Saturday, September 27, 2008

iPhone Development 1.0

Okay, just to introduce myself, My name is Matthew Schwade, I am 29 years old and reside in the state of Ohio (U.S.A.).  I am a jack of all trades, but mostly I consider myself a programmer, developer, and a journalist.  Yes, that's right: I write and I write code :)  

I've been a Windows guy my entire life, until I got my first iPhone.  My Blackberry was a royal pain in the arse for the last four or five months I had it. I am not quite sure how I even dealt with it for as long as I did, but I couldn't even scroll down with the trackball during that timeframe!!!  I guess you'll put up with just about anything when you have a lot of bills and can't afford a new phone.

But, my beautiful wife finally said enough is enough on July 24, 2008, and surprised me and got me my first iPhone as a gift :)  It didn't take long for me to fall in love with it and see how superior it was to the BlackBerry Pearl and I can't say enough about it today as a happy iPhone owner :)

So Labor Day weekend, my IBM ThinkPad decides to randomly reboot itself a dozen or so times before my wife says Let's go look at computers.  I had been talking about getting a Mac, so we ended up going to BestBuy and it didn't take for me to get talked into getting a MacBook.  It's different, overall I like it a lot, but I have to admit it gets frustrating at times after being on Windows for virtually my entire life.

So here I am today, Saturday, September 27, 2008, authoring my first blog as my MacBook is actively downloading the SDK for iPhone Development.  I haven't even brainstormed what kind of applications I'd like to create, but if there is one thing I am good at, it's using my imagination  and my noodle.  So stay posted and you'll get to see my maturation process hopefully into an Apple recognized App Developer!