dchoung

I'm almost set to release my first iOS app.

It's the simplest thing I could think of putting together.

When I started off I had plenty of grandiose app ideas, but they were much too complex for my current understanding of that dreaded bracket forest that is called Objective-C. So, rather than spending a few more months trying to comprehend the deeper meanings of the Objective-C syntactical universe (which I feel I will eventually have to... ) I just decided to put together the simplest app I could think of, and what did I come up with? Timestamp 2000 for iOS, of course. Hey, it worked on webOS, I thought, why not just port it over?

Timestamp 2000 is simple because all it does is utilize the device's time, parses it out a bit to differentiate between 12-hour and 24-hour, and then outputs the results for copying to the clipboard. Clearly, this isn't rocket science.

I'm sure at some point I'll open source the code, but any seasoned iOS coder can probably whip this thing together in no time, and probably with more efficient code!

I'll probably put together a later post on the glories and headaches of developing for the webOS and iOS platforms, because they've definitely got plenty of both.