You changed our lifes forever…
]]>I think it would be great have a newsletter every 2 weeks pointing to great resources in the web (like articles, tutorials, libraries, etc…) and apps of Swiss devs.
You can subscribe using the the form in the sidebar.
]]>I’m quite sure, quoting Barney Stinson of HIMYM, “It’s gonna be legend… wait for it… DARY!”. We’re doing a great job, contacting sponsors, looking for the right place to host the event (there’re a lot of good places out there, but we need one with a good internet connection, that can stay open 24h/24h, with hotels in the area, etc…), looking for partners, etc…
If you still don’t know what BeMyApp is, please visit the website (the french version is better).
I’ll keep you updated so, stay tuned! ;)
]]>The goal is offer to them, but even useful to expert developers as reminder, a good list of resources to visit for some specific topics (such as: graphics, game development, library, tutorial, etc…).
The first post will be a collection of utilities and small apps useful when developing with iOS and XCode. Let’s start!
GitHub
Github is a mac client that gives you the opportunity to use the famous versioning social platform
with a native client, for free!
Download
Price: free
Versions
Versions is a nice and competitive SVN client. The GUI is really clear and clean and an advanced design
gives to the user everything with few clicks.
Download
Price: 39€
Cornerstone
Cornerstone is one of the best Subversion client for Mac. Try it if you use SVN.
Download
Price: 59$
Pixelstik
PixelStick is a tool for measuring distances, angles and colors on the screen.
Download
Price: free
xScope
xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts.
Download
Price: 30$
Zwoptex
Zwoptex is a powerful sprite packager tool, if you want develop a game, you should try it!
Download
Price: 15$
TexturePacker
A powerful sprite and texture packager tool. A must-have if you work with Cocos2D!
Download
Price: 19€
Hues
A fast, lightweight color picker app allows you to grab the color of any pixel on your screen.
Download
Price: 2.99$
icon-express
Icons Express is the little brother to Icons 3.0. Icons Express comes with all of the essential features you would need to generate and preview iOS, Android and custom sized Icons.
Download
Price: free
Opacity
Opacity is an easy to use program for drawing graphics for the screen. It’s great for making resolution independent images and icons for applications and the web.
Download
Price: 39.99$
Pixelmator
Shame on you if you don’t know Pixelmator, it’s everything I can say ;)
Download
Price: 23.99 euro
Physicseditor
Edit your physics shapes with ease
Download
Price: 19 dollari
Balsamiq
A great tool to create mockups. If you work with clients it’s a must-have!
Download
Price: 79 dollari
Templates for Photoshop and Illustrator
http://www.teehanlax.com/downloads/
iCopy
Multi copy and paste. Great tool when using XCode.
Download
Price: 0.99$
clips
Clips is a time machine for your clipboard - it remembers everything you copy/paste so you never lose a thing!
Download
Price: 9.99$
jumpcut
Multi copy and paste. Open source and free.
Download
Price: free
Snippet
Do you reuse the same code in all your apps? Simply create a snippet, tag it and save in this amazing app to simply find it when you need it.
Download
Price: 12.99$
dash
Snippet manager
Download
Price: free
REG EXP
website to help you to create a regexp: txt2re.com
website to help you to test a regexp: rexv.org
Accessorizer
Accessorizer is Xcode’s No.1 companion and a huge time-saver. With more than 28 code generation actions featuring flexible coding styles, Accessorizer enables you to develop and deliver your iOS and Mac OS X applications much faster and with fewer mistakes.
Download
Price 2.99 euro
Charles
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).
Download
Price: 50$
navicat-premium-essentials
Navicat Premium Essentials is is a multi-connections Database Administration tool allowing you to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Oracle and PostgreSQL databases simultaneously within a single application, making database administration to multiple kinds of database so easy.
Download
Price: 49.99$
Doxygen
Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and to some extent D.
Download
Price: free
Source: forum of devapp.it
]]>I have to say that the migration was really quick and I did it in less than 2 hours (not too much work). So, if you need a powerful tool to generate a blog, without use a database and CRMs like Joomla or Wordpress, check out Octopress!
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You changed our lifes forever…
]]>The project, this project, started more than 1 year ago and I think the idea was good, but the time was not enough and moving abroad did not help. So, what’s the future of the iPhone Developer Group? At the moment I’m not sure about it, what is sure is that after 1 year in London, I’ll be back in Switzerland in few months looking for a new experience, maybe as independent, maybe as Senior developer somewhere. Unfortunately the italian side of Switzerland hasn’t an attractive market, I should definitely pass the Gotthard to have a better market, let’s see, but this post is not about me, but about the group.
My come back will, for sure, help me to improve this website and to (finally) make this group useful and active. At the moment, the iPhone Dev Group doesn’t exist outside the website and the goal is to create something similar to all Swiss JUGs, with a small fee, an active community and, not less important, a registered association with a president, vice-president and secretary. Here in London I found a great community, really active, with valid elements and a structure that works, of course I cannot think to create something similar, only London City have a population that is the double of the Switzerland and a lot of agencies working on mobile and web.
I’m following the updates of Appsterdam.rs as well and, again, the project of Mike Lee is too big to be copied. If you’re not following this project, please do it and support it, it deserves that! So, what’s the conclusion? It’s quite simple: if you can support this project, please do it. I hope one day it’ll be possibile to organize workshops or meetups all around the Swiss territory or even conferences. Support this project will be very simple at the moment: drop me an e-mail and confirm your support to the group, I’ll add a special member page with a list of names and companies currently supporting the project. The address is webmaster [at] iphonedevgroup [dot] ch.
