As Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother once pointed out, “New Is Always Better”, but does this principle hold true for free application updates on Apple’s AppStore? This article delves into the alarming practices of “bait and switch” by some application developers on the AppStore, as well as how this situation will be [...]

As regular readers know, Jeanne and I blogged heavily at TheServerSide Java Symposium 2011, writing over 30 articles in a three-day period. What we may not have had time to mention is that we both did so entirely from a pair of Apple iPads. Below is a summary of some of things I learned during [...]

Currently attending “Comparing, Contrasting, and Differentiating Between Mobile Platforms” by Mark Spritzler, a fellow CodeRanch moderator.  The presentation is in part an open discussion with the audience of what people have tried and works well in the Mobile environment. 1.  What is out there? Android OS (Java) Apple iOS for iPhone/iPod/iPad Web applications with custom [...]