Done, finally, or is it just a begining?

So last night Apple finished processing my contract, and its robots accepted my application for review. I'm about 3 months late, but my app is done. By done, I don't mean that it is finished, but that the first full commercial ready release has been made. My hope is that I will begin to garner some success, and then follow up with more and better releases. All done in my two hour train rides to and from my real work.

Its been a heck of a ride, especially the last few months where real work has been sucking all the room out of my schedule leaving me fewer and fewer hours to work on my app, and the attention my app needed was more then just the one hour intervals could provide. Fixing a defect can take hours of analysis, especially when they are broken up over 5 days. The few last minute problems were all paper work, and graphical, my icon fought me for days, and required external help from Alex before I beat it in to shape. I don't like the final look of the icon, but dammit I decided release the damn app and fix the icon in a future release. Here it is in its fully res glory, and I won't shame myself here with the cruddite version embedded in my app:



For those who haven't seen it, here is a peak into my app:





What the heck is this? Well for those who are D&D 3.5 players out their, this is a spellbook of all the freely available d20 SRD spells. Its a life saver at the game table where I can look things up quickly with out digging through a book. There are a lot of features I intend to add (hides future features from prying eyes of competition) but those will come later.

In the mean time, I plan to sit back for a few weeks, knit a pair of socks (cast them on this morning,) get http://www.rpgtouch.com up and running, and do a whole heck of a lot of work-work in my spare time ):

Probably going to blog a bit more as well, but as always I won't make any promises.

Anyways trains in the stations ttyl.

Sheepy Quilt

Here is the quilt I mentioned a few posts back, here are the squares that are done, I have two others in partial complete states.

Socks!

 

So here is my active project, just some fun socks. They are my first two-tone socks, and they are working out okay. I need to start working my socks toe up, so I know exactly how much extra yarn I have for cuff, and stop having little leftover balls.

Kick Ass Knitting Bag

Ooookay, so this is a little kn-nerdy, but listening to It's Purl Man this morning and he mentioned a knitting bag, so I decided I would check it out, and I want it, no NEED it!

So knitting isn't exactly the most macho of train activities, but most knitting bags would make it even less so. But this actually accents my Crumpler bag nicely, and is awesomely functional. Check it out, I think it is called the SoYouCanKnit: Swift from Tom Bihn.

Am I Ahead of the Sock Curve?

So I caught the headline of this story on the train, and I had to find it online. Apparently bold socks are good, so I guess I'm in good standing.