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It’s been a little over 4 months of development for my iPhone app. This does not mean just coding for the iPhone app but also working on the back-end server side, creating an API for Skatr to use, and later \u00c2\u00a0become a public API for others to consume.<\/p>\n
Things I did for the 4 months of development.<\/strong><\/p>\n First month<\/strong>, Start from scratch to rewrite www.skatr.us from PHP over to Ruby using the Merb Framework. Although that went short after the announcement of Merb & Rails merge. I figured I needed to port things over to Rails now because eventually Merb will be less supported and the other reason was I already know Rails and Merb was sometimes challenging because I did not know it.<\/p>\n Second Month<\/strong>, Write lots of code to port it form Merb over to Rails and Begin writing the API that will be consumed by Skatr. Also go shopping for a Web Host to host the Web App. I started to re-read books I had on Objective-C and Cocoa and bought a few books and screencasts on iPhone development and paid $99 to Apple to be part of the iPhone Developer program. Started writing code for Skatr.<\/p>\n Third Month<\/strong>, Write Ruby Code and Objective-C code for Skatr Web and Skatr iPhone, Also make a ton of google searches to learn how things are done in iPhone land.<\/p>\n Fourth Month<\/strong>, Complete writing Skatr for iPhone and the web API for Skatr.<\/p>\n It was actually a lot of work doing all this considering I was working at my full-time job and not just a 8 hour job but a few days with emergency releases working over 10 hours. Also to mention it takes me almost a little under 2 hours to commute from work to home because of traffic and then I would continue with my iPhone app till usually around 12:00 AM sometimes 1:00 AM and other days when literally my eyelids where already closed and realizing I’m sleeping and I need to go to bed. It was very tiring. Then wake up early for work and continue the same pattern for about 4 months.<\/p>\n Now that Skatr is completed. I’ve submitted it to Apple, hoping it does not get rejected. Let’s see what happens now. Then hopefully take a vacation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a little over 4 months of development for my iPhone app. This does not mean just coding for the iPhone app but also working on the back-end server side, creating an API for Skatr to use, and later \u00c2\u00a0become a public API for others to consume. Things I did for the 4 months […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,6,53,9,21,19,63],"tags":[76,116,121,77,115,122,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fernyb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fernyb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fernyb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fernyb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fernyb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/fernyb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"http:\/\/fernyb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fernyb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fernyb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fernyb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}