Author: Michael Rowe

24 Hours with the iPhone 5s

I picked up a new iPhone 5s yesterday. I had been using an iPhone 4S, and have consistently been on the “s” upgrade path, so it was time. So what do I think of it. It is certainly fast. I don’t mean blow your hair back, screaming fast, I just mean noticeably faster than what […]

Users, Customers, and Consumers

I’ve been working in the IT business for a very long time. I started as a computer operator on main frames and super computers as an undergrad, and even had a home computer years before that (and long before home computers were normal). With that preface, I started thinking recently about the terminology that is […]

Apple’s 5s and 5c – worth the wait?

So yesterday Apple officially revealed their latest new phones – iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s. While much of the announcement had long since been leaked by the supply chain (so much for the secrecy of Jobs, welcome to the openness of Cook), there were still a few surprises – really only on the iPhone5s. The […]

An Event in San Francisco

Yesterday Apple made the event official – at least according to the flurry of post about people receiving invites to an event: here, here, and here. If the rumors are to believed, this should be the launch of iOS7, iPhone5s, and iPhone5c, with a purchase date almost immediately thereafter. (According to Sept. 20th. In the […]

Core Data and iOS (Part 2)

In the last post, I described how to create the template Core Data App, and showed you a few screenshots.  In this one I’ll walk thru the files that are created: First lest’s look at the structure of the project.  We choose a universal app, so we have two storyboards, one for the iPad and […]

Core Data and iOS

I’ve been working on a new app lately, and I’ve taken this time to try and teach myself CoreData.  CoreData is the mechanism by which Apple has taken traditional SQL database and mapped it to the programming model used in iOS apps.  Over the next few blog entries I will try and describe my learning […]

Is Your App Ready

If the rumor mill is to be believed, Apple will announce their new iPhone on Sept. 10th. That is not too far away, and as such means developers are working hard to have launch titles available. Realistically, I doubt that Apple will make the iPhone 5s/c or whatever it will be called, ready on the […]

Android – Root or wait?

For my Android needs, I currently have an Galaxy Tab 2 (10 inch). It is running Android 4.2.1 and I have been wanting to install the latest version of Android, but Samsung has yet to roll the update out for my device. I have read that they are rolling it out around the world, but […]

Apple finishes update to Developer Portal

Last night, as I was checking my email before going to bed, I got a note from Apple that their replace/rebuild of the Developer portal had been completed and all services are working again.  Great news, and hopefully Apple has addressed, not only the security flaws identified by the Turkish researcher, but any fundamental design […]