Those are the three books I have stacked on my desk, in accordance with my recent iPhone development news [link]. I’ve been reading them quite a lot over the last few days, so I thought I’d post my own opinionated summary of them.
Archive | May, 2010
I am now an iPhone app developer.
It’s finally happened. My tithe to Apple has been paid, and my iPhone has arrived on my desk.
Link: Firebug: Beyond console.log()
Firebug can do more than console.log(), it seems. Here’s a great article on just what it can do:
Link: Flash, Google, VP8, and the future of internet video
Interesting and very thorough post on the history, state of play and possible motivations for the row over Flash and HTML5 video – formats, patents, support; that kind of thing.
Link: Icon Generator Pro
I love this application, Icon Generator Pro. It’s simple, but sometimes that’s a good thing in an application, means it has focus – if you’re going to do something, do it properly – that’s one of the benefits of AIR, it makes it simple to create applications just like this.
What the application actually does is just generate images in a few specific formats, output the files (in a format useful for your own AIR applications) and even, from the looks of it, replace your Twitter icon with your new file.
If you haven’t seen the earlier version of this application, its still available from the AIR Marketplace [link], and the newer version, Icon Generator Pro is available from http://icon-generator.net/.
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