Hello Internet: MicroCell
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Thoughts on my new AT&T MicroCell.
Web App vs Native App
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This is the age old question for app developers. To state my bias, I make a living creating mostly native app and the occasional web app, but I greatly prefer working on native apps. I'll be referring to iOS devices for all of this, but it applies to the Mac (sorta, see the end), Android, and almost any other platform.
We can all agree that native apps have a much better experience than web apps, especially on slower devices (like the iPhone). Pull up your contacts in your iPhone and flick through them really fast. See how smooth that was. Now pull up any website and do the same. Not so smooth. Checkout Cover Flow in the iPod app. Amazing, right? Show me a website that does that that smooth. You can't.
The reason that native apps greatly out perform web apps is that there is a lot more processing power used to render website than it is to render native apps because they are... well, native. Websites need to run through some sort of engine, in this case WebKit, to convert them to something that can be used by the device.
Hello Internet: Throwback Mountian Dew
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Throwback Mountian Dew is the best beverage ever created.
Thoughts On Writing Code For Money
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So writing code is a very intimate thing. You spend hours and hours thinking very hard about a problem and then finally solve it. Once you do, you work out all of the bugs and such. After tons of hard work, you finally have something you're proud of that can be released or used with other code someone else has worked very hard one.
This is a special thing to me. I really enjoy this process. Everything about it is great. The problem solving, the perfecting, the design, everything.
I don't know how I feel about selling this. I mean, I just labored away on this code and I'm really proud of it. I understand that I can sell the rights to someone to use, which is fine. It just feels wrong to have worked on something for a really long time and then someone else owns it and I'm not allowed to do anything with something that I made. I know that the money is the trade off. It just feels like I made a baby then sold that baby.
On My Own Again
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So if you remember, I wrote a blog post about a year ago about life and such. I quit my job and then freelanced for a bit. After doing that for a bit and hating it, I started working at Tasteful Works. It's been a good ride here at Tasteful Works, but August 31 is my last day. Still friends with those guys. Quality dudes.
I'm already booked for the next 3+ months with a lot of iPad and Rails work. It's for a client or I'd say more. It's a really cool project. After that, I'll be doing looking for some contract projects and work on my own stuff.
I plan to focus more on fun open source projects now that I'm my own. I already have a bunch of stuff started on my GitHub account, but more on that later. It will also be good to have more time for music and life in general.