I wanted to compile a quick list of excellent blogs for programmers. Not all will apply to every developer, but spending a few minutes a day on Google Reader can give you great insight into different technologies and even hone your skills on the tools you use on a daily basis. Most of us have those few minutes to spare in a day, and I think a good blog read will benefit most developers more than seeing the latest lolcat pic or random video on YouTube. Below are the recommended blogs.
There are a lot of misconceptions about what REST or Representational State Transfer is. Many people see an example of a REST API and merely think of it as a standard for making URLs to perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations against a web server.
At work, I have more and more been transitioning to using a Mac. MonoTouch has fueled this, and I hate to say it, but I am starting to like Mac hardware. I have come accustomed to the standard Mac mouse, as well as the Macbook Air touchpad. PCs are great, I love Visual Studio and I love C#, but there is something to be said about what Apple is doing lately.
These days, SQL (structured query language) has been the core mechanism for storing and accessing data within any application. It has many advantages, such as: reliability, scalability, fast lookup, and the ability to generate any type of report you can think of. Conventional database systems have their disadvantages as well, which is where NOSQL-based systems have surfaced to fill in the gaps.
For my next exploration of the MVC design pattern, I wanted to convert my “Hubble Space Telescope” application from a desktop WPF app to Windows Phone 7. This can help demonstrate the flexibility MVC provides with such a scenario.
So for this part of the series, I wanted to explore MVC by writing a sample application that reuses code between an iPhone app and a WPF windows application. The goal here is to lessen the amount of code required to be written on the iPhone, because what developer wants to use a Mac, right? But this should also cut down development time, too, and should make it easier to port the same app to Windows Phones or other platforms.
For those of you who have not heard of it, the Joel Test is a quick checklist that will help assess the practices of your software development team.
In this post, I’m going to dive into the inner workings of Apple’s UIKit for iPhone, and see how they handle the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern.
Many of you may have heard rumors of the strict app submission process by Apple, but I personally did not believe it to be true. In submitting the Omniprise iPhone App, we had to resubmit binaries three times until we got it right. On top of that, we started the submission process during what seemed to be a busy time—we had to wait 1-2 weeks between submissions. This may have been due to the Thanksgiving break, or could also have been due to it being our first App.
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In this series, I plan to divulge my experiences in developing for Apple devices such as the iPhone and iPad. We’ve recently released the official Omniprise app on the App Store, so I have plenty to talk about regarding Apple’s software design concepts and development process.
