Objective-C Diamonds

Some people asked me, what the claim Your code is now diamonds mean and where it comes from. When I suggested objc.diamonds as domain name for my blog Martin came with the great idea quoting an old Old Spice advertisement The tickets are now diamonds. This sounded so mad to me, that I started to set up the blog, thrilled by the idea of having a unique design for a coders blog with a unique name.

The idea behind objc.diamonds is sharing my ideas and thoughts around the mobile world and development in special with other people and my future me.

Sometimes it overwhelmes me and I have to take a look at Kickstarter browsing all popular technology and design products. This time I found three interesting products. Today I like to mention the first: Covr.

Covr is an iPhone Case with a build in camera lense. It enables you to make photos without holding the display in front of you.

Lars, a great mentalist pushed me to read a great article about how creative people differ from people less creative. In my job as Product Owner creativity plays a key role and I found myself in several points described there.

Some years ago I used cocos2d to create some games for the iOS app store. Recently, Sean showed me Apportable, a cross-compiler, which enables you to write your application with Objective-C and the cocos2d-framework and easily deploy it to any Android-device.

This services comes for free in a basis version and costs money, if you want to support older Android versions and need more extra functionality.

If you plan to roll out your game on iOS and Android it can be worth to considerate, to use Apportable to get this job done.

Hey there. Today I found  smart iPhone Cover, which shows you, wether you get an incomming call, SMS or push notification.

Quartz is a website with great informations, but not really development related, so why do I show it to you? Quartz has build a new way to comment and annotate parts of their articles.

I really liked it and hope you will like it, too. Have a quick look at the video and tell me what you think!

"Yes, I now have a domain for my techie blog", I was happy, when registering objc.diamonds. Now, some weeks later I got 3 domains more, I really do not wanted to register. So, why did I registered three domains more?

My providers user interface was so useless, that I was not able to delete my pre-registered new gTLDs. Got no time for a phone call, so I am now the proud owner of following domains, someone may want to use.

cocoa.coffee

objc.codes

coder.codes

Mirko sent me a great post about mobile tutorials and why they can fail without mercy. I've seen many tutorials yet, but never got a so valuable summary of why things work and why they do not.

Theresa Neil and Rich Malley opened my eyes with their article.

Sunday I moaned, because TestFlight removed it's crash reporting service for released applications. Today I tell you, why I use it nonetheless.

TestFlight is a free and easy way to provide beta-apps to your testers. There is no need anymore to

connect the receiving device to the computer

ask your testers for their UDID

tell the testers you send them a mobileprovision- and a ipa-file

explain how to synchronize the device with iTunes

Instead you can ask your testers to register at Testflight. This automaticly will import the UDID. If you create a new build, you can send it to your testers and they can install this over the air via Testflights web snippet, that was installed during registration process.

Before I decided to use Testflight it really jars on the nerves to add a new tester to my test team. Now this works like a snip.

Did you ever asked yourself, why some people selling nearly the same products as other people are more ore less successful? Why was Apples iPod such a great success and Dells MP3 players can be counted as fail, compared to Apple.

Simon Sinek talks about how communication can change the way we think about products and why it is more important why you do something then what you do.