This week I achieved a goal that’s been simmering on the back burner for a while: getting started with iPhone app development. Apple calls each of its new products “revolutionary,” but the iPhone platform (which also includes the iPod touch and the upcoming iPad) actually is, because it creates new ways to interact with the device. Beyond moving a mouse or clicking a button, the iPhone responds to movement, multi-touch and even puffs of air directed at the microphone. (more…)

As a web developer I’m constantly looking for ways to improve my techniques, and one big change I made this year worked out better than expected. For the two large sites I built from the ground up this year (and a third, smaller site), I used Object Oriented Programming (OOP) for the first time. (more…)