Author: Michael Rowe

Apple Developer Portal Update

Last Thursday I got a password reset email on my iOS developer account, one that I didn’t request. Given that I didn’t request it, I filed it away for when I had time to call Apple and find out what was going on. Well yesterday I got an email from Apple indicating that someone had […]

Keeping your code new – a dilemma

I’ve written a post on this idea from the perspective of your users, should you upgrade your app to the latest level of an operating system. I’ve even talked about how you learn by keeping up with the latest releases of API’s and interfaces. But what about the down side? Traditionally large IT companies have […]

It’s all a matter of public record

I recently had the chance to review a locally developed app called Public Record. This application provides search capabilities for legal documents and court records in the state of North Carolina. There are multiple applications that provide this capability, but I cannot compare the functionality as I have not tried them. As a supporter of […]

Podcasts and patents

A few weeks ago I stared hearing about a patent claim from the mid 1990’s that would change how we all create and consume patents. The podcast community is asking for help and support to invalidate this patent. If you can help out, please follow this link and help! Thanks.

Experiences with Constraints and Storyboards

Well, it was a challenge, but I got it done. This past weekend I spent most of the time refactoring my personal app to using iOS 6.1’s autolayout capabilities. While I started off pulling out my hair, I ended the weekend with screens that looked pretty good, and that correctly handled almost everything I could […]

iOS Storyboards, AutoLayout, and Constraints

I’ve been in the process of refactoring my app – Wasted Time in order to add native Facebook integration and a new ToDo feature. As part of this refactoring, I am changing from a simple UITabBarController to a UINavagationController based root control. This change will allow me to have the ToDoViewController be able to be […]

Does the xBox Announcement Matter

Microsoft has finally made their next generation console announcement. You can watch a replay here. This got me thinking, does it matter? The basics are an improved processor, more cloud integration, improved Kinect, and better media center capabilities. As more and more people are become cord cutters, and more and more gaming is happening on […]

Google Developer’s Conference

*** It seems that this post didn’t go up when I thought it would..not sure what happened (I am sure it is a users/poster error). I was lucky enough to have a very long drive during the Google IO keynote so I had time to listen to the livestream of all three hours while driving […]