I’ve been using my Card Tracking App in ernest lately, and have come a cross a strange bug. When I am taking a picture with the camera of a card from within the app, saving the card event occurs, but the image is not saved, while sometimes the whole save fails. This seems to have […]
Category: Personal – Software and IT
A potential plan for 2022
As I mentioned a while back, I took on a much more technical role in my day job recently. I am working on IBM’s “Engineering Lifecycle Management” product offering as a solution architect. My primary focus is on our reusable components, which includes many of our APIs. APIs are the building blocks of modern applications, […]
2022 – Code and Cloud
Well, made it thru to another year. 2022 seems to be starting with the same hope and courage of 2021, let’s hope it ends on a better note. I’ve been working on a Card Tracking app for a few years. It started as a project to hope me learn CoreData, I then pivoted to learn […]
Update on Holiday Card Tracker
A few years back I started an app that I was thinking of calling Christmas card tracker. The goal of the app was to learn Core Data. I spent time at WWDC working with a fellow attendee to fix problems I was having with Autolayout constraints, and got an early version working enough to where […]
Wasted Time for macOS updated
I just got notified that Wasted Time for macOS has made it thru the App Store review process. That means both the iOS and macOS versions have now been updated to support multiple languages. I am really excited by this and hope to add more languages as I go forward. Currently, the app supports – […]
App Store rejection
Well, Apple seems to have turned the screws tighter on this build of Wasted Time for the Mac. While I’ve had this out for a while, they noticed that if you closed the main window, there was no way to get it back. So the suggestion is to either add a Cmd-N (for new window) […]
Localization and Internationalization
I’ve not had too much time to be able to work on my apps lately, even though I’ve been using my Holiday card tracker app a lot lately. It can be frustrating not to have the time to really dedicate learning new capabilities and APIs. On top of that, the paid (day) job has gotten […]
Summer 2021 WWDC Impacts
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 […]
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 […]