Demian's Blog

It seems like a good idea?  Quite inspirational article about a UK developer fed up with the pressures of the games industry, throws in the towel to go solo and does fairly well out of it.

Read more about James Brown and his game Ancient Workshop.

To find out more about using MySQL in iPhone development see the full details over at the eval-art website.

Once you’ve installed your security update you will no longer be able to deploy apps to your device with Xcode, until you run the update advised here.

Drew Crawford has written an excellent article How to find an iPhone developer that describes some of the details involved in building an iPhone app and dispelling many common myths.

• All you have to do is find a developer
• No, your app is not “simple”
• The good developers are always busy
• But this five-star company on eLance offered to make my app for $10!
• How to find a developer
• If you don’t have $5k, walk away

A client showed me this today, really impressive.

The folks over at Packt publishing have published a nice succinct overview to get you started building your first iPhone app.  Of course it’s a Hello World! program, and, despite a few errors, it serves as a useful introduction, including a brief overview of the structure of the iPhone OS .

In order to make the example work

• ignore the references to FirstApp.m, the author is referring to FirstAppAppDelegate.m which was created for you
• you also need to remove [window addSubview:viewController.view]; from the applicationDidFinishLaunching method

Matt Gemmell recently published the iPhone Development Emergency Guide – quite handy if you’re just getting into iPhone development.