June 2013
Learning iOS Design: A Hands-On Guide for Programmers and Designers Book Review
If you are a programmer, you must read this book to so you can see how the guys and gals that make our user interfaces go about their process. Understanding the way they think also help to bridge the communication gap that is there sometimes.
Learning iPad Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building iPad Apps, Second Edition Book Review
Although this book is written for iPad development, iPhone developers will benefit from reading it too. Almost all the core topics touched on apply both iPad and iPhone development. I highly recommend it to both.
March 2013
The Advanced iOS 6 Developer's Cookbook Book Review
Over all I found this to be an excellent book for experienced developers. It is a perfect addition to her The Core iOS 6 Developer's Cookbook.
Sams Teach Yourself iOS 6 Application Development in 24 Hrs 4th Edition Book Review
If you want to learn iOS 6 development, this is a great place to start.
January 2013
Learning Cocoa with Objective-C: Developing for the Mac and iOS App Stores Book Review
This book is a nice concise no nonsense introduction to Objective-C.
iOS 6 Programming Cookbook Book Review
This is a massive cookbook with tons of recipes. It covers a ton of material and it covers it in depth.
December 2012
The Core iOS 6 Developer's Cookbook Book Review
This book is an invaluable asset for any iOS developer and I highly recommend it. This book will continue to be within arm's reach every time I open Xcode.
.NET, iOS, and Java Architecture and Development Book Recommendations for 2013
Another year has gone by. Merry X-mas and Happy New Year everyone. It is time to update my book recommendation blog.
iOS SDK Development Book Review
This book a no nonsense approach to learning the key points of Objective-C and iOS at the speed of light. It is a fast paced sprint through tons of hands on examples.
Learning Objective-C 2.0: A Hands-on Guide to Objective-C for Mac and iOS Developers (2nd Edition) Book Review
If I had to give this book a one word description, I would say it is 'balanced'. I would recommend this book as the place to start for anyone coming from a different find which such as C# or Java, and also as the place to start for anybody looking to get into building applications with Objective-C.
September 2012
Major New Wifi Issues with iPhone 5 and iOS 6
Although Apple quickly fixed their delete test page that caused problems with user's wifi connections on their new iPhone 5s, that is not the real issue. There is still a huge issue with iOS 6 and possibly iPhone 5 hardware.
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