Another month since my last post, and it’s been quite the month. On surveying the ground and the future in regards to my Coding Journey, ultimately resulting in a position accompanied by income, it started to dawn on me that this wasn’t going to happen. Scouring social media and company […]
Once again it’s been quite some time (five weeks) since my last blog post. Getting my head stuck into this app is really making the time fly by unnoticed. Early in September, I noticed that I was really starting to get bogged down in the code. The trouble with “learning […]
The creation of my iPhone app continues apace, and I’m quite impressed with how much I’ve been learning. It’s taking some time to build the app, but I’m taking everything a step at a time and learning as I go. I don’t just want to throw something together and forget […]
Having created the basic guts of my app, using Core Data, and some back-end work, using PHP/MariaDB to generate a JSON file that populates the app, the next stage is to start laying out some screens / views in the app for UX (User Experience). Menu System In looking at […]
Coding is a simple word that means “all other words from now on will be complicated, designed to make you believe that you’re entering a world of the arcane”. And that pretty much sums up “Concurrency”. Why they couldn’t have come up with better and more self-explanatory words to hang […]
It’s been almost a fortnight since my last blog post, but I’ve been pretty busy in the meantime. Since last time, I’ve been working tirelessly on my own app. I’ve used much that I’ve learned from CodeWithChris and Big Mountain Studio to create the “guts” of an app that can […]
The lack of recent blog posts doesn’t mean I’ve been idle for the last ten days. Oh no. Having read through Core Data (Quick Start) in SwiftUI from Big Mountain Studio, I figured that it was about time that I put some of Mark’s teachings into practice. I’ve had an […]
Apple has a reputation for creating products that “just work”, and that may be true if you’re a consumer whose requirements are met by using apps on an iPhone / iPad. However, in order to create apps that “just work”, the App Developer needs to tussle with many things that […]