Video Course Launch 14 Feb, 2015
You may have received my email last week about a video course I've been working on in some time off between contracts. The course basically follows the process of developing an app from scratch through to submitting it to the App Store for review.
Well, today the App passed the review process and is now available for download, so I'm launching the course alongside it!
Check out the course by following this link: Learn how to make iPhone Apps through Video
This course is designed for beginners to iOS development (with other development experience) to demystify the process, learn some best practices, and get a leg up on the otherwise steep learning curve that developing Apps can be. I hope you find it helpful! And even if you don't decide to purchase it, I hope you enjoy the first few free videos on the course site.
And if you'd like to get the app, to get an idea of what the end result of the course is (it's a free download), click here: WallBrowser
Have a nice Valentine's day, all :)
Video Course Pre-launch 8 Feb, 2015
So I've had a couple weeks of time off between contracts. To be honest, I should have spent the time with my family, but I couldn't help myself, I got busy :)
I spent the time recording a series of screencasts of the process of building an app from beginning to end, all the way from creating a new project in Xcode through to submitting to the app store.
The plan is to do a proper launch with a sales site and everything when the App is released to the app store, but for now I've got the first few videos here:
Hope you get some value out of this!
Blogging Platforms 13 Jan, 2015
So I've been running a series of 'brownbag sessions' at work around the topic of starting a blog. I thought this would be appropriate in a building full of journalists! So far, it's been fantastic, almost a dozen very enthusiastic attendees.
One of the key issues that's come up has been which blogging platform to go with. I've narrowed down the options to Wordpress or Jekyll. But I found it very difficult to explain the difference between a static site generator (Jekyll) and a full-blown CMS (Wordpress). So I recorded screencasts demonstrating the workflows of each platform, to give the attendees a better impression of the differences. "Show, don't tell", and all that.
Here are the videos, thought they might be helpful to the wider world!
You can see older posts in the right panel, under 'archive'.
Archive
Video Course Launch 14 Feb 2015
Video Course Pre-launch 8 Feb 2015
Blogging Platforms 13 Jan 2015
Mobile in 2014 - Year in Review 11 Jan 2015
Secret Keys talk 16 Nov 2014
Dimmi 11 Nov 2014
Project setup in Xcode6 22 Oct 2014
Uploading to an S3 bucket from iOS 15 Oct 2014
iOS8 App Testing Roundup 28 Sep 2014
Storing obfuscated secret keys in your iOS app 16 Sep 2014
Getting Core Location / CLLocationManager to work on iOS8 14 Sep 2014
Accessing the response body in failure blocks with AFNetworking 2 10 Sep 2014
How to allow your UITextFields to scroll out of the way of the keyboard 8 Sep 2014
How to subclass UIButton in iOS7 and make a UIButtonTypeSystem 4 Sep 2014
New season 1 Aug 2014
House finished 17 Jun 2014
WebP decoding on iOS 9 Feb 2014
Moving on again 22 Jan 2014
Lossy images for retina iPads - JPEG vs WebP 30 Nov 2013
Career options I wish I knew about when I was younger 20 Oct 2013
Positivity and your friends 7 Oct 2013
Tactility 26 Jul 2013
WWDC-induced narcolepsy 15 Jul 2013
