Looking at this year’s design finalists – I’ve only used three of them. Let’s see if they win. https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/ The three I’ve used or played are Wylde Flowers (an enjoyable game), Vectornator: Vector Design (for vector graphics editing), and Lego Star Wars: Castaways (another game). Great quotes from the video: Love the idea that Design […]
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State of the Platforms
This is a raw notes post.. if I get things wrong.. please let me know! As I am consuming the firehose today. After many network issues here at home, I was able to get to the State of the Platforms keynote. While I had seen little of the hype at the beginning before losing network […]
WWDC 2022 – Keynotes
Every year I take an “Education-Vacation” to coincide with WWDC. I was lucky enough back in 2018 and 2019 to actually go to WWDC in person. Over the last few years it has all been virtual. At times WWDC has blown my mind like the dragon in my favorite WWDC shirt. As I get ready […]
Heading Down to the wire
Well, I thought I had the last major bug figured out, but it was still there. So back to the drawing board. This is a bit of an insidious problem since it causes unexpected changes to the data. In order to keep from corrupting my testers data, I have not released any of my interim […]
Fixing a major bug in beta software
I’ve been working on my card tracking app for some time. I have been using it for approximately 4 years to track my own holiday cards, so there’s tons of data stored in my alpha and beta version. Today I finally figured out the last major bug, before I look to posting it to the […]
Debugging Camera Issues
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 […]
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 – […]