As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been spending the past few weeks working on a new iOS application called Elements. Elements shipped this week and its success has far exceeded my meager expectations. Elements was built to scratch a small itch I had. For the past four years I have been writing […]
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Back to the Phone
A year ago, I wrote I no longer enjoy building software for the iPhone because of the bureaucracy and infrastructure that surrounds it. I can build great software for the Mac without the headaches and bullshit of dealing directly with Cupertino and their AppStore. Shortly after that post, I announced that I had sold both […]
From iPhone to Android
tl;dr Summary I’m a Mac and iPhone developer and I’ve just spent the past week using a Google Nexus One as my primary cell phone rather than an iPhone as I have for the past three years. I wanted to do this to become more acquainted with what Google has to offer since my only […]
NSConference 2010
It’s fairly rare that I leave my home base in southern Indiana, but I have just returned from a six hour road trip down to Atlanta for the first ever stateside version of NSConference. NSConference is put on by the team behind the Mac Developer Network. It wasn’t until a few weeks ago that I […]
PR Isn’t Just A Press Release
It’s rare that I ever agree with anything Michael Arrington says, but his latest post today resonated with me. Arrington went off about getting dozens of emails a day from PRMac, the press release distribution service used by many Mac developers. PRMac works by distributing your press release off to hundreds of its partner sites […]
Blogging Is Back
I have been thinking a lot about my online presence over the past few weeks. I am always quick to jump on board and try the latest beta services and have embraced quite a few longterm including Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. When I saw the demise of tr.im and the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook, […]
Done Point Oh
Congratulations to Jamie Montgomerie for finally getting his beautiful book reader Eucalyptus finally accepted on the AppStore. The rejections from Apple based on searchable content were laughable at best and I’m glad to see that (once again) after a bit of bad PR, Apple relents on a bad practice. Early reviews of the user experience […]
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
I was out to dinner the other night celebrating the college graduation of a good friend. Graduation season is always interesting to me, partially because I usually still know someone graduating and because most everyone seems to have enjoyed their college time far more than I ever did. It’s been three years since I graduated […]
Twitter & Tumblr have made me a shitty writer
In the past year or so I can’t help but feel that my writing quality and consistency has fallen off steeper than the Sirius-XM stock. I’ve been on Twitter since the the summer of 2006 and Tumblr the fall of 2007 and have been using them as my primary means of expressing thoughts and opinions […]
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Bento: My CRM Of Choice
I recently wrote about my transitioning to a new bug tracking system for Second Gear. In that post I discussed the prospect of using Bento: I was incredibly interested in Bento for a tracking solution, because of those reasons. Bento is an application that I have wanted to use for quite a while, but never […]
Hi. I'm Justin Williams and this is my weblog. I am the crew chief of Second Gear, a purveyor of fine Mac and iOS software.
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