Archive for the 'Coding' Category

App Store Economics, Part 1

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of the world. At least, of the one some of us kept affection for. At the very least, of the one we’ve got used to. Anyway. The big bad crisis of good old capitalism is here and now. It’s time to reassess our work and our pay, time to move the goalposts around a bit while panic keeps others so busy that they won’t notice.

What about App Store? Is it a market vulnerable enough to drive coders out of business? Is it even a kind of market we fully understand?
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iPhone Crash Logs

Sometimes programs crash. This annoys users and developers alike. Users are frustrated because they cannot use crashing software, developers are frustrated because they have to hunt bugs instead of doing something creative and rewarding. How do we communicate if an iPhone application crashes? Read more »

Lines update

At long last I have good news. Lines got a minor update which, I confess, is overdue. I managed to fix a couple of obscure bugs that bothered a lot of people but manifested themselves only now and then. It’s now a universal binary too. And it requires Tiger.
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