iPhone Tech Talks: A Great Success

I was at the London iPhone Tech Talks yesterday. It was a free event put on by Apple with talks by Apple’s engineers. More importantly, it was at a great venue with free food and drink all day, and free beer and wine afterwards. Also, the wifi worked!

I have two of my own apps on the store right now, with a freelance project about to appear as well. One app in particular is giving me some grief — I’m using Apple’s push API to send out reminders, but it’s not being 100% reliable. Fortunately there was a talk about push, and I was able to talk to the speaker afterwards about my issues — by following his advice I’ve already fixed my app.

There was also a good talk on iPhone fundamentals which included some coverage of NSOperation. I've been looking for a simple way of backgrounding API requests in my apps, so this talk helped a lot.

Despite the talks being pretty basic I’ve been working with the iPhone API since the start, and Cocoa for longer, and I learned a lot. Getting advice on how to fix real apps from Apple engineers was hugely useful for me.