Yesterday Apple announced that more than three billion apps have now been downloaded from its App Store. There are now more than 85,000 apps available, to the more than 60 million devices.This is particularly impressive when you consider that the App store has only been in existence for 18 months. The rate is accelerating as the 2 billion downloads milestone was only in October. Currently there are

I recently gave a talk at the Enterprise Ireland iPhone event, entitled "Approaches To iPhone Development & The Irish iPhone Developer Community"My presentation covered;Why iPhone?Web Apps versus Native AppsIn-House Development versus Outsourced DevelopmentThe iPhone Developer Community in IrelandOS3 - Enterprise Ireland - Approaches To I Phone Development & The Irish iPhone Developer CommunityView

I recently gave a presentation to DevDays Galway which was a walkthrough of Building a Twitter iPhone App.The goal was to give a grounding in the fundamentals of an iPhone app development. The presentation covers;Project Tools and Design Patterns Use Interface Builder to visually design your application's interfaceResponding to User InputHow to connect your code to your interface elements OS3 - DevDays

Recently Apple started running a static analysis on iPhone App submissions to detect the use of Private APIs. The Three20 framework has several references to private APIs in test code and so apps using the framework were rejected. The issue has now been resolved in the main Three20 project, however the main project has only supported iPhone SDK 3.0 and above for some time now. Not good if you want

BizCamp Dublin is a conference (or un-conference) for start-up companies and entrepreneurs featuring attendee generated content. It took place on Saturday September 9th in the Guinness Storehouse. It was a fantastic event with lots of interesting talks, interesting people and a real buzz. Here is a quick run down on my thoughts on what I attended.Raising Money - Gerard BrandonThe day kicked off for

OK, having decided to start a blog, my next step was to consider the options around blogging clients. I ruled out web clients straight away, as I was something that I can use off-line. A quick review of what people are saying online, led me to to the top two contenders, MarsEdit and EctoMarsEditMy initial thoughts of MarsEdit were very positive. Its a powerful, well thought out application, with a

So, to mark my imminent move to indy-pendance as a full time freelance iPhone developer I've decided to start a blog to record my progress and lessons learned along the way. I don't expect that anyone will actually read this, but you never know. Mainly I'm writing this for myself. I find that writing about something helps me clarify my thoughts. I'll be writing about iPhone development and related