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Andrew Smith's blog — software development, indie apps, and whatever else seems worth writing down.
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And the blogging starts (again)
Rebooting andsmi.com after an eleven-year break — same habit as 2011, new pile of markdown, and a build that posts for me when I forget to.
Welcome to Uptima
Uptima's LinkedIn welcome post from April 2022 — Commodore, Lotus 1-2-3, Upstate NY, family.
Chariot Wheels of an Enterprise AI System
Roman chariot gauges, Space Shuttle boosters, and why the standards you set on an enterprise AI platform might outlast you — written during MTX's first Maverick AI deal.
Step by Step–Planning a Trip to Ireland for Under $2,000 for Two People
Guest post by Andrew Smith (Kathleen's husband) Today is Saturday, April 21, 2018. I’m going to walk through how I would plan a trip to Ireland in the next…
Winning the Heart Attack Lottery
Last week I wrote about my husbands recovery from major surgery. The week before that I wrote about his heart attack and surgery through my eyes. Today’s…
Gilberts Corners, a hamlet of Sharon Springs
Below is an excerpt from “History of Schoharie County” – page 247 regarding Gilbert’s Corners. This settlement was made about the year 1794, by families…
Attach to IIS *FAST* from Visual Studio
This is a must have if you are using Visual Studio and debugging with IIS (Which you probably should be doing anyway….if you are writing a web app of any…
Adding Reference Paths to all Projects in Solution (Visual Studio)
I like to have a libraries folder at the base of the solution and set the Reference Path for each project in the Visual Studio Solution to the “relative”…
Organic App Growth - When you see your app in the real world, or in the newspaper
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4400378/Dad-out-of-coma-I-need-a-KFC-treat.htmlI got a Tweet last week from @scottcomstock that he noticed my app,…
The Numbers Post @ 1 year * Independent Publishing in the E-Book Age
By Kathleen and Andrew Smith Sitting on the couch next to us right now is a dog-eared copy of Kathleen’s book – “Marriages & Miscarriages: One Woman’s…
Terra Nova classic Scifi for the family
It’s rare I find a show I am comfortable watching with the entire family (ages 16,13,7). Terra Nova is one of those shows we have become addicted to. As a…
App Store Description, does it matter?
i just submitted a new app to the app store – Quick Math Free – a sequel to my Quick Math Game series (Quick Math Game, Quick Multiplication, Quick…
iOS Development Learning Curve
When I first looked at Objective-C in Xcode it was one of the oddest languages I had seen My mind struggled with grasping the syntax. It reminded me of when…
What's Great about 3 Star Reviews
I use AppSales to download my sales stats and my reviews. I have just recently used it to start looking at my “3 star” reviews. I’m theorizing that these…
And the sound source goes to
Well, soundsnap – that seems to be where I get most of my sounds these days. However I have heard about Vimeo’s new Music Store has a lot of great free or…
Family Photos
We have experienced family photos in a variety of different settings. We have done Olan Mills. A few years back we went to the Picture People in the mall a…
Bluetooth Keyboard for Blogging and Coding on the iPad
The addition of the Apple Blue Tooth keyboard to my iPad is really starting to come in handy. As I begin to grow my blog it has allowed me to toss out rapid…
Ideas vs. Doing
I really enjoyed reading “The Lean Startup” by Eric Reis. One of the principles I gleaned from it was that secrecy about your startup idea is not required.…
Disable ARC for a single file (3rd party items)
I was excited to see Automatic Reference Counting in XCode 4.2 – but found that once I added one of my favorite 3rd party pieces of code I couldn’t compile…
Share My App Sales Twitter Tool
I’ve got a little prototype Twitter tool I did recently – when I get a chance I will write more about it–here’s a sample of a tweet from it: 88 downloads 83…
Thoughts on mobile app growth and market "age" when it comes to kids apps
The mobile app space is growing like gangbusters. The current US Smart Phone penetration is about 36% and expected to reach 50% in 2012. As an indie-iOS…
Couch Development
The holidays tend to offer me a greater time for couch development. This is the process of sitting on ones couch, while the family is napping or otherwise…
iOS Tools I like
Okay, here’s my list of tools/source I like to use when developing for iOS. MBProgressHUD This is a very useful little tool for handling popup busy signals.…
Now that was a good run (Numbers post for App "almost" in Apple ad)
Sometime around early August this year apple began running iPad 2 advertisements that featured an app that looked a lot like my “Kids Writing Pad” app. My…
Outbrain "if you liked this you might also like"
I listened to a great episode of This Week in Startups this week that had Yaron Galai as the guest. Yaron is the founder of Outbrain, a content…
Timely.is tweets my queues or queues my tweets
On a recent episode of This Week In Startups ( @twistartups ) I heard about http://timely.is for scheduling your tweets for optimal impact. As part of my…
iPads in Education Transportation
It’s exciting to see a long time project hit the sales floor. iPads in school bus transportation planning and accident response are not only beat to look at…
Tracking App Rankings with Applyzer
I’ve tried a few tools for tracking App Rankings in the app store–I always come back to Applyzer for the convenience of being browser based and for it’s…
And the blogging starts
Isn’t this so 1998? Blogging that is. It just seems like it is going to be more beneficial as I share my development experiences. So, first post?
Coding for fun and money
So I didn’t place in the top 5 in my first coding project to win the weekly prize. At least not this week. I did however learn more about Azure and…
I Want Names for my Servers!
The following was written by Slashdot Reader Andrew Smith. In some small way I, as a System Engineer, can derive pride from giving my servers loving…