My First Big Mobile App (2008)  

Welcome to my vanity site. The main purpose of this site, other than to have a use for the family domain I purchased in the early years of the Internet, is to park a couple of seminal documents that I keep handing out to folks by way of mentorship in a wonderful career that continues to bring me the joy of learning and creativity as well as a livlihood. 

The first is an original compilation of "proverbs" distilled from more than 50 years of "moving one's and zero's from here to there and often transforming them enroute." To the best of my knowledge they are entirely original with me and not just some rehash of "Murphy's Laws" and the like. The first law was coined back in the early 1980's shortly after the advent of the PC as a result of a lot of consulting development work. Since then, I've added nine more. Enjoy!        

The second is a discussion I keep having with managers looking for "silver bullets" in the pursuit of mobile application development. I found myself encountering the topic over and over again in meetings where some well meaning soul would propose some new "shortcut" tool for development and I decided to just put it all down in a whitepaper of sorts.  

I was a charter developer back in 2008 when Apple first opened up the iPhone to native development (Objective-C, now Swift). Since then I've lost count of the number of mobile development projects I've done. The first commercial app I published back in August of 2008 just one month after Apple launched the App Store. It and many others (including a number of "ghost written" apps) helped put my kids through college. Mobile device integration remains my "first love" in app development.