Bove Tony - iPad Application Development For Dummies

iPad Application Development For Dummies

by Neal Goldstein and Tony Bove

iPad Application Development For Dummies

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About the Authors

Neal Goldstein is a recognized leader in making state-of-the-art and cutting-edge technologies practical for commercial and enterprise development. He was one of the first technologists to work with commercial developers at firms such as Apple Computer, Lucasfilm, and Microsoft to develop commercial applications using object-based programming technologies. He was a pioneer in moving that approach into the corporate world for developers at Liberty Mutual Insurance, USWest (now Verizon), National Car Rental, EDS, and Continental Airlines, showing them how object-oriented programming could solve enterprise-wide problems. His book (with Jeff Alger) on object-oriented development, Developing Object-Oriented Software for the Macintosh (Addison Wesley, 1992), introduced the idea of scenarios and patterns to developers.

Neal was an early advocate of the Microsoft .NET framework and successfully introduced it into many enterprises, including Charles Schwab. He was one of the earliest developers of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and as Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology and the Chief Architect at Charles Schwab, he built an integrated SOA solution that spanned the enterprise, from desktop PCs to servers to complex network mainframes. (He holds three patents as a result.) As one of IBMs largest customers, he introduced them to SOA at the enterprise level and encouraged them to head in that direction.

He is currently a principal in mobilefortytwo with four applications (and many more to come, so check regularly) in the App Store Photographing San Francisco Digital Field Guide, Photographing Yosemite Digital Field Guide, Photographing New York Digital Field Guide, and Photographing Washington Digital Field Guide. These apps take the information and tools needed to take postcard perfect pictures and turn them into something that a photographer can use and apply in the field.

He started his writing career with Developing Object-Oriented Software for the Macintosh: Analysis, Design, and Programming (Addison-Wesley). He is currently passionate about the real value that mobile devices can provide and has written several books on iPhone programming, including iPhone Application Development For Dummies, both editions, Objective-C For Dummies, and he coauthored (with Tony) iPhone Application Development For Dummies (all from Wiley).

Tony Bove is crazy about the iPad, iPod, and iPhone, and not only provides free tips on his Web site (www.tonybove.com) but also developed an iPhone application (Tonys Tips for iPhone Users) and is fast developing an iPad app. Tony has written more than two dozen books on computing, desktop publishing, and multimedia, including iPod & iTunes For Dummies (Wiley), Just Say No to Microsoft (No Starch Press), The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam), and a series of books about Macromedia Director, Adobe Illustrator, and PageMaker, and he coauthored (with Neal) iPhone Application Development For Dummies (Wiley). Tony founded Desktop Publishing/Publish magazine and the Inside Report on New Media newsletter, and wrote the weekly Macintosh column for Computer Currents for over a decade, as well as articles for NeXTWORLD, the Chicago Tribune Sunday Technology Section, and NewMedia for over two decades.

Tracing the personal computer revolution back to the 1960s counterculture, Tony produced a CD-ROM interactive documentary in 1996, Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties (featuring music from the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane). He also developed the Rockument music site, www.rockument.com, with commentary and podcasts focused on rock music history. As a founding member of the Flying Other Brothers, which toured professionally and released three commercial CDs, Tony performed with Hall of Fame rock musicians. Tony has also worked as a director of enterprise marketing for leading-edge software companies, as a marketing messaging consultant, and as a communications director and technical publications manager.

Dedication

Neal Goldstein: To my children, Sarah and Evan, and all of my personal and artist friends who have kept me centered on the (real) world outside of writing and technology. But most of all to my wife Linda who is everything that I ever hoped for and more than I deserve. Yes Sam... the light at the end of the tunnel is not a freight train.