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Common Sense iPhone App purchased by Fox Sports Latin America

Fox Sports Latin American bought iFixture 2010, a Successful Soccer App. Common Sense LLC is happy to announce that Fox Sports Latin America has purchased iFixture 2010, a successful World Cup and Soccer news application developed by Common Sense for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. “We saw that the iFixture 2010 app already had many [...]

Strengths and weaknesses of Latin American countries

iFixture: Success for South Africa World Cup iPhone app

One of Common Sense’s internal projects, a useful and free iPhone application for the FIFA World Cup has been downloaded over 26,000 times in less than twenty days! iFixture 2010 is the best way to stay up to date on the FIFA World Cup Matches! (iTunes Link) iFixture is ranked as number 1 iPhone app [...]

Apple announcements via Liveblogs and Twitter

As you may imagine, we at Common Sense are very interested in the announcements at today’s Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference, so we thought we’d share some of the resources we monitor for up-to-the-minute news (besides Apple Developer Connection, of course). There are several “Live Blog” sites and several Twitter users you can follow for updates: [...]

With over 2 million iPads sold already, what’s your iPad strategy?

We saw an amazing headline this week: “Apple Sells Two Million iPads in Less Than 60 Days”. Which is a pretty amazing feat considering that the iPhone took over 2 quarters (6 months!) to sell that many phones. That’s also counting less than a week in international sales, so that’s mainly in the US. I’ve [...]

Writing testable code

I’ve been looking into some documentation on how testable code should be written. Most of the articles online all say pretty much the same things, but I found one article by Isa Goksu which has quite extensive detail on some points of testing, and also provides several great links to other related articles. He reviews concepts that are closely related [...]