tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241013152284479770.post8785923424311679414..comments2023-07-28T04:58:13.970-04:00Comments on Steinn (Stan) Jónsson's Tech Talk: CodeMash 2009Steinn Jónssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03561013028097975228noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241013152284479770.post-12547708533628688722009-01-14T00:49:00.000-05:002009-01-14T00:49:00.000-05:00Thanks for the tip Albert.I just had a dinner with...Thanks for the tip Albert.<BR/>I just had a dinner with a friend who was very adamant that I needed to get into *native* development for the iPhone, insisting "That's where the money is. There is no money in web applications". I told him, ehh... I just wanted to learn Grails, and maybe make some money on ads if the site attracts traffic. He said "You need to think like a businessman. You can write crappy iPhone apps and people will buy them! iFart sold 40 thousand copies on Christmas Day!". He has a simple 99 cent speed-dial app in the AppStore, which is selling at about 100 copies a day, so he has a point. I know though that he had to pull a lot of long nights (and hair) getting that one out the door. <BR/>Now my mind is racing thinking up what kind of useless apps I could come up with to take people for their money. I actually thought I had some clever ideas earlier, only to check the AppStore and discover several people had already implemented them. The market is getting saturated fast...<BR/>Oh, and I also need to convince my wife we need to buy a Mac :-) Seems even if you use another programming language, you still need a Mac, for the iPhone SDK.Steinn Jónssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03561013028097975228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241013152284479770.post-42400802523716714232009-01-13T04:48:00.000-05:002009-01-13T04:48:00.000-05:00Má ég vera í vatnagarðinum á meðan?! HE HE HE HE H...Má ég vera í vatnagarðinum á meðan?! HE HE HE HE HE! SiggaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241013152284479770.post-22182537789236546352009-01-12T06:52:00.000-05:002009-01-12T06:52:00.000-05:00As to programming the iPhone, you could also use M...As to programming the iPhone, you could also use Mono/C#. You can see some more info on the blog of <A HREF="http://tirania.org/blog/" REL="nofollow">Miguel de Icaza</A>.<BR/><BR/>Regarding Erlang, its coolest feature in my opinion is that networking support is built into the syntax of the language. This takes networking to a whole different level and factors out many of the headaches involved in network programming. It's no coincidence that Facebook chose to implement their chat in Erlang, just to take one recent example. <BR/><BR/>As to the three "line terminators", they reflect the heavy influences from Prolog on the Erlang language. Prolog goes back 35+ years, so that explains something :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com