About
Jason Terhorst is a software designer/developer, hailing from the Chicago area. He specializes in Mac and iPhone native software development, with experience in open-source Mac developer kits, and an iPhone software application that is now available on Apple's iPhone AppStore, as well as an award-winning web site.
Software
Touchlytics
Solo project: Developed and marketed by me. Development is finished, and hype has been generated. It will appear in the store when Apple approves it for sale. See a preview and more details at touchlyticsapp.com.
Open Source: iMediaBrowser
This was a project I started independently. There was a need for Cocoa developers to be able to have a "Media Browser" like the one Apple uses in its own iLife and iWork software. I wrote the initial XML parsing code (for iTunes and iPhoto) and figured out how to open the iMovie 4 and 5 project files to get at the contents, and tied it all together in a panel that looked much like Apple's own. After that, I posted it to the CocoaDev wiki, to allow others to submit improvements. Greg Hulands and Blake Seely took the code and improved upon it, adding a plug-in architecture. Karelia Software now manages the project (they took it over when I went off to college, and because they have the server resources), and it remains BSD-licensed and open-source, per my original request. You can find it in Google Code.
More on the way...
I'm working on another project (hush-hush right now), and I'll post more about it when it nears completion.
Current Work
iPhone: helloCards
Contracted by LuxiousLabs This clever greeting cards app allows users to take their own picture from their photo library or camera, drop in some text, and send the card to anyone via email. Check out the helloCards web site at luxiouslabs.com for more details about this cool new entry to the App Store!
iPhone: ABA Journal News Reader
I did this one on my own time, for fun. I got quite a bit of practice in with the iPhone, and to test my knowledge with NSXMLParser (the only good Apple-provided XML class on iPhone), I built a news reader for ABAJournal.com. I already had some RSS feeds at my disposal, so I just have the app grab those over Wifi or EDGE, and display their contents. As of July 23, you can download it from the AppStore! (iTunes required)
Web: abajournal.com
I've maintained and helped grow and improve this web presence for the past year (it just celebrated its one-year anniversary on July 23rd), and we've already received a "People's Voice Webby Award" for it. Thanks to everyone who voted!
Features I developed: Polls, photo galleries, The Annual "Blawg 100" voting page (and other occasional voting features), and special custom features for the monthly ABA Journal magazine posted online. In addition, I carry any designs over from the print magazine to the web. The designs are unique, but tie together with the print version quite well.
Contact
How to get in touch with me
phone: 312-316-0645
aim/iChat: helvetica979
skype: helvetica979
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