Category Archives: Programming

NAL-Lander it is live

 New Apps Yeah actually writing more apps

Let me tell you about it.

Ok this is about the work I’ve been doing lately, have been very productive in regards to the writing Ios Apps.   However, have not gotten my password keeper working like I wanted,  So that is taking more time.  
I guess this is what I get for working on 3 apps on the same time.  Ok maybe working on 2 apps at the same time.  The NAL lander is all ready in the app store.  
 

NAL-Lander,

  It is in the store ready to be sold, but the only person who bought it is me.  That is so sad, well I do like it.  There is more work for it.  It was one of those things where I had to put on the store, was so stuck not getting any work done, so any movement is helpful.

The other two are MorseCode-Decoder and MyPassword
 
MorseCode-Decoder is really a fun project to work on.  There is so much stuff going on with it.  I’m finding this is so far a positive learning experience.  Doing different type of programming, Multi threading, encrypting (simple, however it is still encryption)  Using other parts of the phone and iPad, doing SMS.  Hopefully will get it out soon.
The whole idea of this app goes back to a time long ago.  I don’t know about you, but there where times as a kid would try to send messages back on forth to other kids in the neighborhood.  Much to our frustration it never worked.  
We came up with all these complicated messaging systems.  They were so complicated, we gave up after the first night.  So, this has been on my mind for a long time.  It is something I would have liked to have when I was kid.


The Password Keeper this has been around for a while however finally adding some functionality that is long overdue.  Updated it and adding functionality to restore saved passwords.  Have the logic figure out just have to add it and implement the saving the data.  May have add new methods to modularize that part of the app.  If I do that should make it much more solid.


Don’t have a title for this blog post, because, I make this stuff up. Oh yeah it will be about programming or something like that.

 My mind is blank, maybe that is a good place to start.

 

 

Ok it has been a while since working on this blog, like 13 years, when I got my first Mac Book, which by the way still have, it is actually a good computer. As Gomer Pyle would say “Surprise Surprise Surprise.”

So what am I going to write, well that is something we all want to know especially me. 

Oh yeah, now I remember, it is about programming or something like that.

Started
creating apps again.  Have a few apps out there now, NAL-Lander,  NAL
stands for Not Atari Lander.  Clever huh.  And I’m working on my
password keeper, called MyP@ssword, ahh, not so clever, however it is
rather a clever app, it actually generates passwords for you.  And on
top of that they are random.  Now that is clever. 

Also what I’m working also is a Morse Code Decoder, it will take a
message somebody will type in the top text field, convert it to morse
code.  However that is not all of it.  You can actually enter morse code
in another screen and send back to the main screen and it will
translate that to a message.  Of course you need to enter valid morse
code, other wise you will get a message full of <ERR>.  Another
thing that has been added, there is a encoder / Decoder, kind of like a
decoder ring.  It somewhat acts like the one you see in the Movie
“Christmas Story”.  So what it will do is take an message and convert it
to a encrypted message, or decrypt it when you send it one. 

 

I know wow that is a lot, well that is not all, what the app has also, will sound out Morse Code with dits and dahs.  Again Wow, that is so much, yes, it is, however there is more, it will use the light on your phone and send Morse code messages.  Yes, that is right it will blink Morse Code.  You may be asking does it include the kitchen sink?  Who knows, there may be a  future surprise.

So why am I doing this, that is a good question.  What I’m doing is dialoging the process of developing apps.  Well I was going to just say Apple apps, since this is on a Google blog site, don’t want to offend the people in Google.  However, what the Heck, yes I am writing iOS apps, for the Apple environment.  Whew, boy do I feel better saying that.  Don’t know if I’m going to put any of it on Android, right now the Apps store will carry my apps.  Freedom, boy that feels good to just be honest.

Okay, back to what I was going to say, want to dialog what I’m doing during the development cycle, either that that feeling of failure of not being able to do something simple or just victories of figuring a problem out.