Longtime mobile developer feels no love from Apple

July 18, 2008

Imagine you are a software development company that has been around for 11 years, with award-winning titles for mobile computing devices. You follow the rules, you submit iPhone versions of your applications to the App Store, and yet you still haven’t seen your programs produce it to the store.

Yuma: New scripting tool for web developers

July 15, 2008

To web developers, scripting is the glue that connects web pages and back-end systems. For example, PHP is a very popular scripting environment that has been used to write web apps like WordPress and phpBB. For those of you who use PHP, you know that it is a dynamic, weakly-typed hypertext prepr…

WWDC ‘08: Charlie Wood (Spanning Sync)

July 8, 2008

I have officially managed to finish sorting and editing all of the footage from WWDC. The last video in our series is a chat with Charlie Wood from Spanning Sync. He managed to build it to an early appointment at my hotel on the dawn I was leaving, despite having made the most of a large-scale b…

iPhone app submission deadline: July 7th

July 3, 2008

We’ve been receiving tips all day about an e-mail some iPhone developers got from Apple today. In the e-mail, Apple is asking developers to submit their iPhone applications to the AppStore in order to be available for the iPhone 2.0 firmware / iPhone 3G launch. The deadline? July 7th … as in t…

Cornerstone passes Versions on the way to yesterday’s finish line

July 2, 2008

Cornerstone made a dashing premier as a full release recently, outpacing the much-anticipated Versions in its development cycle and leaving many of us wondering: why couldn’t we have had such polished Subversion clients back when Subversion really mattered? With friendlier and more flexible vers…

WWDC ‘08: Boinx + TheCodingMonkeys = BoinxTV

July 2, 2008

We heard from TheCodingMonkeys last week, and there was mention of a joint project with Boinx Software. Being a big fan of Boinx software (iStopMotion, Mousepose, Fotomagico), I couldn’t wait to see what they had up their sleeves. The project is called BoinxTV, and it’s going to be an invalu…

Bioware, EA’s Neil Young eyeing the iPhone game market

July 1, 2008

As we get closer and closer to the App Store launch (I’m still holding out for seeing an updated iTunes on July 8th, one week from today), a few big name game developers have announced that they’re checking out the market for gaming on the iPhone.

First up is Bioware, one of my favorite devel…

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