downtown Boston. Trying to follow the GPS myself earlier in the day, I managed to watch myself teleport all over [...]

Made into Boston without any issues today, smooth flight, and I even had a nice chat with a woman who works for Verizon, although she didn’t have much to add about the whole Verizon + Google partnership. I got in today around 1pm, and took the train into downtown, a pretty easy task! I was [...]

It’s finally here! Tomorrow, I’m off to the Voices That Matter iPhone conference. I’m looking forward to re-igniting my iPhone development interests, especially after my recent non-iPhone work related experiences. It’ll be nice to get away from home and hang out with all the development brains, maybe some of that awesomeness will rub off on [...]

Today ended day seven, the last day of the Big Nerd Ranch. It wasn’t a full day, we ended the day at noon. We had lunch and then it was off to the airport. For the last day we covered the address book, bonjour, preferences, and sqllite. Being a half day and having done [...]

Today ends the last full day of the Big Nerd Ranch iPhone Bootcamp. Hard to believe tomorrow’s a half day and we all go our separate ways, it’s even harder to believe the amount of information that’s been crammed into my skull over the last 6 days!
Today’s lessons were WebKit, Web Services, Media and OpenGL [...]

Day five draws to a close. The course material got much more challenging during the day 4 and 5. Today we continued with the table views exercises we began on Day 4 and expanded on what we had done to include editing table data and saving the information out to the internal disk. We also [...]