A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. I fixed a bunch of bugs in the last two installments, with one major exception: Landscape is hard to read. My …
This Old App: Another Bug, Another Day
One of the biggest hazards of indie developers is getting full of themselves. You'll do things that you think are right or you found on StackOverflow from some other indie developer the looks like good code. Then someone comes along and tells you otherwise. The story so far: A few months ago, Apple removed my app …
This Old App: There is Always One More Bug
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. Last time, I got the app working. It calculated intervals and used those for bigger measurements. I loaded the app on …
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This Old App: Communicating with Container Views
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. In the last episode, I got the table to use multiple cells and the app to total those cells …
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This Old App:Use Multiple Custom Cells
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. In the last installment, I got the custom table view talking with the root view. This time I’m adding multiple cells to …
5 Takeaways From the WWDC Keynote You Won’t Hear From the Press
For the last two years I keep saying the same thing about the Keynote: This is for the consumers and press, not the developers that signed an NDA. Much of what was said was hardly earth shattering or exciting for developers. Far more hardware that I would have expected, much of it shipping now. There …
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This Old App: Container Views and Table Cell Actions
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. In my last installment I added a custom table view cell. In this installment, I’ll get the root view …
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This Old App: Custom Table View Cells
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. In the last installment, I connected the model to the controller and was shocked to find they actually worked on the first …
Things to Watch for at WWDC 2017
Every year there are several traditions that happen around early June. Someone will say Apple is doomed. Someone else will say Apple didn't make any new innovations, because they didn't announce any new hardware. Both are a misreading of another June tradition. In early to mid June is Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference, which is …
This Old App: Hooking up the Model
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. In the last installment, I hooked up my picker view interface to my app, and built the first round …
