Full disclosure, I grabbed this screenshot from a game I am playing lately – Hipster CEO. I don’t believe they are local, but the game has some great lessons to budding developers in the area. First off, the game is hard. You start as a bootstrapped single person company. Like most developers I can relate […]
Author: Michael Rowe
TapsBook App Review
This past Thursday, at the local Triangle Cocoaheads meeting, the creator of the app TapsBook showed his app and asked for feedback. Sherwood (the developer) expressed that his love of photography and desire to tell stories with all the pictures he came up with necessitated a better way of build photo books. The app is […]
One week with the iPad Air
I received my iPad Air this past Monday, and as promised, here is a little review. I’ve had every generation of the iPad up to the 3rd Generation. When the 4th Generation came out, I could not justify the speed bump ad the only benefit. Nor could I justify the mini, since it was not […]
Did you pick up your new toy today?
I ordered a new iPad Air this morning. My day is back to back calls and I figured there was no way I would be able to get out to pick one up. I went to the Apple online store and it looked like I was going to be able to order one with in […]
The iPad Air
Apple made a few announcements this week… And like many I had been hoping that the fingerprint reader would be added to the iPad … Like others, I was hoping that Apple would announce a Retina version of the iPad mini. So I guess I should be 50% happy. Realistically, I think the fingerprint reader […]
G-Wizz! Plus Review
While I was at the Google Glass event a few weeks back, I met the developer of G-Wizz! Plus (Google Apps Browser Plus). He has written this app a while back, before all the really great Google apps were made available for iOS. We had a nice / brief discussion and I decided to see […]
Local Engineer’s cool Pen
A couple of months ago I was given a PressurePen by Chuck N, from the local Triangle Mac Users Group. The idea was to play with it and write up a blog entry. I had been running iOS7 most of the summer, and the app didn’t seem to work with iOS 7 on either my […]
Autolayout improvements
Ok, well not really improvements to auto layout on iOS, but improvements in my understanding of Auto Layout. The biggest thing I learned is that it is easier to setup and manage constraints in code, then to try and use Storyboards to define and modify the constraints. If you have not used AutoLayout, Apple recommends […]
Off Topic – Blogging and Comments
It’s been over a year and a half that I’ve been working this blog. Not a long time, compared to some of my podcasts, but still a lot of posts, and some good traffic. What I’ve not figured out how to do is to get comments in any significant number. So here is a request […]
The Google Glass Interface
In my last post I asked, rhetorically, was Google Glass a view of the new interface to come. I didn’t answer the question, nor even really think thru it, as I wanted to thinking on the question overnight. So is it? I think Google Glass does a great job of changing how you interact with […]