TR Review: Building iPhone OS Accessories: Use the iPhone Accessories API to Control and Monitor Devices

June 17, 2010

When Clay Andres of Apress first consulted me on a book idea about building iPhone Accessories I was a little skeptical. Ok, more then a little. But after discussing the book concept with its’ author, Ken Maskrey, I started to change my mind. Knowing first hand how difficult the “Works with iPhone” program can be, [...]

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One problem with WWDC

June 17, 2010

So it was my first WWDC. First I’ll go on record as saying I enjoyed it. It was crowed and busy. Which is good since Silicon Valley as my friend Ken Maskrey told me on a visit down there (after the show) is a ghost town. So at least something is hot and this seems [...]

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WWDC Keynote thoughts and reflection

June 17, 2010

One comment by Steve Jobs flashed back to me today. I’m really curious to see if it is true. I bet it it will be. “It’s beautiful like an old Leica Camera”. An amazing comment that shows what this guy is all about. It’s all about making amazing products first. It was a tremendous risk [...]

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Sell Out

June 16, 2010

After a day of ridiculously poor eCommerce execution it appears the iPhone 4 sold out of the current stock slated for the June 24 delivery. It just goes to show you. I’m actually still trying to figure out what it shows you.

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iPhone 4 Bad buying experience?

June 15, 2010

Well so far in trying all morning (off and on) it has NOT been possible to upgrade via the Apple site to the new iPhone 4. It got me thinking what an art scaling a Website still is. I call this the “Blivit” principe. Trying to put ten pounds of crap in a 5 pound [...]

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New Looks DeanOnSoftware.com and Kapsoft.com

June 14, 2010

I changed the look of both DeanOnSoftware.com (this blog) and our company site Kapsoft.com.  The Kapsoft.com is the refresh of our old site – and please note it is still under construction. I’m going to work on the content. For DeanOnSoftware I went to the Thesis theme with a simple look with just my picture [...]

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XCode 4

June 14, 2010

I’ll second Jeff LaMarche’s comments on XCode 4. (via WWDC).  Very very impressive. Since I have much more experience with Visual Studio (as it stares me in the face waiting for me to get back to work), I can easily compare the two. I think VS is a great mature tool for its .NET genre. I’ll have to [...]

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Back from WWDC

June 12, 2010

Just back to Philly on Red Eye this morning. Feeling like my ass was kicked in typical fashion. This was my first and I really enjoyed the conference. I know I’m under NDA, so there is not much to talk about there. General thoughts: I’m glad I got into the main room for keynote. Even though it [...]

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WWDC and Stencil give away

May 30, 2010

I’m going to my first WWDC. That should be a pretty cool and exciting time. To celebrate I’m going to give away 250 iPhone or iPad Stencils at the conference. A member of my crack team will attempt to give most of them away next to the line on monday before the keynote. I also [...]

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iPad Sketchbook Unboxing Authors Copies

May 22, 2010

I just received my authors copies of our new Apress iPad Sketch Book. Thanks to Apress guys for a great job. Many improvements were made this time around. Hope you enjoy it. Here are unboxing pics:

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