The Chicken Coop

Nick Arnott at Neglected Potential has a great Mind Map up showing all the different combinations for iOS testing I had previously posted about a mind map for getting started with mobile testing

Android has long been the poor cousin from a design perspective. The older versions - ok, even the "most popular current version" (2.2) - looked dated, inconsistent and clunky against

So, the NZ Herald is going paywall. Eventually. Appearing on Media3, Mr Currie was asked about rumours that nzherald.co.nz content would be put behind a paywall next year. "I think

Craig Dunn, of the Xamarin docs team, has a post up about using the new Microsoft Azure Mobile Services from MonoTouch. Azure Mobile Services consist of an underlying REST API, so it didn't

Bytepie announced today that they are stopping the development of iAgent, which was a (competing) client for FreeAgent. Sadly, the journey for us has come to an end. We love iAgent, we really

Chris Downer from Realmac Software down in Brighton has a great post about his retina design workflow. When the Retina MacBook Pro was announced, I was excited that one of my favourite hardware

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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