Archive for June, 2008

Evenhere @ MIT EmTech conference

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

One of the products I’ve been working on for a number of years now is getting some visibility in a very cool way – the owner of the company is going to be exhibiting the product at the MIT EmTech conference in September this year.

The product is called Evenhere – its a platform for enabling product placement along a video time-line. The results can be presented on the web, on a set top box, or in any number of other interesting ways.  See the website for more information.

A little coverage over at scripted.com: http://scripped.com/blog/2008/09/25/emtech-at-mit/

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iPhone development thoughts

Friday, June 6th, 2008

I’ve recently finished the functionality of my first native iPhone application. Here are some thoughts:

  • Apple makes it easy to “do the right thing” as far as the UIKit libraries go, pretty nice, and cleaner & easier than Swing or .NET in many ways. Very humanistic.
  • Unless I’m missing something, common tasks like field validation don’t seem to be built-in, that’s a hassle…
  • No SOAP libraries yet either.
  • Interface Builder isn’t quite there yet – many components still missing, so unless you’re doing a pretty simple UI, better code it by hand (which isn’t really that bad…)
  • I’m not a huge fan of XCode – the code completion is very weak compared to eclipse, as is the display of errors/warnings – many more clicks/research needed to diagnose what’s going on.
  • Managing your own memory sucks…
  • Since I’m coding the UI by hand, lining things up pixel perfect is quite a hassle. I’d be nice if they had the concept of a layout manager, like Swing/AWT, laying out components in a grid is not intuative (many examples I’ve seen use UITableView and a whole mess of ugly switch statements – very inconvenient & hard to maintain.)

Read on for more about the app…

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