Nic Wise

David Ortinau has an excellent slide deck covering the rise of Xamarin. Really worth a read. Write Once Run Anywhere: Do you hate your users? Most cross-platform solutions benefit developers and customers, but rarely value users and user experience. Amen to that.

Today - or yesterday, depending on your time zone - Facebook released their new iOS client, which has moved from a HTML5-based app, to a native iOS app. It's been all over the usual places: The Verge: Facebook for iOS goes native, waves goodbye

My soon-to-be co-worker, Chris(NTR) Hardy, is on the latest Herding Code podcast, talking about MonoTouch and Mono for Android. It's a short episode from NDC, only 16min long, so if you are wondering what MT and MfA is, it's a good, quick overview.

Update: while I still think that Onavo is collecting more info than they let on (eg HTTPS), the "crashing" problem is more around mobileAgent's handling of a proxy, than Onavo's specific proxy. Same may be true for Giffgaff. If you are having

I've been using various tablet-sized devices for a while, on and off. We did a lot of work on 800x600 A5 Windows CE tablets in around 2004, writing .NET Compact Framework apps for ACNielson (the survey people - same parent company as Nielson's, who

Telerik have just announced their Test Studio recording / automation software now supports MonoTouch. Test Studio for iOS now supports testing of MonoTouch applications out-of-the-box. All you need to do is configure your MonoTouch project with our testing extension, and it becomes testable. You can

Make that the "theoretically new iPhone screen size". But still, it's a nice hack from Cedric Luthi. Earlier today, my friend Peter Steinberger asked if there is a way to tweak the iOS simulator device size. So I investigated, and found a

A STYLE GUIDE GUIDE He asked me to write up a list of "best practices," if you will, for him to base his visual style work off of. This list is a compilation of my AEA notes, articles and links I've saved,

Excellent news from Nat, Miguel, Joseph and co What's more, everything we've accomplished so far was done without raising any outside investment. We earned every dollar we spent. We're very proud of that, and we hope that it's had a permanent effect on our

The Rocket Espresso machine has been here for a few days now, and I can say, without a doubt, that it's A-may-zing. If you knew how much I hate it when people say amazing like that, you'd know just how good it is. Thanks

From the always excellent iOS Dev Weekly mailout: Fluid UI This is a slick, web based prototyping and wireframing tool for building quick iOS (and others) app mockups. Feels a bit like the Xcode storyboard editor but implemented in a web browser. Wow. How

About 2 months ago, our fairly old and well used (and loved) espresso machine died, dumping its water tank all over the bench. It had had a good life, however - 4 years of service, making around 4000 shots of espresso over that time.

Chris and I were on iDeveloperTV's podcast #59 last night, talking with Scotty about MonoTouch. It's normally a very Objective-C-focused show, but I think we managed a very balanced discussions about when MonoTouch/MonoForAndroid etc are useful for iOS developers. Scotty talks with Chris

The slides from iOSDevUK are up, which reminds me I really should get to one of these - it's their second year, and reports out of there were all positive. Of the few that are up there, these caught my attention: Shawn Welch's talk

This, mostly brilliant, slide deck has been floating around the 'nets for a while. It's from Mike Krieger, a co-founder of Instagram. He makes a lot of good points about mobile app design - not the visual, but the functional. The only thing I

Might be a (minor?) NDA breach, but worth a look for developers looking at iOS6. iOS6 - What's new - jurajivan

Chris has just posted the video, audio and slides from my Xaminar on Thursday, on how to style your iOS apps using UIAppearance. Obviously, the samples and code are in MonoTouch, but any Objective-C developer with half a brain should be able to do

Brilliant article from the ever-inciteful Mr Gemmell. There’s nothing to be gained from engaging with people at that level. Here we come to the nub of the matter: I’m not saying we shouldn’t be able to engage with customer reviews. We

Despite rumours, my day job isn't writing iPhone apps (sadly). I have been creating websites and doing general software development as a "day job" well before I started with MonoTouch and iPhone apps. In the last 12 months - since we got

One of the more interesting parts of Earnest was that it was highly visual, and well designed. The FreeAgent folks didn't want to use any (or many) of the standard iOS styles, and wanted the app to follow their new branding and style that

There is a bit of talk around upgrade pricing for iOS apps, and the pitfalls around it and why Apple is not likely to offer it any time soon. Amplified(5 by 5). Build and Analyze Instacast 2.0 on The Verge. Most of

Cesare Rocchi has an article called On why I am not buying RubyMotion, with his reasons why he's not going to use RubyMotion (found via the ever useful iOS Dev Weekly). I agree with some of it, but overall, I think it's a bit

London has a lot of things going for it - bars, restaurants, shows, great shops, lovely outdoor spaces, generally nice people - but breakfast is not one of them. Sure, there are places where you can get breakfast, but the quality - for someone

About every 12 to 18 months, I make a habit of upgrading our hard drives. This keeps them nice and new, and so far, failure free*. Last time, I got the new (at the time) Seagate Momentus XT, which is a HDD/SSD hybrid

Over the last 3 months or so, I've been working with FreeAgent on an iOS app for people who are covered by the new HMRC rules around micro-businesses. I'll let Roan explain it more: But first, a story. Once upon a time (last November