iPhone Development Blog

My company, Pervasent, develops complex, enterprise class iPhone/iPad software. If that’s what you do, then please keep reading.

Please take a moment and look at our portfolio on our web site. If you have developed similar applications, then we definitely want to talk to you.

At Pervasent we really enjoy our work, and are looking for people who think developing iPhone/iPad applications is fun. We can’t wait to get to work (well, most of the time). We have the pleasure of working with other passionate developers, both on our own projects, and for our top-tier clients. We have been developing applications for the platform since the day it became available for third parties, so other than working for Apple, you can’t work with a more experienced team of developers than you can at Pervasent.

We have two immediate openings for an onsite project in San Francisco to work on a top 10 iPad app. For other projects, we are open to candidates in other locations. Please note that we only hire individuals, not companies. If you work for a consulting or contracting company and you want to offer *your* services, that’s fine, but then we want to see *your* qualifications, not your company’s aggregated portfolio.

These are contract to hire, or long-term contracting positions. And of course you will get paid for your work; no internships or revenue share BS.

All the developers in our company have 10-15 years of large scale, enterprise software development experience. If you have a similar background that’s a definite plus, but not a requirement. But design patterns, object modeling and data modeling must be ingrained in your thinking. Be prepared to answer questions more complex than “explain the benefits of an MVC architecture.”

You should have completed at least a couple of iPhone apps, either as an individual or as a part of a team. Please point us to your best apps in the App Store and describe your development role in each of them.

Beauty and quality comes from within, so at some point we will need to do a code review of something that you have written (this can occur in person on your equipment; we don’t expect you to send us your crown jewels). If that scares you, then this would be a good point to stop reading.

Finally, and most importantly, please tell us why you’re passionate about developing iPhone/iPad apps.

Thank you for your time and attention. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Today the Zinio app rocketed up to the #1 slot in the News category for free apps. It is ranked ahead of NYTimes, Yahoo!, NPR and USA Today. Pretty cool.

The app allows you to read magazines on your iPhone. The magazine pages are rendered just like they appear in the dead tree version of the magazine, or you can select a text mode where you lose the overall layout of the page, but the text fills the screen and is much easier to read.

If you live outside the United States then physical magazine subscriptions from the U.S. are typically very expensive due to the postage. (You used to be able to select surface mail, which was much cheaper. But then it took three months for the magazine to arrive. I always wondered what kind of surface vessel took 3 months to cross the Atlantic to Europe. I guess those ships have been retired because surface mail is no longer an option.) With a digital subscription from Zino you get the bits immediately and for a much more reasonable price. And you can read the magazines on your iPhone, another mobile device, or on your computer.

It’s a really nice app. Check it out.

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I was part of the team that developed the People Celebrity News Tracker which launched last week. It has since then hit #13 on the top list of all paid apps. Apple’s promotion of the app on the App Store home page was a nice endorsement, and no doubt helped the sales.

If you search for “celebrity” in the App Store the #1 search result is the People app. And #3 is another app that I worked on: Funniest Celebrity Quotes, Jokes & Bloopers.

After cornering the market on celebrity apps I need a break to spend some time in the real world again.

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I’m honored and humbled to have created the App Store Pick of the Week. Please check out The Green Book, a real book bestseller published on the iPhone using the TRIBE reader.

Apple has created a new Green Room section in the app store in time for Earth Day. And The Green Book is also featured here.

Congratulations Genus!

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Apptism just reported that they are now tracking 20,000 apps on the App Store. I thought I’d take inventory of the number of apps that I’ve written for clients that are available on the App Store now. The total tally comes to 164. Granted 132 of those are books powered by the Iceberg book reader. (They are not not public domain books, but current best sellers from big name publishers.)

That gives me about a 0.8% share of the number of apps, which is the same as when the App Store launched. So I’m keeping pace with the growth of the App Store!

After this self-congratulatory post, back to our regular scheduled program…

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It’s truly an honor (and a great sales boost!) to be selected as an Apple Staff Favorite.

This is the first in a series of TRIBE apps I developed for Genus.

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A really nice review of the Chicago Tribune Sports Reader from iPhone, Therefore I blog.

I love it when I download something in the app store that makes me say “COOL or WOW!”

I also like it when someone creates something that’s not a carbon copy of something already in the store.

The Chicago Tribune Sports Reader is a perfect example of both.

I was part of the team that built this app for the Tribune.

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