WOW! I excited to announced that Wasted Time for the Apple Watch is now available. While there is one bug I need to squash, I would love it people would down load it. The bug is that the cost information is not being saved, but if you don’t kill the app you will be OK. […]
Author: Michael Rowe
Summer activities and Betas
Over the last almost two month I’ve been staying crazy busy, at work (the day job), at my non-profit (the opera group), and dealing with problems in the various Apple betas from this summer. The biggest issue of the Apple betas has been my experience with Catalina. While Catalina itself hasn’t been a big user […]
Making Progress – Stand alone Watch App
I’ve been working on learning SwiftUI and Combine. I figured the best way to do this was to completely re-write wasted time as a native stand alone watch app. To begin with I am working on the main Meeting screen. The following video shows how cool SwiftUI is in making this UI just “work” on […]
WWDC Wrap up
I decided to wait a week to write my WWDC wrap up, not because I’ve not had any time to write it due to the day job, non-profit work, and dealing with the WWDC Flu (okay that’s most of the reason), but also to give me time to reflect on all the things I saw […]
WWDC Day Four – Long, Fun Day
Thursday at WWDC ends with the “Bash”. This year the band was Weezer. I’ve liked their music in the past, and they were enjoyable. I didn’t stay for the entire show, since I was tired after an incredibly long day of really good sessions. Oh yeah, and I was carrying my book bag, which was […]
WWDC Day Three (AKA Wednesday)
Today turned into a pretty productive day. After the problems of Monday and the recoveries of yesterday, I was looking forward to a day when I could just enjoy the sessions an and possibly take to the labs to figure things out. I began the day with a session on Sign-In with Apple. I am […]
WWDC Day Two – Continued
Well, the team at the install lab were awesome. I wish I had left the machine alone when it went belly up, for multiple reasons. One, I would have spent most of Monday night getting frustrated, I wouldn’t have lost any data, and I would have given them a problem to debug. Instead, I got […]
WWDC Day Two (early morning)
(7am Tuesday) There are a few things I forgot to mention yesterday: TestFlight updates: I use TestFlight to both test apps from others, and to test apps that I’ve written. The cool update is now you can have test flight ask for feedback. The way that this is supposed to work is, if the user […]
WWDC Day 1 – Awesome Woes
WWDC is designed for developers, and this year’s keynote didn’t miss. I arrived shortly after 6 am, and ended up pretty far back in the queue, but as always, Apple does a great job of moving every one thru. The four hour wait didn’t seem as along, and the discussions in the queue were fun […]
Getting Ready for WWDC
The trip yesterday was long but uneventful, unless you count the 1/3 of the continental United States that had turbulence enough to stop all cabin service, and keep EVERYONE in their seats for about 90 minutes. However, the view was amazing: Got to San Jose this morning After a late night arrival, grabbing a car, […]