My development and consulting company is tigerbears, LLC.
After a brief burst of activity in 2007, this blog fell into disuse. “There are many like it, but this one is mine.”
Once upon a time, I was a primarily a front-end web developer. Java and Javascript, all day long. I spent about nine years as senior UI engineer at Netflix and quit in late 2006 to do the indie consultant thing. Unfortunately, after just a few weeks, I ran into a few medical snafus that slowed me down for over a year. (Don’t let your neck get screwed up, kids, because collecting MRIs sucks.)
Now, nobody really likes the old lemons-into-lemonade spiel, but this is one case where it came true. It was a great opportunity to put things into perspective and look for a new path.
Apple provided that path by releasing the iPhone SDK in 2008.
Not having a C or Objective-C background meant that I had some catching-up to do, but I have to say I haven’t been this excited about slinging code since my first forays into Java back in the day. (That was using the Cocoa-Java bridge, even … maybe on OSX 10.0 DR3? Later?) Learning Cocoa was something that has called to me for a long time (when it was NeXTStep, even) and I’m stoked to have finally taken the plunge.
My flagship software these days is a Mac application for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch developers, called Objectify. It saves developers time by generating Objective-C source code for model classes based on JSON content, including methods for creating instances of these classes with attributes populated from NSDictionaries parsed from that very same JSON.
My first iOS app, Tallies, is still available on the App Store. Most of my client work since that long-ago release is under NDA, but you can learn about some of those efforts here.
Besides code, I’m into film, zombie fiction, and motorcycles. My bikes may be trapped in the garage for now, but your spirit never really leaves the racetrack.
Cheers,
Bill