Date.fm co-founder Andrew Chalkley says that Heroku has been integral in bringing his company from the red and into the black in just six months.
“Heroku enables us, as a very lean startup. We’re not venture-backed. We’re not going into debt, we’re financing everything through our app development,” says Chalkley. “We didn’t want to go down the route of traditional hosting because we didn’t want to deal with scaling up the traditional way. We know that if and when we need it, we can scale our architecture with relative ease compared to the traditional way of doing things.”
Doing a blocks talk this Wednesday night at 7pm
I’m doing a talk on using blocks w/ iOS dev this Wednesday night for PDX Cocoaheads at ELC Technologies in the Pearl. John Poole, who does Geekbench will also be co-presenting.
See how his company is called Primate Labs, and mine is called Secret Monkey Science? I will let you read into that what you will.
I’m going to be covering a couple real world block examples. John’s going to do a brief overview, and talk about Grand Central Dispatch.
Free entry, free pizza, free beer, provided by ELC Technologies.
Wednesday, April 25th at 7:00pm
ELC Portland
1771 NW Pettygrove Street
Portland OR, 97209 USA
‘Princess Coloring Book’ available now for iPad!
The Princess Coloring Book is the ULTIMATE coloring experience!
Guaranteed to keep little princesses busy with 32 SCENES 🌄 to choose from.
With 18 VIBRANT COLORS and eraser. Slide your finger up the “Pen Slider” on the right to change pen size.
PINCH and ZOOM in on the pictures to get into those tight places!
SAVE your finished pictures to your Photo Library. If you’re not finished coloring a page, The Princess Coloring Book will save where you left off, and you can work on another picture!
The Princess Coloring Book takes iPad coloring to a new level. It’s better for the environment than traditional coloring books, and it can be used OVER and OVER AGAIN :)
Download it now in the App Store!
‘Carjacked’ Title Sequence
Here is the title sequence I created for ‘Carjacked’ starring Stephen Dorff and Maria Bello, directed by John Bonito. Blu-Ray/DVD available on Amazon.com
eHarmony Love Doctor, we know you have a foolproof matching formula. But there is something seriously missing from the magic equation that has worked pretty well since the dawn of time: the spark check. Photos, asynchronous messages and “winks” all have their place in the…
Get.fm Spotlights Date.fm
Get.fm is featuring Date.fm as one of their success stories! They also list Date.fm as one of their ‘spotlights’ on the homepage!
We might already be ruffling some feathers in the online dating industry.
Firstly, before launch we wrote a blog post, put up our initial marketing video and got some interest generated via hacker news. A well established dating company contacted us to offer to buy us out before launch. All…
We’re happy to announce that Date.fm has become the first video chat dating app in the world.
Working with TokBox, the provider of the OpenTok iOS SDK, we were able to integrate video chat directly in to our app and become the first in the App Store to utilize the SDK.
We think it…
Apparently this is COMING SOON.
@jacknutting New Objective-C literals for the future. Apple has pushed these into LLVM, so they’re not under NDA any more!
Objective-C literals: one can now create literals for NSArray, NSDictionary, and NSNumber (just like one can create literals for NSString)
NSArray Literals
Previously:
array = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:a, b, c, nil];Now:
array = @[ a, b, c ];NSDictionary Literals
Previously:
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‘Dinosaur Coloring Book’ for iPad released!
Secret Monkey Science has just released its newest iPad app, ‘Dinosaur Coloring Book’!





🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The Dinosaur Coloring Book is the ULTIMATE coloring experience! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
👍 Guaranteed to keep little dinosaur-fan hands busy with 32 SCENES 🌄 to choose from.
🎨 With 12 VIBRANT COLORS and eraser. Slide your finger up the “Pen Slider” on the right to change pen size.
🔍 PINCH and ZOOM in on the pictures to get into those tight places!
📷 SAVE your finished pictures to your Photo Library. If you’re not finished coloring a page, The Dinosaur Coloring Book will save where you left off, and you can work on another picture!
🌴 The Dinosaur Coloring Book takes iPad coloring to a new level. It’s better for the environment than traditional coloring books, and it can be used OVER and OVER AGAIN :)







Check it out! 



