iOS Development Goodies

One more change after the URL update. I decided to switch the whole site over to WordPress from Tumblr, to have more options down the line. Unless  you were following the site on Tumblr, everything will redirect just fine and  you don’t need to do anything. I’ll make a last post over on the old Tumblr site for the folks on that end. Comments haven’t been migrated over here yet, I’ll see if I can preserve them.

Tomorrow, it’s back to some iOS development content. I’m just as giddy about that as you no doubt are.

While the site is still young, I’ve gone ahead and changed the URL to http://iosdevgoodies.joostschuur.com (personal branding and all). RSS was already handled by a FeedBurner redirect and Tumblr is redirecting from the original URL, so no action should be required by my early readers.

Big thanks again to everyone who’s subscribed, followed on Twitter, commented and passed the site details on to others. It’s been a huge motivational help getting it off the ground. I didn’t expect things to move this quickly.

With some links and tweets by ManiacDev, Dylan Beadle, Craig Hockenberry and Daniel Kast, it looks like this humble new project of mine is out of the gate a little sooner than I expected. Hello my dear inaugural visitors, and thanks for stopping by!

A few short notes about myself: My name is Joost Schuur, and for the last 10 years, I’ve been a developer relations and product manager in the gaming industry Before that, I was a software engineer in the burgeoning web applications industry after a long youth as a nerdy kid that grew up around computers in the 80ies. I wish I had the obligatory faded picture of me in front of my Timex Sinclair 1000, Commodore 64 or Atari ST, but you’ll have to take my word for it. Lately, I’ve gotten the itch to write code again and develop something of my own that others can use and benefit from, so as an unabashed Apple enthusiast, my sights naturally set on the iPhone platform.

At first I was concerned that I’d be jumping in late into iPhone development and everyone else already had a 1-2 year head start, to say nothing of Mac developers who have been coding in Objective-C for years now. However, I realized that a wealth of material was out there to get new inductees like myself up to speed. I launched this site as an outlet to document my own findings and share them with others. Some of it will introductory material appealing to people just starting out, while advanced and seasoned developers might find frameworks and code snippets here too to save them some time on larger projects. There will be some old stuff that was news to me and recently released content too. Sometimes I’ll devote a whole post to an item, other times I’ll aggregate a few of them into a goodie roundup.

But enough talk. Too much blogging here and I’ll never get any coding done today. I’ve been cutting my teeth on a small calculator app, and am in the midst of some major refactoring. Every new iPhone developer should of course write a calculator and a Twitter client to learn the ropes, so I’m doing my part.

Enjoy the site, subscribe or follow it on Twitter, and if you have a project that you’d like to have featured here drop me a line.