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It’s hard to believe, but after 10 years at Amazon AWS and even more at Heroku, I’ve moved the entire hawkimedia.com infrastructure to Cloudflare: website, blog, everything!

If you opened an old Xcode project in Xcode 11 and wondered where all your simulator versions before iOS 13 went, you may need to tweak the deployment target of your target.

Since upgrading my iMac to macOS Mojave 10.14.4 several months ago, I have found the system frozen every morning, with no smoking guns.

As Apple promised in September, it started sending out emails to developers warning that their apps would be removed from sale on the App Store unless updated.

We’ve got an update in the works to our popular app OuttaMyWay!

Recently a user’s email password was cracked.

I am at a loss to explain it, but I suppose it was inevitable.

Lockbox v3 is now available, sporting a vastly more robust yet less complex API for storing data into and retrieving data from the iOS keychain.

An update is available (as of yesterday) for FilterFresh, our filter maintenance and reminder app for iOS.This update has the usual minor bug fixes and improvements, of course.

If you subscribe to this blog, you received notice of a new post, cleverly titled “test post”.

Nearly two years in the making, OuttaMyWay v3 is finally available today!

Nearly 2 years in the making, OuttaMyWay!

Thank G-d for RAID!

I recently set out to re-write one of my apps.

A few weeks ago we ran a promotion in support of National First Responders Appreciation Day.

Saturday, September 27th is National First Responders Appreciation day in the United States, a day set aside to recognize, remember, and thank all the brave men and women who daily put their lives on the line (or who have given their lives in so doing) to…

This week, with as much media “blitz” as an indie shop can muster, we announced our latest app, FilterFresh, along with our completely revamped website.

A new project (nearly ready to release; stay tuned) required some custom UI.

About a month ago I wrote about the recurring but ever-solvable problem of loading images in the background without losing performance while say, scrolling a table view.

There is no shortage of common engineering problems that have been solved over and over again, or just once.

Goodbye ‘13, Hello ‘14!

The iOS UIPickerView is one SDK component that leaves little to the developer for customization.

I debated about what to write about today, especially in the wake of yesterday’s WWDC ticket frenzy, the subsequent online screaming about it, and everything else.

It is very common practice that an object like a view controller is the delgate (and perhaps datasource) for another encapsulated or included object, such as a table view.

How do you know if your code works?

What is the cost of expedience?

One of the features of my new day job is that the development environment is full-on Agile.

If you are an Apple Developer, you have no doubt been bombarded lately with reminders that Apple is shutting down its developer portal for Christmas beginning today Friday, December 21st, through next Friday, December 28th.

No, that’s not a new and magical API in the title.

I made a stupid mistake recently, which cost me more than a few hours of time to figure out.

In a previous post I wrote up some discoveries I had made about using geofencing – region monitoring in iOS parlance – based on some testing I had done.

In my last post about dynamic pattern images , I showed how to create images on the fly for use as background pattern images.

The image handling capabilities available in iOS (and OS X for that matter) are pretty spectacular.

A slight departure from the thing we all love doing (writing code) to a thing some of us may have to spend time on (system administration).

This is an old and common thing to do in an iOS app.

I would hope this is obvious to anyone who’s been around the iOS eco-system during an iOS beta period: Make sure your apps will continue to work with the new release!

Two things happened recently that have each, in their own way, de-railed me to some extent.

Since April I’ve delivered a surprising number of apps to the App Store, and I thought I’d give a brief summary of those projects and what made (or makes) them interesting.

Recently I was interviewed by Lee Shen Han for his blog Beginning iOS Development.

It turns out that building multiple targets from one source code base is both easy and hard, both simple and complex.

Several months ago I wrote about some tricks I was using to build many targets from one code base.

The title of this article may be overstating my expertise with git slightly, but that’s how I feel having successfully tackled what is, I think, a fairly non-trivial task with git: managing changes across multiple branches and multiple remotes using a sin…

It seems like there has been a lot in the “developer” news lately about the secure storage of user data in iOS apps, as well as related topics around securely replacing the venerable but now deprecated device unique identifier, or UDID.

Sometimes there is no time to focus on just one or two things.

Location Services are one of the most interesting capabilities available in iOS.

It is a common pattern for an app to do something with data that is not local.

For the newcomer to iOS development, “animation” may seem like a daunting proposition.

In my day job, we have need to interface with an Oracle database, from ruby.

In my last post, Something Old or Something New?

What’s my “Next Great App” going to be?