iPhone Stuff
This weekend has been freakin gorgeous! Sun, no humidity, light breeze. Just exactly the kind of days you'd want to really enjoy because you know they won't really last much longer....or at least thats what I think it was like as I looked out the window.
I spent almost the whole weekend so far coding. The goal is to make a few iPhone apps worthy of the app store. I have a couple of good, simple ideas and now I have to make sure I don't lose momentum. The learning curve for the SDK is significant. Objective C is not completely intuitive. The IDE takes a bit of getting used to, no... a LOT of getting used to. You think it's doing a lot of magic when you drag/drop controls (i.e. Visual Basic) but there are critical lines of code you must write by hand in the behind-the-scenes controller to make it work.
So 2 books, a handful of tutorials, and at least a dozen disposable apps titled deleteme1, deleteme2, deleteme3 later, I can now write simple ugly apps with the most basic controls and I can make stuff happen. The next step is to make something attractive and usable!
Now I have to go finish digging a hole, filling it with stone, mow at least a little, run, and then go to a meeting at 6PM!
I spent almost the whole weekend so far coding. The goal is to make a few iPhone apps worthy of the app store. I have a couple of good, simple ideas and now I have to make sure I don't lose momentum. The learning curve for the SDK is significant. Objective C is not completely intuitive. The IDE takes a bit of getting used to, no... a LOT of getting used to. You think it's doing a lot of magic when you drag/drop controls (i.e. Visual Basic) but there are critical lines of code you must write by hand in the behind-the-scenes controller to make it work.
So 2 books, a handful of tutorials, and at least a dozen disposable apps titled deleteme1, deleteme2, deleteme3 later, I can now write simple ugly apps with the most basic controls and I can make stuff happen. The next step is to make something attractive and usable!
Now I have to go finish digging a hole, filling it with stone, mow at least a little, run, and then go to a meeting at 6PM!