Errors Installing the pg Gem When Using Heroku Postgres.app
I?ve been using the PostgreSQL Mac OS X app from Mattt Thompson and Heroku for quite some time now. ?If you don?t know what it is, it?s a drop in app bundle for the PostgreSQL database. ?There are many ways that work, this just happens to be really simple.
Ratings or No Ratings, It Could be Time for A Change to Apple App Store Rating System
The latest episode of the The Talk Show, Gruber discusses his distaste for apps that ask for a rating. I found the view a bit disappointing. He has a lot of influence and is both a user and an app developer.
Yep, paid apps are dead ? Tapity
Jeremy over at Tapity had a great post yesterday talking about the very same topic I blogged about; paid apps. Tapity makes much of its living on paid applications like Languages, Grades and Hours and they face the reality.
Digging the Gold from the Apple App Store
It’s really hard to make a living in the Apple App Store. It’s not impossible but neither is winning the lottery. People who aren’t developers don’t understand how hard software is to create and because of the Apple-influenced ecosystem, they expect software will be cheap or free.
Vesper Quickly Becoming a Valuable Case Study
When I first heard about Vesper, a note-taking application for $4.99 that only runs on the iPhone, I was a bit skeptical. ?Vesper comes from Q Branch, LLC and consists of some fairly high-profile people including: John Gruber, Brent Simmons and Dave Wiskus. ?My gut told me these guys are...
Feed Wrangler is My Go To RSS Reader Platform
July 1 is fast approaching and Google Reader is shutting down. ?Many people in the world use this service to read and sync their RSS feeds. ?When I heard it was shutting down I was a bit annoyed but not surprised, but today I am anxious for it to shut...
Getting Started Resources for Mac and iOS Developers
Are you just getting started with Mac or iOS development? ?Maybe just trying to improve what you know? ?Here is a great resource from Dave Mark. ?Everything is covered including blogs, conferences, forums and official Apple documentation.
Vesper ? The First App for iOS 7
I’ve been spending a fair amount of time with Xcode 5 and iOS 7 lately. ?I can’t mention specifics, but I can say it’s a direction I am very happy to see. ?There are a lot of good things happening in there. Charles Perry points out how Vesper, the note...