Jonathan Stark

Mobile strategy, training, and development.

Why Apple Rejected Tweeps

I recently wrote a book for O’Reilly that teaches web designers and developers how to build native iPhone apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript instead of Objective-C. One of the chapters covers PhoneGap, which is an open source project that allows you to embed a web app inside of a native app. Among other things, [...]

How I Realized that Hourly Billing is Nuts: The Story of Fred and Barney

This post is the first installment in a weekly series on value based billing for software projects as previously described here.
In this post, I’m going to walk you through the real-life situation that made me realize that something was fundamentally wrong with the concept of billing software projects by the hour.