A Day in the Life

I’ve often mentioned in my posts, that I try to use 3rd party libraries for a lot of things if I find anything suitable. Current external libs/code I’m using in Pocket Nature are Ogre Precedural …

Headphone Jack please go back

After using an iPhone 5  for 4 months there’s one thing I just can’t get used to: the bottom headphone jack. This picture explains why. With my old iPhone I often only pulled it partially out …

About reusable code, a decade later

The past I’ve been working as a programmer for over a decade now, most of that time I’ve spent in the games industry. And starting as a junior programmer in 1999 at neo software (which …

Minimalism rocks

Today I want to write why my little prayer wheel app is so useful and important for me. More generally I want to point out, why every iOS developer should have one app with a …

Analyzing Apple’s Success

Without any doubt Apple is currently the most successful company in consumer electronics. So out of curiosity I tried to analyze what makes them special compared to others. Of course there are many factors but …