iPhone Development

Well over on my main blog (whitespider1066.com) there is a semi development diary for an iPhone app I am writing going on. The app I am writing is for lovers of the outdoors, and will allow them to fetch the mountain weather reports that are produced for hill walkers and also the avalanche warnings that are also given into one place instead of having to visit a couple of sites and hunt the information down.

I try not to get too techie on there, well I know it is being read by none techie folks.

This iPhone app is my first and a learning experience. My references during this learning curve are “iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide”, and “Programming in Objective-C 2.0”. But along with the printed written word, I am using the Winter and Autumn 2010 Stanford iPhone Programming lectures from iTunes U, and the Apple Developer documents (which I download as pdf’s to refer to later offline).

I really can’t praise Stanford University enough though for putting up the lectures that they do. They are a fantastic resource for learning from.

Now I have to say that I am enjoying the coding (it’s nice to be doing it for fun again, but that’s another story). I have ideas and notes for a couple of further apps. And I will start them once I have released this first project. Not decided which will be the first yet.