I realize that my design is not always intuitive so I decided to put together a simple (ha!) video of how my latest app works. The app is both simple and powerful. The basic premise is you have control of what types of cards (or events) you’d like to track. You create your own galleries […]
Category: Personal – Software and IT
WWDC 2024 Impressions and insights
As expected, WWDC 24 was all about AI. Of course we are talking about “Apple Intelligence”. This week is my yearly “education-vacation” and it has been overwhelming in the complexity of some of the sessions I have gone through. While most of the keynote was about cool new features and better integrations of App Intents […]
A VisionPro-ductive Week
It’s been a solid week now with the Apple Vision Pro. When I got it last Saturday, I provided a before and after view of the experience as part of my Weekly Podcasts Games At Work dot Biz (you can find it here Episode 452 – Before and After ). Since then, in order to […]
Always learning new things
Yesterday I went to #Unwrap Live 2024. This online, all day, SwiftUI programming class by Paul Hudson from Hacking With Swift fame, was all about the Apple Vision Pro this year. I love the way Paul explains code, techniques, and APIs. The other valuable thing is, he is willing to rathole on a question that […]
Wasted Time Pro – Launch Date
Well, I’ve finally done it. I have submitted an app that will launch on the same day as a new piece of Apple hardware. I have taken my simple application – Wasted Time, and did a total re-write over the last year to better take advantage of SwiftUI and the latest Swift APIs. I changed […]
SwiftData / SwiftUI Combo Frustrations
The last few posts have been about my re-write of my personal application to address greeting cards. This has been a very frustrating effort as I’ve tried to restructure the app’s UI to better adhere to Apple’s design principles in order to allow the user edit both a recipient’s Address and to add their own […]
Card Tracker Rewrite Update
This weekend I had a major milestone of the rewrite. All features are working (except edits). I was successful in adding a new feature of allowing for looking at all the cards sent for a specific event, i.e. Show me all the Christmas cards by date and recipient. This new feature is something I’ve been […]
Card Tracker ReWrite
For the last five years or so, I’ve been working on a pet project to track the various greeting cards we send out each year. The initial version had a lot of UI problems, so I used it as an opportunity to learn SwiftUI. The second major rewrite was to add CloudKit integration so that […]
Deletes in Holiday Card Tracker
I’ve been working on a Greeting Card tracking app, in my spare time for years now, five to be exact. I may get it on the App Store one day, but primarily it is just used to track the cards my wife and I send to friends and family. I’ve re-written it a few times, […]
Wasted Time’s Latest Rewrite
As is my habit each summer after WWDC, I rewrite my Wasted Time app to try and take advantage of the latest changes for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. This summer has been no difference; however, I also took some time to completely refactor the application to no longer use the AppDelegate feature of older […]