3.23.2015

Well here it is a week later and I have made some major moves to the working product. I can say that the basic structure and workings of the app, which is a food based diary, will be up and running way before June. Probably not by the end of the month, but things are moving nicely right this second. For the most part. I spent almost an hour trying to make the thing work with Core Data last night only to find out I did not make a critical connection between the Core Data Entity I had created and the actual Swift file that brought the entity into the code.

I know, I know, rookies.

The next thing I will have to start thinking about is art. I am pretty sure apple won't let me just put a basic made skeletal app up there, or maybe they will. Most importantly, however is that I won't be happy with basic skeletal app up there. I want it sharp clean and bold. I like what the guys with untapped did with the way things look and act, but it's not the style I want to go for. I love that app and feel free to add me, Brian Domanski, on it should you come by this, but I want my app to look what I like. Unless of course I bring on a new member to do the art and then it will have to look as we like. I know a couple people who might be able to help me with that.

That will have to be when I am satisfied that I have this working as I want.

One thing I must say if you are new to coding and working on your own project as I am is stake some time and read Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg. It is a great book about a piece software that was to be ahead of it's time, but was bogged down by ever changing demands and add-ons and new team members. The most important lesson I learned for a solo coder as I am, despite the book being about a team effort, was to keep things simple and grow upon that. As I get into this I see now that there is so much temptation to add this feature or to be able to do this, and yes I will eventually add all of those should I be lucky enough to not only deliver to the app store but also be successful enough to do multiple upgrades, but it is most important to keep it simple at each step. After all when the first fish flopped on land it was not like we had the who diverse eco-system immediately there after.

Well I thank you for stopping by and I need to get on with things. Have a great one!@

Brian

3.16.2015

So this is the opening of the website for Chrysanthemum Yellow. All we are right now is one person starting up the website for his Xcode projects so he can put them on the app store eventually. Maybe one day it will go from just me to several people or even larger...

My only goal now is to begin making apps of any sort that I find interesting. Games, Social, Note Taking are all projects I ave swimming around in my head as I wander around this city, sit on the train or just walk from one place to another as I get about my day.

The philosophy I have is simple to create useful things that have a easy to use interface and leave you with a great experience. It maybe a short road or a long road there, but in the end I will get there.

As for me I am a Detroit native who moved to New York City in 2011. I lived in Manhattan for the year and a half here and currently reside in Brooklyn. I am a manager of a quick service restaurant and in the pst year I have decided that it is time for a career change and thought that I ought to take my beginning hobby of coding to begin my way into a new career. I have been teaching myself how to code for iOS and OS X for a about a year now and had to do a little restart as I was just beginning to work on Objective-C as apple announced Swift. I began this website and my projects because I have a disappointment with many apps I see and play with out there. I often think if this were mine I would do it in this way. So instead of just wishing things were differently I wanted to go and make things that I want to do in ways that make sense to me. Do not think this means that I just want to create clones of current apps that have my spin on them. No I will be making things that solve problems that I want to be able to handle with the computer in my pocket. I am happy to say though I believe that by June we will have our first product on the App Store with all things going perfectly, but a brand new coder and this being my first project I have no delusions about it working out perfectly. Hence the three month time line for what I plan to be a fairly simple app.

If you have happened to stop by thank you and if you are looking to reach out please do so.