Author: jtrainer
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Objective-C and Cocoa Articles
Just sharing some great essays on the nitty gritty of Cocoa and Objective-C that have all popped up in the last few days. A new episode in Wil Shipley’s Pimp My Code series where he refactors a reader’s class in his own special style. Ridiculous Fish takes a look into the underpinnings and efficiencies of…
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Xcode Secrets Uncovered?
One of the most confusing things I’ve experienced in my short time developing software for the Mac is managing projects and their build and compile settings in Apple’s free development IDE, Xcode. Xcode is built on top of the cross-platform, open- source compiler gcc. Since gcc is a command-line tool, Xcode needs to handle all…
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Startup School and Wiki
These resources made the blog rounds a while back, but I just now got the chance to really look into it. Startup School has a bunch of great presentations on starting a business in both pdf and audio formats. There is everything from general advice through finance advice. The related website, Startup Wiki is just…
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Corporate Army Or One-Person Business
Do you use “we” or “me” when speaking for your MicroISV or one-person small business? Is it better to act as if you are bigger than just one person? Or, is the fact that you are one person actually a distinct business advantage? Yaro Starak discusses his thoughts on which way to go on his…
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Customer Support Woes
Why is it that some companies just don’t get it? Twice in the past couple of months I’ve experienced absolutely terrible service from large companies in completely different industries. My wife and I recently cashed in a few whole life insurance plans. The company my wife’s plan was with simply required one phone call and…
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Marketing in Forums
Wil Shipley recently went on a rant about “Sock Puppet Marketing”. Apparently, he has a “competitor” on the Windows platform that is marketing his software in forums that discuss Delicious Library. This was one of my concerns with posting to forums and blogs with an obvious intent to marketing a product. This is essentially spam.
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Generating Forum Noise
Gianfranco Berardi brings up some interesting thoughts on posting in forums. At one point I realized that I really shouldn’t talk like I knew what I was saying when I didn’t really know about the topic… Which was good because I didn’t spend so much time on the forums and was able to direct my…
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10 Questions for Small Business Owners
Rajesh Setty [Life Beyond Code] has written up a nice concise list of 10 Questions to ask yourself when you are small. …it’s not always the right answers that help – it’s asking the right questions. Article found via MicroISV
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Announcement: Bullfrog Released
Cross Posted on Make Mac Games After a ton of work over the past month designing and programming my first Mac game, it is finally finished. All the final artwork and animation is complete. All known bugs have been fixed. The final executable binary has been packaged and zipped. Bullfrog has been officially entered into…
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A Peek into a Developer’s Workshop
Ian Jones has been kind enough to share the details of his development workflow and toolset used to develop and support Case Detective for Fog Bugz. It’s a pretty good overview of what it takes to run a MicroISV that produces a cross platform application.