Back on rails 31 May 2013
Full circle 6 May 2013
Programmatic UI on iOS 3 May 2013
Screencasts and positivity 8 Apr 2013
Year of positivity 14 Mar 2013
iOS Dev State of the Union 6 Feb 2013
Adventures with IAPs 3 Feb 2013
No longer a Googler 23 Dec 2012
Localising iPhone apps with Microsoft Translator 8 Dec 2012
Fight back (app biz update 13) 12 Nov 2012
Sent to the backburner (app biz update 12) 25 Oct 2012
Lisi Schappi 7 Oct 2012
Today's happy plateau (app biz update 11) 26 Aug 2012
First week's sales of Today (app biz update 10) 19 Aug 2012
Today launch! And a difficult decision made... (app biz update 9) 15 Aug 2012
Approved! (app biz update 8) 5 Aug 2012
Creating a graph in Objective-C on the iPhone 3 Aug 2012
Hurry up and wait (app biz update 7) 30 Jul 2012
Today app marketing site 27 Jul 2012
Today app submitted 25 Jul 2012
UIAlertView input wrapper 24 Jul 2012
Mentoring 23 Jul 2012
This is too hard! (app biz update 6) 20 Jul 2012
Perspectives (app biz update 5) 9 Jul 2012
4th starting-my-own-biz update 1 Jul 2012
ScrumFox landing page 28 Jun 2012
Server Scope landing page 27 Jun 2012
Telstra Calls and Data Usage 26 Jun 2012
Service History + Dropbox 26 Jun 2012
Impromptu Presenter 26 Jun 2012
Fertility Tracker 26 Jun 2012
Baby Allergy Tracker 26 Jun 2012
Starting my own business, update 3 22 Jun 2012
Starting my own business, update 2 17 Jun 2012
Starting my own business - First update 10 Jun 2012
I must be crazy 6 Jun 2012
Finding your location on an iPhone 7 May 2012
A generous career 4 May 2012
Skeleton Key Cocoaheads presentation 3 May 2012
CHBgDropboxSync - Dropbox auto-sync for your iOS apps 1 May 2012
That book about that Steve Jobs guy 30 Apr 2012
Another app marketing idea 23 Apr 2012
Sweet grouped tables on the iPhone 17 Apr 2012
Skeleton Key App 11 Apr 2012
Another app marketing idea... 5 Apr 2012
Quickly check for any missing retina graphics in your project 3 Apr 2012
Skeleton Key Password Manager with Dropbox 2 Apr 2012
RC Boat motor finally mounted 2 Apr 2012
Promoting apps presentation slides 1 Apr 2012
How i just wasted a month on my latest app, and how you don't need to 26 Mar 2012
The Finishing Line 20 Mar 2012
Using Launchd to run a script every 5 mins on a Mac 20 Feb 2012
Generating AES256 keys from a password/passphrase in ObjC 20 Feb 2012
Indie iPhone app marketing, part 2 19 Feb 2012
My App Manifesto: Syncing + Dropbox + YAML = Awesome 15 Feb 2012
Indie iPhone App Marketing part 1 7 Feb 2012
Perspectives 2 Feb 2012
Accountability and Free Will 1 Feb 2012
Badassery 31 Jan 2012
Sacrifice 30 Jan 2012
Lead Yourself First 29 Jan 2012
How to ping a server in Objective-C / iPhone 26 Jan 2012
iOS Automated Builds with Xcode4 16 Jan 2012
Xcode 4 - Command line builds of iPhone apps 15 Jan 2012
Guest post by Jason McDougall 13 Jan 2012
Scouts, Games and Motivation 10 Jan 2012
2011 Re-cap 8 Jan 2012
Ruby script to increment a build number 4 Jan 2012
Turning 30? All ideas, no execution? 18 Dec 2011
CHDropboxSync - simply sync your iOS app's documents to Dropbox 14 Dec 2011
Deep-enumerating a directory on the iphone, getting file attributes as you go 10 Dec 2011
Getting a date without the time component in objective-c 6 Dec 2011
Memory management in Objective-C 4 Dec 2011
Starting small 29 Nov 2011
Dictionary Types Helper 29 Nov 2011
Observer Pattern in Objective-C 16 Nov 2011
Why you should give presentations 13 Nov 2011
How to get a programming or design job in Sydney 9 Nov 2011
