Beginning iOS 5 Development

I’m pleased to announce that Beginning iOS 5 Development has made its way into the world. The text was completed in November, the ebook was released just before Christmas, and the print book should be shipping any day now.

This book is the latest edition of what was previously known as Beginning iPhone X Development, where most of those X values were in sync with the latest released iPhone at the time of writing.

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Happy Thanksgiving

So, the time has come once again for Americans of all stripes to gather with their families, have a great meal together, and remember all the things they’re thankful for in their lives. Of course I live in Sweden where this is just a normal work day (my family and I celebrate the holiday with friends on Saturday instead), but hey, it’s the thought that counts.

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The Bones of my Buried Past

A couple of weeks ago, when I accidentally (and temporarily) wiped out all the older content on this blog, some other things were disrupted as well. One of these was a little chunk of the website dedicated to Scapedog, my old college band from 20 years ago.

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Oredev 2011 reflections

Last week I attended the [Oredev conference][oredev] for the second time, and thought I’d share some thoughts about the experience. I wrote a bit about last year’s conference a year ago (which at the current snail’s pace of this blog is just about 4 posts ago). [oredev]: http://oredev.org

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Return of the Old Posts

OK, calamity averted, I managed to bring all the older entries online. Fortunately I had written a script months ago to convert them all to textile, I had just never gotten around to switching to jekyll. Octopress made it all a bit more straightforward, and I could just drop all the old posts right in. Hoo. Ray. 4. Everything.

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