For the last 12 years or so, I’ve really enjoyed playing with the various beta’s of Apple’s operating systems. Discovering new features, and updating my apps each summer have been a great way to keep my technological skills current, while scratching the itch to write code. I’ve had good summers and bad summers, based on […]
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Podcasting and iPhone 12 Pro Max
Before I get start talking about my new iPhone 12 Pro Max, I wanted to show you the podcast that I do: Apple’s podcast system now allows me to create an embedded for this website. Let me know what you think of the episode. Now we can start talking about the iPhone 12 Pro Max.
What is a Senior Technical Staff Member?
I’ve been working at IBM for almost 25 years now! During that time I have spent my career going back and forth between the technical and business paths. I’ve done that because I really don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. I love learning and at various times technology had more […]
Getting back to Wasted Time
I’ve finally gotten back to Wasted Time app for the Mac. Having figured out much of the issues with packaging for including the Mac version as part of a bundle. Now if you’ve paid the $0.00 for your copy of Wasted Time on iOS or tvOS, you will have a copy of Wasted Time for […]
WWDC 2021 Day 1
I never learn. Each year I love the start of WWDC: The excitement of what is new, the demos of how Apple sees features working, and the inevitable download of new tools, apps, and operating systems. And this year, like WWDC19, something goes wrong. I picked up the new iPad Pro 11inch (with the M1), […]
Getting ready for WWDC 2021
While sitting at home and watching a live streams for 8 hours a day all week, is not the same as being at WWDC in person, I am really looking forward to see what Apple introduces this year. To prepare this year, I am doing the same as I did last year. I have setup […]
WWDC 2021 Prediction
Wow, it’s already the end of May, and my last blog post was in February. Time sure flies when you work from home. Before WWDC happens this year I wanted to document my expectation. I talked about it during my podcast a few weeks ago, and even went out and bought a new iPad Pro […]
Wasted Time Updates!
This past weekend I released updates to both WastedTime and WastedTime Watch. For WastedTime it was a minor bug fix, you can no longer end a meeting before it starts. Who would have thought of that one?! For WastedTime Watch, this was the total re-write I was working on. It is now much more colorful […]
WastedTime Watch – Progress
Ok, I had basically gotten frustrated trying to change WastedTime Watch to a fully SwiftUI based app. Apple changed the App Entry point which had completely changed how the AppDelegate function worked. I thought this app was the simplest of my apps, so I could easily convert it to the new Swift Architecture. Boy was […]
Holiday Card App Update
Well, it has been three years in the making, and I am finally starting to feel that this app may be ready. I’ve not had much time to work on it over the three years, but I’ve used this app to learn CoreData and CloudKit. On Christmas Day, I finally broke through and fixed my […]