My First iPhone App – gCalWall – just got approved!
My first iPhone app just got approved for sale in the AppStore! I’m frickin excited! Talk about a long process though. Longer for me than many others I’m sure because it took a lot of reading and a lot of learning, but I got it done so the goal has been achieved.
More important than just the app, I guess this validates for me that you can teach an old dog new tricks… a couple months ago the closest I’d come to programming in many, many years was some simple VBScript stuff, and the minor bit of PHP/HTML I have to maintain at JAMM. So, naturally I need to send a HUGE thanks out to all the folks who have taken the time to write tutorials for beginners, the folks who’ve written the books (specifically Erica Sadun, Dave Mark/Jeff LaMarche), and everyone whose taken time to reply to noob questions on forums. There’s a serious wealth of information out there for a beginning programmer and its all come to life in a matter of months – so THANKS!
Alright, almost done with my shameless plug. I’m really looking forward to sharing this experience with everybody as its been very exciting, from the learning a whole new language, thinking through how things should work, writing the code, troubleshooting and beta testing… There’s a ton of stuff to cover so keep an eye on the site as I’ll be covering a lot of that stuff very soon.
gCalWall goes on sale on Wednesday the 25th (I’ll post a link when it goes up) … but for now here’s some more information on the app! I’ll be posting a video demo of the app on Wednesday (on that page) as well so you can see how it works. Alright … I’m off to go do a happy dance!
EDIT: gCalWall is now available on the App Store!
CONGRATS mate! That is superb news. You should feel hugely proud of doing this. Old dogs don’t tend to learn well – I know that first hand. Maybe you’re a little younger dawg than you figured.
Well done Brandon …
Congrats, Brandon! I can’t wait for you to do an exclusive review
I think this is going to be the closest you come to an “exclusive” review from me. I’m taking the don’t hammer-the-heck out my own stuff approach to talking about it on the sites I write for. Granted I’ll be doing some posts about the process and mentioning the app(s) but they’ll be mentioned as part of the article and that’s about it. I’ve submitted for reviews with Doug and Patrick and sent a request to Dan over at WOiP as well so hopefully they’ll do reviews – but they’ve also been instructed to treat this just like any other app review.