Custom nav bar / toolbar backgrounds in iOS5 8 Nov 2011
Stuck 27 Oct 2011
Dead easy singletons in Obj-C 19 Oct 2011
JSON vs OCON (Objective-C Object Notation) 18 Oct 2011
In defence of Objective-C 16 Oct 2011
Update the MessagePack objective-c library to support packing 12 Oct 2011
Icons 11 Oct 2011
How to host a site on Amazon AWS S3, step-by-step 7 Oct 2011
Drawing a textured pattern over the default UINavigationBar 6 Oct 2011
Markdown Presentations 1 Oct 2011
More MegaComet testing: Ruling out keepalives 15 Sep 2011
MegaComet test #4 - This time with more kernel 14 Sep 2011
Building People 10 Sep 2011
Half way there: Getting MegaComet to 523,000 concurrent HTTP connections 5 Sep 2011
Making a progress bar in your iPhone UINavigationBar 22 Aug 2011
Hacker News Reader 20 Aug 2011
How to programmatically resize elements for landscape vs portrait in your iphone interface 16 Aug 2011
MegaComet testing part 2 3 Aug 2011
Australian Baby Colours 28 Jul 2011
Boat prop shaft 25 Jul 2011
Megacomet with 1 million queued messages 24 Jul 2011
Installed the strut and rudder 18 Jul 2011
Painted the inside of the boat 17 Jul 2011
Fuzzy iphone graphics when using an UIImageView set to UIViewContentModeCenter 13 Jul 2011
My 3 Data and Calls Usage 11 Jul 2011
Reading a line from the console in node.js 10 Jul 2011
Trim whitespaces on all text fields in a view controller 9 Jul 2011
Final finish 9 Jul 2011
MessagePack parser for Objective-C / iPhone 30 Jun 2011
Lacquering the starboard side 25 Jun 2011
What do do with EXC_ARM_DA_ALIGN on an iPhone app 23 Jun 2011
Lacquering the hull 23 Jun 2011
Staining the boat 22 Jun 2011
NSMutableSet with weak references in objective-c 20 Jun 2011
Iphone gesture recogniser that works for baby games 20 Jun 2011
Image manipulation pixel by pixel in objective C for the iphone 19 Jun 2011
Baby Allergy Tracker 12 Jun 2011
Power sanding the deck 10 Jun 2011
Planing the edge of the deck 2 Jun 2011
Figured out the deck 2 Jun 2011
Boat bulkheads 2 Jun 2011
Simulating iOS memory warnings 31 May 2011
Putting a UIButton in a UIToolbar 29 May 2011
How to allow closing a UIActionSheet by tapping outside it 29 May 2011
Finding the currently visible view in a UITabBarController 24 May 2011
Random Chef 17 May 2011
Centered UIButton in a navigation bar on the iphone 16 May 2011
Little Orchard 13 May 2011
Boat update 13 May 2011
How to get the current time in all time zones for the iphone / obj-c 12 May 2011
Design portfolio 10 May 2011
Tricks with grand central dispatch, such as objective-c's equivalent to setTimeout 9 May 2011
How to make an iphone view controller detect left or right swipes 5 May 2011
Centered section headers on a UITableView 5 May 2011
Christmas in may 4 May 2011
Finished trimming the boat (its floatable now!) and got some parts 29 Apr 2011
How to make a multiline label with dynamic text on the iphone and get the correct height 27 Apr 2011
Forcing an image size on the image in a table view cell on an iphone 20 Apr 2011
Git on the Mac 19 Apr 2011
Build a url query string in obj-c from a dictionary of params like jquery does 12 Apr 2011
Rendering a radial gradient on the iphone / objective-c 11 Apr 2011
Skinning the port side of the boat 8 Apr 2011
Skinning the side of the boat 5 Apr 2011
Sending a UDP broadcast packet in C / Objective-C 5 Apr 2011
How to talk to a unix socket / named pipe with python 4 Apr 2011
Skinning the bottom of the boat 31 Mar 2011
Service discovery using node.js and ssdp / universal plug n play 30 Mar 2011
