• So while I’m still against building my own iPhone App (too risky with Apple denying good apps), I am a big user of iPhone apps. But I am frustrated with the iTunes interface for finding them. So I built my own. You can see my iPhone Apps directory over at MacMost. I still have some [...]

  • Here’s a blog post by Dave Winer. The first paragraph says it all. So I’m not the only one who sees iPhone App development as too risky. In fact, I often thought that the ideal first App for me to develop would be a copy of the Urinal Game. It is a simple App, developed originally [...]

  • The idea of doing work for “clients” predates my career as a programmer. I was doing desktop publishing work for clients back in college. I wasn’t necessarily in business, I was just a poor college student always on the lookout for some cash. So when I quit my job and started working for myself back in [...]

  • Back when Steve Jobs announced that 3rd parties would be allowed to make iPhone Apps, I planned to be right onboard. I brushed up on Objective C and Xcode, and waited to be accepted into the iPhone developer program. A glitch prevented me from getting on to the program until much later than I expected, [...]

  • So I am really glad I went to the New Media Expo this year. It was my third year at the show, so I was worried that there wasn’t much more to accomplish. I loved the keynotes, especially the first one by Gary Vaynerchuk , from Wine Library TV. His enthusiasm is contagious. He was pretty [...]