If you had asked me at this time last year how I felt about the AppStore and developing for the iPhone platform I would have told you about what a great experience it is. Apple has developed a wonderful software development platform that makes it easy for developers to build great looking, functional applications. Unfortunately […]
Archive for July, 2009
SGHotKeysLib - A Modern Fork Of PTHotKeysLib
One of the projects going on in the Second Gear labs is upgrading both Today and Check Off to run as native 64 bit applications. This involves a lot of rewiring of numbers to use the modern NSInteger/NSUInteger, removal of deprecated and removed method calls and hoping that your dependent libraries are updated as well. […]
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Fix My App: Sirius XM Satellite Radio
Following up on last week’s post on my disdain for the tab bar controller, I was inspired to provide a few examples of how I would rework some existing applications to remove the tab bar and improve the user experience. I use each of the applications I am planning to highlight on a daily basis. […]
Die You Damn, Dirty Tab Bar
The iPhone SDK makes it fairly simple to build powerful applications that can be deployed to millions of phones. Actually writing the code for the application isn’t the hard part most of the time, especially if you aren’t straying too far off of the default widget library. Where I found myself having the most issues […]
Track my workday via @secondgear
Brent Simmons, Internet superstar and developer of NetNewsWire, recently started tweeting his workday. Brent describes it as coding as a performance. It’s a fairly good idea, so I’ve decided to shamelessly rip off the idea and use the Second Gear Twitter account to document what exactly is being worked on here in the lab. If […]
Hi. I'm Justin Williams and this is my weblog. I am the crew chief of Second Gear, a purveyor of fine Macintosh and iPhone software.
You can learn more about me or view my résumé
In addition to this site I am frequently posting thoughts on Twitter, photos on Flickr and everything else to Tumblr.
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