Extremely simple python threading 29 Mar 2011
New rescue boat 26 Mar 2011
HttpContext vs HttpContextBase vs HttpContextWrapper 5 Nov 2010
Simple C# Wiki engine 30 Sep 2010
Simple way to throttle parts of your Asp.Net web app 29 Sep 2010
How to implement DES and Triple DES from scratch 4 Aug 2010
How to use sessions with Struts 2 30 Jul 2010
How to use Cookies in Struts 2 with ServletRequest and ServletResponse 30 Jul 2010
Using Quartz Scheduler in a Java web app (servlet) 27 Jul 2010
Javascript date picker that Doesn't Suck!(tm) 27 Jul 2010
Using Oracle XE with Hibernate 20 Jul 2010
A simple implementation of AES in Ruby from scratch 29 Jun 2010
Asp.Net Forms authentication to your own database 28 May 2010
AS2805 (like ISO8583) financial message parser in C# 7 May 2010
Ruby hex dumper 4 May 2010
Using Spring to manage Hibernate sessions in Struts2 (and other web frameworks) 13 Jan 2010
Emails in C#: Delivery and Read receipts / Attachments 12 Jan 2010
Using Java libraries in a C# app with IKVM 16 Dec 2009
Learning Java tutorial 27 Nov 2009
Using generic database providers with C# 17 Nov 2009
Scheduled task executable batch babysitter 29 Oct 2009
Working with query strings in Javascript using Prototype 30 Sep 2009
Still fighting with String.Format? 9 Sep 2009
How I'd build the next Google 24 Aug 2009
Getting IIS and Tomcat to play nicely with isapi_redirect 24 Aug 2009
Using the new ODP.Net to access Oracle from C# with simple deployment 11 Aug 2009
C# Cryptography - Encrypting a bunch of bytes 14 Jul 2009
Sorting enormous files using a C# external merge sort 10 Jul 2009
Reconciling/comparing huge data sets with C# 9 Jul 2009
Some keyboard-friendly DHTML tricks 10 Jun 2009
How to figure out what/who is connected to your SQL server 18 Mar 2009
Adding a column to a massive Sql server table 16 Mar 2009
Multithreading using Delegates in C# 10 Mar 2009
Using C# locks and threads to rip through a to-do list 6 Feb 2009
Using threads and lock in C# 3 Feb 2009
Setting a form name and onsubmit using form_for in rails 2 14 Jan 2009
Compressing using the 7Zip LZMA algorithm in C# beats GZipStream 14 Jan 2009
Bare minimum HTML that validates 22 Dec 2008
MS Sql Server 2005 locking 17 Dec 2008
Simple Comet demo for Ruby on Rails 19 Nov 2008
Geocoding part 2 - Plotting postcodes onto a map of Australia with C# 24 Oct 2008
Using evolutionary algorithms to make a walkthrough for the light-bot game with C# 20 Oct 2008
How to tell when memory leaks are about to kill your Asp.Net application 16 Oct 2008
C# version of isxdigit - is a character a hex digit? 15 Sep 2008
Geocoding part 1 - Getting the longitude and latitude of all australian postcodes from google maps 26 Aug 2008
Converting HSV to RGB colour using C# 14 Aug 2008
Opening a TCP connection in C# with a custom timeout 11 Aug 2008
Oracle Explorer - a very simple C# open source Toad alternative 31 Jul 2008
Linking DigitalMars' D with a C library (Mongrel's HTTP parser) 23 Jun 2008
Connecting to Oracle from C# / Winforms / Asp.net without tnsnames.ora 16 Jun 2008
A simple server: DigitalMars' D + Libev 6 Jun 2008
Travelling from Rails 1 to Rails 2 9 Apr 2008
Rocketsale 9 Apr 2008
Online Rostering System 9 Apr 2008
DanceInforma 9 Apr 2008
Client Analyser 9 Apr 2008
How good is this??? 16 Dec 2007
Using RSS or Atom to keep an eye on your company's heartbeat 10 Nov 2007
Easy Integrated Active Directory Security in ASP.Net 24 Oct 2007
First post 17 Oct 2007