iPhone App Developer Spotlight: Barry Schwartz and Siddur

Another in my continuing iPhone App Developer Spotlight series, brought to you by The Business Blog @ Intuitive.com Q: You wrote Siddur. How long did it take you? How many lines of code is the program? Written in what language? Objective C, using the Cocoa. It took us about two weeks to launch with limited features, but we are currently on our fourth week of development. It is a lot of time, if I had to guess, 200 - 300 hours, so far. The lines of code, about 9,000 so far, specifically 1164 header file lines 7378 implementation lines. Q: The iPhone Software Development Kit has been written about quite a bit, but I’d like to know your opinion: was it easy to get up to speed with this SDK? Is it sufficiently complete that you weren’t stumped as you developed your application? It was a bit difficult to get started, but once you get to learn all the rules, it moves smoothly. There is a lack of documentation out there, since it is so new. But after w...