Helping Your Clients Build an Effective Mobile Strategy
It can be a challenge convincing clients to add new strategies to their existing Web presence. In a perfect world, a client would simply say, “You’re the expert. You know what’s best. Do whatever needs to be done to make it happen!” But, unfortunately, it just doesn’t work like that. Granted, we shouldn’t expect smart business managers to implement every new thing just because we tell them it’s a good idea. That wouldn’t be cost effective. But what if you know in your gut that the future of a client’s business may be at stake? With Google executives saying things...
read moreReview of Publishing with iBooks Author .
The recent iBooks Authoring tool released by Apple has given amateur book writers and enthusiasts a direct enablement to self-publish their own interactive books to Apple’s bookstore, in a similar way that developers have been given access to the app-store. Nellie McKesson delivers soon after the iBooks Authoring release with a handy book that guides the user through the basics of laying out the structure of the book. The author does well in articulating the various scenarios that may affect layout of the book, such as the orientation position of the iPad and with a...
read moreUpgrading to XCode 4.3 and solving the /Developer issue
With the upgrade to XCode 4.3, one of the significant changes is that the /Developer folder is gone and instead bundled within the /Applications/XCode.app/ content bundle. One thing that you have to remember is that for the command-line tools (of which now you should be downloading individually within the Apple Developer Site) is that you have to switch those command lines to use your new path, rather than the old Developer path. An excellent article from UseYourLoaf, outlines what needs to be done. For example I often used the agvtool to manage build version...
read moreReview of iOS 5 Programming Cookbook
The follow on from iOS 4 Cookbook, which I thoroughly enjoyed by Vandad Nahavandipoor, is the opposite of what you might find being the more concise O’Reilly books on specific iOS topics, that I normally review. Depending on how your mind operates, this book may be an excellent first book, otherwise it makes an even greater secondary reference book. It is certainly not concise, but it doesn’t have the problem that normal iOS books have of going through chapter by chapter skimming certain topics, this one has it all. It goes through the normal...
read moreReview of Essential iOS Build and Release
Essential iOS Build and Release by Ron Roche is another of those ‘micro-books’, a concise book with a scope solely focused on how to build for testing and publishing your iOS App, whether it’s AdHoc, App Store or through Enterprise distributions. It takes you through the over-complex routes that would get a developer to get the App to have the appropriate provisioning profiles and certificates. It’s standard information that you would probably find in almost any other iOS book, but the conciseness of this book makes it handy when you don’t want to go through...
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