Image by Six Revisions The Internet is rife with opinions. It’s a stew of different communities, complete with their own thought leaders and carefully-drawn lines to separate them. I have my own community, and the occasions where I get a look at others are the opportunities for me to grow. Since the beginning of the Internet, the hyperlink has been the token of currency, strengthening the bonds that tie all the thinkers of the Web together.

Code is serious business. It’s not always mission-critical, life-dependent stuff, but any programmer who’s spent long nights furiously trying to extinguish an inexplicable bug knows that it’s often no laughing matter. Yet I, and I think many in our careers, suffer from a condition called codeaphilia, a love of coding. The practice of it. Despite the frustration, the harsh deadlines, the constant quest for perfection (never achieved) and the thankless rewards, this is what I love to do.

Note: I wrote this post in January of 2013. It remained in my Drafts folder till I discovered it today. I have no idea why I didn’t post it back then, but here it is now. -AV I got stumped last night on an uncommon (to me, anyway) problem while working on an app in Xcode. And because I couldn’t find an answer on Google or Stack Overflow, I figured it belonged online somewhere, so here goes.

I’ve been making some changes to my life of late, bidding adieu to broad, take-em-all freelancing for the Web, and moving towards a state of steadier, longer-term relationships building for iOS. I’m reading these days as a fin de siècle, an end of one era, and the beginning of another. It’s a period of transition. Right now I continue to provide service to a small number of clients; it’s a vanishing business.

I don’t often talk about my work directly. It’s either covered by an NDA, or not important enough to merit attention. But today marks a transition for me, and I thought it would be worthwhile to make a note of it. I’ve just concluded an eight-week contract with The Working Group, helping them build the iPad version of TSN’s new Hockey app. I’m really happy with the end result, and I’m looking forward to the update that’ll be coming in a few more weeks (or so) that completes all the functionality we’ve been working on.