]]>Everybody understand that Adobe has not agreed with the new 3.3.1 section, but Apple can do everything with its products and SDKs. The war between Adobe and Apple is really old and I found an interesting article about it, called Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself. I’ll quote some part from this article that give an idea about this war and why is arrived at this point: ZDNet, 2001:
Creative professionals will “be able to edit their video in Premiere, edit their images in Photoshop and be able to create DVDs in a very creative way”, Chizen said. But they may not be able to do that on a Mac with an Adobe product. Making a Mac DVD product is “something we’re still evaluating”, Chizen said.
A slice from 2002:
Adobe Acrobat 4.x and 5.0 currently do not offer native support for Apple’s new OS X operating system. Adobe After Effects 5.0 currently does not offer native support for Apple’s new OS X operating system. After Effects 5.0 is supported in OS X classic mode Adobe FrameMaker 6.0, FrameMaker+SGML 6.0 and FrameViewer 6.0 currently do not offer native support for Apple’s new OSX operating system Adobe GoLive currently does not offer native support for Apple’s new OS X operating system Adobe Premiere currently does not offer native support for Apple’s new OS X operating system. Premiere 6.0 also will not work in OS X in classic mode Adobe currently does not offer native support for Adobe Photoshop Elements for the OS X operating system Adobe Photoshop currently does not offer native support for Apple’s new OS X operating system Adobe LiveMotion currently does not offer native support for Apple’s new OS X operating system
CNet, 2004:
• Adobe dropping support for several Mac products, most recently its FrameMaker publishing software and most notably its Premiere video editing application, whose demise as a Mac application was attributed to strong competition from Apple’s Final Cut programs. • Several new Adobe products have been introduced in Windows-only versions. In the case of Atmosphere, a new 3D animation application, the decision to skip the Mac was attributed to a small pool of potential customers. In the case of Photoshop Album, a light-duty consumer photo application, a similar application was already built into OS X. With its Encore DVD-authoring package, Adobe again pointed to competition from an Apple video application. • Adobe caused a stir among Apple devotees last year by republishing test results that showed certain Adobe applications running faster on Windows PCs than on Macs. • Adobe, which could once be relied upon to turn up at any Apple gathering, has skipped several Macworld events in recent years.
John Nack 2006:
John Nack has answered the burning question of OS X Adobe app users everywhere on his blog yesterday: when will we see native Intel OS X versions for all the shiny new Macs Apple is rolling out this year? Unfortunately, the response is less than ideal. In fact, I think it belies something fishy is up either with Adobe, Apple or both. John Nack’s answer is basically that they have no plans to update the current CS2 or Studio 8 suites to run natively on Intel OS X, which means anyone buying a new Intel Mac this year will have to deal with running these apps in the Rosetta emulation layer. While it seems like this might be at least workable for some users, it is by no means ideal. The only way to get an Intel version of either suite, as of Adobe’s current plans, is to purchase a new/upgrade suite sometime in 20
It’s totally clear that Adobe has underrated the potential of Mac OS X and this politic has really annoyed Apple that now it’s now trying to kill the most important product of Adobe: Flash. The big problem is that section 3.3.1 is not only denying every Flash developer to export apps for iPhone, but even any other project that generate code for iPhone/iPad like Unity3D. Apple could be wrong, but nobody can tells them that this new move is unfair, because Adobe has followed the same politic against Apple for many years, ignoring avery request by Apple and the result is simple: boomerang effect! You can’t ignore people and after they became a market power, be shocked if they give you back the same politic that you’ve used for more than 10 years against them.
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I can imagine you already have an iPad, what do you think about it?
Yes. I have one since monday 5.April (thanks to Adrian from
akosma!).
I’m pretty excited about it. In my opinion: what we have here is
just the top of the iceberg.
The iPad as hardware allows users to have a very powerfull platform
for applications and solutions.
And: never forget that the current iPad model is a first generation
device.
Projects on iPad?
I think in the next couple of weeks i can release a tiny
transport-like iPad app for Zürich and region.
And if it’s successfull I will extend it. :)
Apple has finally released the iPhone OS 4 to developers, after a great event, what do you think about it? First Impressions.
After the keynote I was thinking that this could be the death blow
for other devices.
If all functions will be accepted from the public and if they are
running smoothly, bye bye Android, bye bye Symbian/Maemo.
iPhone OS 4 include multitasking, how this new feature can change the App World? And, what do you think about future apps using multitasking?
If you ask me, multitasking is heavy overrated. Background
processes are sometimes useful, but this will not allow to finally
write the “super-killer-app”.
The standard consumer will focus more on longer battery time than
on some basic alarm / geo-tracking background daemons.
You are a young developer, in a big market, heading one of the leading company (Include7) based in Switzerland that develops mobile apps, how is the market in Switzerland?
Booming and won’t stop. :)
Last, what do you think about the future of Apple devices (iPad, iPhone, iTouch, etc…) in Swiss Market?
Swiss people have a great heart for Apple products. The iPhone/iPod
wave is also the main cause, that a lot of people buy more Apple’s
computers. Nice OS, nice design and they are just working well.
Really thanks to Jonas Schnelli from
Include7 for the time dedicated to
answer to those questions.
Interview with Adrian Kosmaczewski from iPhoneDevSuisse on Vimeo.
]]>Data Collection: Mac OS X v10.6.3 can collect diagnostic and usage information from your Mac and send it to Apple for analysis automatically. The information is only collected with your explicit consent, and is submitted anonymously to Apple. For more details, see this article.
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