Tower – the first year

February 13, 2012 by Julian Rothkamp

Time goes by fast if you do something that you really enjoy. We released version 1.0 of our first Mac application Tower exactly one year ago. While we celebrate Tower’s first birthday this February, we would like to take a look back at this exciting year.

 

From paper to Mac OS X

It’s a scary moment when you finally show your app to the world for the very first time. After almost three months in private beta we decided to open the doors and let everybody have a look at Tower and give it a try. Within the next couple of weeks more than 40.000 users downloaded and tested our app. Besides the tons of valuable feedback, bug reports and feature requests we received (thank you!), it was also a confirmation for us that we were heading in the right direction.

 

Tower update v1.2

October 20, 2011 by Julian Rothkamp

We have released version 1.2 of Tower and are really excited about it. This post will give you an overview of what we have been working on lately and what’s included in our latest release.

 

With this release Tower has been updated to v 1.2. Since we didn’t have a bigger release lately, we’d like to let you know what we’ve been working on.
There are tons of new features and improvements in this new release. We will cover only a few of them here. For a full list please check our release notes.

 

Devs on Git #2: An interview with Joel Gascoigne

August 10, 2011 by Julian Rothkamp

Devs on Git is an interview series with developers sharing their insights on version control and Git. Interview #2 features Joel Gascoigne from the UK.

 

Please introduce yourself.

Hi, I’m Joel Gascoigne. I’m a developer who strives to be more than just a developer. I was a freelance developer for around 5 years, and I’ve just quit to go full-time on my latest startup, which is my first real success after a few years of learning through mistakes. I blog about startups, loving what I do and productivity at http://joel.is.

 

 

Devs on Git #1: An interview with Andreas Linde

July 12, 2011 by Julian Rothkamp

Devs on Git is an interview series with developers sharing their insights on version control and Git. Interview #1 features Andreas Linde from Germany.

 


Please introduce yourself.

My name is Andreas Linde. I studied Communication Engineering at the polytechnic university in Furtwangen, Germany, and worked over ten years as a software developer and project manager in some well known German software companies.

Since December 2010 I am working as a freelancer developing software. Besides that I created various open source projects, QuincyKit and HockeyKit, that improve various aspects for software developers on the Mac and iOS and I am currently working on a full web service, HockeyApp, for those.

 

Git Cheat Sheet

June 29, 2011 by Julian Rothkamp

We are giving away some nice stuff: our brand new Git cheat sheet to everyone and Tower shirts, stickers and more to a few lucky winners.

 

Even with a GUI application at hand there are times when you resort to the command line. We admit we can’t memorize all important Git commands – that’s why we created a nice cheat sheet for Git that we would like to share with you. On the front you can find all important commands. On the back you can find our Version Control Best Practices that help you get the most out of version control with Git.

 

Ready for take-off

June 21, 2011 by Julian Rothkamp

Hello and welcome to our brand new blog. It’s been on our list of things to do for quite a while, so we are really excited to finally launch it.

 

 

Lots of exciting things happened since we started fournova in 2010. We started working full time on our first app Tower which we launched in February. The following five months have simply been awesome. We still have so many ideas for Tower and will release some nice updates over the summer.