Factotum is now Two Bit Labs
I’ve joined forces with my good friend and colleague Todd Huss to form Two Bit Labs, and to keep things manageable I’ve migrated all of my blog posts over to our new site. If you followed the old feed, it will redirect here, so you should continue to get updates on the new blog without […]
Printable templates for paper and pencil mobile wireframing
Printable templates for paper and pencil mobile wireframing
Behavior Driven Development what?
Like many, I was fuzzy on BDD or Behavior Driven Development until I started working with BDD tools like Cucumber, JBehave, and Jasmine. However, BDD isn’t a tool. It’s a design approach you can use with your existing testing tools or by adding in additional tools. BDD refers to one way of doing TDD or […]
Verbally hits the app store with a bang
After a lot of hard work on Chris’ part it’s great to see the high ratings, praise on the web, and crazy adoption of Verbally, an assistive speech solution for the iPad. Check it out at verballyapp.com or in the app store.
iKu 1.2: see who’s following you
I’m happy to announce that iKu 1.2 was released to the app store today. This update includes some performance enhancements and improvements to the experience of following other authors. The two most frequent questions we get from iKu authors are “How do I stop following someone” and “How can I see who’s following me”. Before […]
Verbally in the iPad App Store
For the past few months I’ve been working with Intuary on a new iPad app aimed at people who’ve lost the ability to speak. Verbally went live last week and had a spectacular first couple of weeks, with nearly 4,000 downloads and counting. It’s in the top-10 free medical apps in several countries (including the […]
Some great UIColor resources
I’ve recently come across some nice resources for working with UIColors. Developer Color Picker Developer Color Picker is a color picker built for, you guessed it, Objective-C developers. Just install it in ~/Library/ColorPickers and it will appear in any application when you pull up the color picker. You can switch between RGB and HSB sliders […]
iKu hits 1000
This week, iKu was downloaded for the 1000th time from the app store. It’s been exciting to be a part of so many people’s creative life, and I look forward to seeing the community continue to grow. Here are a few stats on usage so far. iKu by the numbers iKu has been downloaded 1,032 […]
Mocking singletons with OCMock
Although Graham Lee might not approve, I occasionally use the singleton pattern, particularly for managing access to my data models. Singletons in Cocoa are accessed using the following convention: static UserModelManager *sharedManager = nil; +(UserModelManager *)sharedManager { if (sharedManager == nil) { sharedManager = [[super allocWithZone:NULL] init]; […]