In the past few days I have followed what people have been posting online, and on Twitter, about the now announced 2016 edition of WWDC with great interest. Of course there are lots of people that are excited and super jazzed about the chance of getting to go to dub dub. But there also seems to be a bit of backlash against the cost of hotels in San Francisco during the event, and people questioning if going is the right choice for them. While the cost is an issue, its not a new barrier for many people. And the question of what value WWDC offers in todays changing app ecosystem, and the changing market indie developers are playing in, is what I think is really at the heart of many peoples move away from dub dub. Read More

Using 3rd party APIs, SDKs, dependencies (what a program like CocoaPods lets you manage), or Backend Services (BaaS), is something every developer does. It may be something as simple and common place as a Facebook API, a dependency to help you parse JSON, or something more specialized like a BaaS that manages a cloud database, or a mapping SDK that allows you to track movements in real-time. In some cases their use is necessary, but it can also be very easy to fall into the trap of using and relying on them too much since they can cut down the initial amount of development time significantly.

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It has been a little quiet on my site recently but this is due to a great deal going on elsewhere. There has been the continued work on Serendipity Way which, as I will cover in a post tomorrow, has encountered an issue that has meant doubling down on work to make sure it still meets an April release date.

There is also the upcoming NSNorth conference and getting ready for my talk there! I have a number of articles that are just about ready to be posted once I get the time to do a final proof read and edit on them. And there are a number of proposals I am putting together for the summer and fall conference season.

All to say that the posts will be a little slow over the next few weeks but I am looking forward to publishing on a regular basis again in May, and looking forward to spring weather finally arriving!