My latest app has been approved and is now available for sale.  Pro vs. Con is an app to help you make informed (or fun) decisions.  The app is fun to use and the interface, designed by Baltimore local John Reichenberg, models an old boxing/wrestling poster.  Enter your question, then add arguments either for it (Pro) or against it (Con).  Click the review button and you get a thumb vote of whether you should proceed or not.  Try it...

Here’s a few useful shortcuts and tricks that I’ve found for using Xcode 4. I thought they would be useful to share with you. If you have any that I missed, feel free to share them in the comments! Also, don’t miss my tips on using Accessorizer for other quick shortcuts for development. Switch Between Header and Implementation File My favorite is the three-finger swipe up or down to switch between header (.h) and...

Idea Swarm has announced a new version of their popular tool for iOS developers, App Viz 2. The popular App Viz products give you insight into your iOS app sales on the iOS and Mac App Stores. It provides a number of charts and graphs that help you get an idea of how your apps are performing in the app store. Pros: Downloads reviews Stores In App Purchases under the relative app name rather than a separate item Stacked graphs of App...

  I’ve just received some exciting news. Ray Wenderlich and Rod Strougo, authors of the upcoming book Learning Cocos2D: A Hands-On Guide to Building iOS Games with Cocos2D, Box2D, and Chipmunk, will be hosting a 2-day workshop titled Cocos2D via Mini Games. If you’ve attended one of our iOS 101 workshops, you know how much information and knowledge Ray shares with you during one of his workshops. You definitely get your...

One of the hardest parts of development for me is staring at a blank page. Sometimes I dive right into code and it’s always a mistake because having a design doc or a flow chart helps you organize your thoughts and ideas and also provides a workflow for you to focus with. You can say, “ok, today I’m going to work on this page” versus staring at your code and trying to figure out what to do next. The tool I’m...

In my last MapKit post, I told you how to create custom polygon overlays for your maps.  Now we are going to add to that project and create custom Parking lot icons to place over our polygon shapes so people know what they are. If you want to follow along, make sure you download the project file from that tutorial first: Download here. The first thing we’ll do is create a new class that conforms to the MKAnnotation protocol.  To do...

In this series, Tools For Devs, I’m going to highlight a few tools that have made my life easier as a developer. The first tool I want to highlight is one that I can’t believe I went without for so long. It’s called Accessorizer and if you haven’t seen it before or you have but haven’t bought it yet, pay attention to this post. As you may know, Ray Wenderlich and I have hosted a few iOS Programming 101...