Become a Blockhead

Just started messing with Octopress in the hopes of replacing my old blog with it, and an rsync accident actually wiped out the old blog entirely. Oh snap!

Until I have time to fix that, I guess it’s just time to start blogging from scratch. Let’s start with the links to the presentation I gave today at the Oredev 2011 conference:

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Beginning iPhone 4 Development on shelves soon!

My latest book project is now done! Unlike what I’ve done before, this isn’t an entirely new book, but instead a new update of what’s been a highly popular series of books [1, 2] by Dave Mark and Jeff Lamarche. Now I’ve been added to the mix, and I think that what we’ve come up with is a great new edition that will appeal to anyone starting off with iPhone/iPad development. Even if you already have a previous edition, there’s plenty of new stuff:

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Oredev 2010

A couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to visit this year’s Øredev conference. Øredev is a software development conference that’s been held each of the last 6 or 7 years in Malmö, at the southern tip of Sweden. Not only was this my first time in Malmö, it was also the first time I’ve given talks myself at such a large conference, and I thought I’d share some thoughts with anyone who cares to listen.

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So long, HostingRails.com

After trying and failing to get any satisfaction from hostingrails.com about some issues, I discovered that the nice little company whose service I signed up for years ago has been purchased by some bigger company that is totally lousy. So, I’m in the process of moving all my domains, and perhaps changing the technology that powers this blog. In the interim, I’ve turned off some features that I haven’t quite gotten working on the new servers, such as the archives, categories, and comments. Hopefully I’ll be able to get things squared away before too long.

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Nordic Mobile Developers Summit

Spent all day yesterday at the Nordic Mobile Developers Summit, where I gave a talk on developing iPhone/iPad apps, a lightning demo of how some of the dev tools work, and took part in some panel discussions and Q&A.

Several of the other speakers and panelists are people who are more deeply involved in the handset manufacturers’ side of things, including representatives from Microsoft, Nokia, and SonyEricsson. I assume the organizers tried to bring in someone from Apple, but it seems that Apple doesn’t really do that sort of thing much, at least not here in Stockholm; So they got me!

I had a great time, and met lots of interesting people during the breaks, and got some new perspectives on what the “other side” of the smartphone industry is doing. And let’s be clear, by “other side” I really mean “losing side”. It’s not often that my technology of choice is so clearly on top of the world the way that iPhone and iPad are right now, so I won’t hesitate to rub that in when I can! I also couldn’t help but make some unnecessary jabs at Microsoft during my talk. As if it matters what I think about Microsoft! Ha ha.

Anyway. A few people were asking yesterday if my slides would be up anywhere. I know that everyone’s slides were gathered, but I don’t know when or where the NMDS people will put them all up, so here are mine, both in the original Keynote format for modern Mac and iPad people, and PDF for everyone else.



Keynote version (Contains amazing animation on one slide! You have been warned!)

PDF version

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