These are sweet times in the world of mobile computing. The whole industry is changing before our eyes as mobile apps shift gradually (for now) toward the cloud. Development for iOS and OSX is evolving. It’s moving to the cloud. Amidst this transition, the core foundation for mobile apps is the database itself – the… Continue Reading
Some may have noticed that as of the last week in November 2010, there was an outage in the iOS API compilation system, this caused some API methods to fail with a server 500 error. The cause of this was a deployment error – somehow the bug had crept into our code tree and as… Continue Reading
The Missing Link Let’s take a minute to look at the rise of the internet from a gamers perspective. What it brought was fundamental to the way we play games today. Features like downloadable or user generated content and in-game communities added a dimension to games that simply cannot be achieved by other means. However… Continue Reading
This month brought another high-brow Apple media event, and with it more juicy news for Apple iOS developers. Only this time the news isn’t centred on iOS, its all about OSX. In a nutshell Apple’s much respected and coveted app store distribution model is coming to OSX. As of OSX Lion coming 2011, iMacs, Mac… Continue Reading
Our initial look at the tools available for working with databases and push notifications in iPhone app development showed us that there was nothing currently ready for what we wanted. We were fed up of writing PHP and MySQL code to glue databases into iPhone apps and send push notifications. We thought there should be… Continue Reading
The Beginning Kumulos is here, or at least, nearly. So why not start off our blog talking a little about where Kumulos came from, and why it was built in the first place. One of the most common aspects of mobile and iPhone app development we find is the requirement, one way or another, to… Continue Reading