In today’s mobile development environment using the device’s GPS in some shape, form or fashion is a given. Apple provides a great toolset for developers to access and utilize this functionality, but this is often done carelessly. I am not talking about privacy concerns...
The New Comer – Applicasa Last month I wrote a quick review of the two BaaS providers that I had used, StackMob and Parse. A few days later I received an email from Tzvi Kopetz, COO and co-founder of Applicasa, a backend solution provider who, even in it’s infancy...
Forward Geocoding It is a common scenario that every developer has run into. Locate places near me based upon a particular address and/or zip code. In order to get the correct results the address needs to be converted to a lat/long coordinate. With iOS5 Apple has provided...
Evolutionary Not RevolutionaryIt is evolutionary, not revolutionary, for most iOS developers to go from copying the same set of “library” files from project to project, to creating a static library which is then shared between projects to finally creating a universal...
One of the best interview questions that I have ever been asked, and now ask myself to potential candidates, is create a function that will transform any set of words into an acronym. The reason why I like this question is that it shows how well the candidate understands...
Urban Airship has decided to shut down the SimpleGeo services that it acquired by March 31st, 2012. I personally see this as step-backwards for the services that they offer and to the SimpleGeo customer’s who rely on the data.* stiQRd (I am lead developer) uses it for...
98% of my time is spent developing iOS apps and most of them talk so some sort of web-service. Most of the web frameworks that exist today written in PHP, Python and Ruby abstract a lot of “boiler-plate” code the is tedious and error prone. They saves us valuable time...
Besides collection/list iterations, string concatenation is probably the most common developer task. Doesn’t matter the language. Unfortunately, this is done incorrectly, especially with large strings. I myself am guilty of taking for granted what goes on under the...
By far the most view blog article that I have, and subsequent Github project, is my Universal iOS App Template. Unfortunately, it has been a tad bit neglected. There were some memory leaks, still supported 3.2 and not iOS5 compatible. Now that I am working from home...
