The CBC, BCIT, and New Media BC will be hosting the Vancouver iPhone Forum next Tuesday.
Vancouver iPhone Forum
November 24, 2009. 8:00 AM
BCIT Downtown Campus
2nd Floor, 555 Seymour Street
Vancouver, BC
I will be presenting, along with Kevin Kimmett, a session on Touch Interface Design. Kevin is fantastic designer that works at the CBC. He has lead the [...]
Yesterday, Apple announced that they would allow In App Purchases for free applications in the iTunes App Store. Previously, In App Purchases were only available in paid applications.
Software As A Service
This will allow developers to shift away from the Software As A Product model to the Software As A Service model. We have seen this [...]
The Hidden Asset: Salesforce
Last week Fred Wilson blogged about the hidden asset that local media has. He used the example of the Village Voice having a large sales team that can go out to businesses to sell advertising around their content.
The New York Times also mentioned how Old and New Media are finding partnerships that [...]
I was interviewed Tuesday morning for The Early Edition on the CBC. The interview was about the Gold Rush nature of the iTunes Application Store.
The interview was later edited for the web. Apps golden for Vancouver iPhone programmer.
Land Grab
The top 100 or so Apps in each category generate sustainable revenue for developers. However, there are [...]
It’s been widely reported that Apple has acquired Placebase. (TechCrunch, TUAW). Placebase is a mapping company that adds a layer of intelligence on top of map data.
Currently, Apple uses Google Maps for Maps.App on the iPhone. A native Google Latitude client is not available for the iPhone. There is some fuzziness as to whether Apple [...]
Brad Feld is a venture capitalist from Boulder, Colorado. He is a Managing Director at The Foundry Group and is involved in the startup mentorship group called TechStars that provides seed founding.
The good folks at Bootup Labs brought Brad Feld up to Vancouver last week to riff on entrepreneurship and business. Brad wrote about [...]
Last week I was interviewed by the Georgia Straight. I also went down to the Georgia Straight offices and had my picture taken. The article has been republished on the Georgia Straight site.
The article focuses on iPhone Development here in Vancouver and the opportunities for education and training. A big part of the article is about the [...]
The February iPhone Developers Meetup takes place this Wednesday at The Network Hub.
February iPhone Developers Meetup
The Network Hub
3rd floor – 422 Richards Street
Vancouver, B.C.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
7PM – 8:30PM
I will be doing a demo presentation on Optimizing Performance on the iPhone. Memory optimization is key on the iPhone since it is an embedded device. I’ll [...]
I will be in Seattle December 9th for Apple’s iPhone Tech Talk World Tour. There is an agenda [PDF] available. The topics seem fairly straight forward and basic. However, it should be a good place to directly ask Apple questions related to iPhone development.
I am a prolific note taker. You can read my notes from GDC 2008. [...]
The good people at Handi Mobility shipped the Translink App for the iPhone earlier this week. One of the best features of the Translink App is its use of Location Services provided by the iPhone. The user is able to find bus stops located near them.
The App uses PhoneGap to bridge the data that Translink has [...]