In his response to the Section 3.3.1 changes, Steve Jobs makes a very valid point that has been largely glossed over by the Apple vs Adobe narrative that is playing out on the web right now: We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders…
A few interesting things have happened this past week that should remind us all of the perils of building your business on top of someone else’s platform: Fred Wilson’s recent post describing the future of the Twitter platform has left developers wondering if Twitter is going to integrate certain core features (URL shorteners, photo sharing…
Note: this is just my personal list of apps I would actually be willing to pay for if someone built them. Some of these ideas may already exist in some form on the iPhone, but I think they would work much better with the iPad’s large touchscreen. A recipe manager I do a lot of…
I ran into this problem recently and found that the Django documentation wasn’t exactly clear on how to solve it, so I’ve provided an example in case anyone else needs to do the same thing. My goal was to add an extra form field to one of my model objects that represented a property which…
Here’s a little tip for anyone that wants to add a persistent ad banner above the UITabBar to their tab navigation based iPhone app. I’ve seen a few apps do this so I was fairly surprised when a quick search of Google and StackOverflow turned up absolutely nothing. After all, it seems like it would…
My previous post on the Flash controversy brought up some interesting comments that I thought warranted further discussion. A number of bloggers have shared their opinions as well. Incidentally, this conversation has been going on for months on the web, the iPad announcement just seems to have reignited it. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch posted: We…
Having done several years of Flash development and having worked with many Flash developers, the recent controversy between Apple and Adobe over Flash on the iPad is very amusing to me. First, there are a few arguments that I want to address directly: But Flash is the only way to deploy a consistent cross platform…
