Posts Tagged iphone
Ah, Rejection
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on April 29th, 2009
Oh well, apparently due to ” minimal user functionality” my phonewhale app doesn’t pass muster. Sorry Apple, I figured that in a world where there are how many metric tons of apps based solely on your ‘level’ example that minimal might be OK. I get it though. PhoneWhale was mainly about amusing my collegues, and learning. I’m gonna work on a few more ideas, something a bit less minimal.
First app submitted to the app store.
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on April 25th, 2009
W
ell, PhoneWhale has been submitted to the app store. It’s a simple application, little more than a hello world. It consists of a whale, drawn by Julianna, traced to vector art by me. You touch the whale, you hear a foghorn, you touch her mouth (trust me, it has to be a female, or should I say feWhale), you hear a groaning appology. Pretty simple really. It’s free, and up for approval. I’d like to enhance it with more sounds, animation, and maybe a feed of stupid stuff other people say, but for now it’s out there. I bought PhoneWhale.com, which is an extremely simple site, and will probably always remain so.
I’ve got an asp.net mvc app I’m working on, as well as another few iPhone apps I’d like to write. Also, the format of this blog changed, I’ve consolidated all my hosting under one account.
Man I never blog…
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on April 14th, 2009
So, what the heck has been happening in my life:
- I’m still happily married, still have two kids
- I still work at Toolbox.com, still digging it
- I twitter a few times a day, and post here a few times a year. that’s bad. I should work on that.
- I have been getting back to working out two or four times a week, but haven’t been on a bike outdoors in way too long.
- I read In Defense of Food, a really interesting look into the ‘Wester Diet’ that I’m trying to follow. Probably a blog post in its own right.
- I bought an iMac.
- I just signed up for the iPhone Dev program.
Yeah, those last three are pretty significant for me technically. See I’ve been a windows programmer my whole career. I’ve written CA-Clipper dbase apps, Win32 apps, MFC, Atl, console, .Net C# winforms, Asp.Net, etc. I’ve dabbled in php and perl, but by and large, I’m a windows Dev. So why the switch?
Here’s the thing: When I come home, or when I get a call from my wife, I don’t want to worry about who clicked on what email in outlook, or surfed by a hacked site with drive by download code. No thank you. I’ve played with Apple hardware before, my dad has had them, and I’ve had the odd g5 or mac book pro on my desk at work from time to time, but never as a primary box, and certainly never to code on.
This Mac flies. The simple tasks that should be simple, but aren’t in Windows, are simple on this. All my usb stuff works, the backup utility (time machine) is actually fun to use, safari and Firefox work great, and Parallels emulation actually runs windows vista and my quicken install faster than my previous three year old Dell, and lets me code windows apps when I want to. The Dell has been re-purposed as an edubuntu / ubuntu running a proxy/filtering/firewall solution, sitting in my daughters room. It runs ubuntu a heck of a lot better than it ever ran windowsXPMCE.
So tonight I was working on an iPhone app that uses the built in accelerometer, but the iPhone simulator, while really useful in other respects, doesn’t support simulating the accelerator. So I applied for the developer program. Yes it’s 99 dollars, and yes, I probably won’t see a profit on the next great iPhone app (although given what sells, maybe my stupid ideas aren’t that terrible). But I figure getting a bit of skin in the game will make me committed to actually developing something saleable, and at the worst, I’ll have a cost of doing business to use at tax time.