An open look into modern development practices on the iphone

• Handy Info.plist entries for iPhone Projects
  

  There are a bunch of helpful key-value entries you can put in the Info.plist file of your iPhone app.
  These are pretty well documented on the Apple site, but if you’re like me, you had a really hard time finding them. I decided to post the most useful ones here for easy access.

  Posted by gilly on Apr 16.09

• Wabi Sabi 侘寂 of Designing for the iPhone
  

  Doing a bit of personal digging into philosophy earlier this week, I came across the Zen concept of Wabi Sabi.
  Breaking it down, Wabi Sabi 侘寂 is a view of the world which embraces the concept of transience. The idea that, simply stated, that which isn’t done is still beautiful.
  For designers, I think this is a [...]

  Posted by ramijames on Apr 08.09

• Iphone UI and Usability Experience Series Introduction
  

  Iphone UI and Usability
  Introduction:
  This is the first installment in my series about iPhone User Interface Design and Usability.

  Posted by amnon on Apr 07.09

• A Generic Color Picker For The iPhone
  

  We recently developed a generic color picker that can be plugged in to any application.

  More than once while designing our applications someone said the sentence, “Ok, now we need a color picker.”‘ More than once means we need a generic, reusable bit of code.

  Posted by gilly on Apr 01.09

• Application design flickr set
  

  There is now a vevent flickr set with all our app designs.
  So you can see screenshots of what we are working on here.

  Posted by ramijames on Mar 29.09

• Another Hello
  

  Hello world! Can you tell I’m the programmer yet ?
  I wanted to add to the introduction previously posted. I’m Gilly, the more technical programmy part of the Vevent team.
  I will be putting up posts with some iPhone programming tips , as well as problems I’ve come accross with (hopefully) solutions.
  I have never had a Blog [...]

  Posted by gilly on Mar 27.09

• The Dirty Little Clause in the iPhone App Dev Contract
  

  There is a nasty little clause in the updated version of the iPhone developer contract.
  The contract with apple, according to this article from The Washington Post, states:
  “In the event that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) receives any notice or claim from any end-user that: (i) the end-user wishes to cancel its license to any of the Licensed [...]

  Posted by ramijames on Mar 27.09

• Methodology of Working from Home
  

  Some general ideas I’ve had about how to go about working at home efficiently and effectively.
  I suppose it is important that I stress how fortunate that I feel that I get to do the kind of work that I do and moreso that I get to do it from the comfort of my own home. [...]

  Posted by ramijames on Mar 27.09

• Getting Started
  

  Hi to everyone out there!
  I just wanted to take this opportunity to introduce Vevent, talk a bit about the objectives of this blog and tell a little about myself.
  About Vevent
  Not to repeat myself too much, Vevent is a small development house for iPhone apps. We sit in beautiful Tel Aviv, in Israel. Working from home, [...]

  Posted by ramijames on Mar 23.09