Preface

My professional coding career has gone from large to small in a variety of ways. I started on 3279 terminals at IBM, and with each professional move (from Ericsson to Travelocity and others) I went to smaller machines and smaller companies. Now I work on computers you can fit in your pocket and at a company of one: me.

When I first started working in mobile development, I used J2ME on various phones, including Blackberries. When I got the chance to work on an iPhone, I purchased my first MacBook and loved it! It wasn’t until sometime later that I realized that I had gotten in at the beginning of the mobile wave. Solving problems alone, and often under non-disclosure agreements, I learned a lot, and as each new version of the OS came ...

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