Well, I did it.  I’m now in LA.   So far, it’s worked out well.  I still have much to learn but I have received a very warm welcome with my new job.  A month in, I feel like I’m starting to get a hang of things.  The first 2 weeks I really felt like a deer in headlights.  I had a tough time juggling all of the new job responsibilities and I’m pretty sure I dropped every ball at least once.   In the third week I started to …

Well, I did it again.  I made the trek to Vegas and got back in one piece.  This is the second time that I’ve driven to Vegas and I’ve got to say it’s really not that bad.  The total time was about 8 hours each way and the entire trip was uneventful (other than the show itself which I will get to next).
I arrived in Vegas at 2pm on the first day of the show.  Turns out getting into the hotel parking lot took exactly 1 hour less than I …

I don’t normally write about sports, but I had to make an exception this week.  NC State used a couple of stellar plays only a minute apart from each other to take one from UNC 29-25.  It all started with a 2-yard Hail Mary pass from Russell Wilson that somehow found it’s way into Owen Spencer’s hands and ended with an end zone scrum that sent two players back to the locker room.  That was followed by a nice 3-and-out forced by NC States Defense and an 87-yard run to …

So … Here I am a week later after having my DIRECTV Firmware Monitor app rejected by Apple (original story) and I’m even more frustrated now than I was before.  The cool thing about Xcode are the nice features built in to the development environment.  But when you get rejected by Apple for a “not very useful” application, you also get the advice to “consider building a web app using HTML5.”  This is a nice gesture, but it is also the point at witch Apple essentially says “Good Luck” and …

A few days back I submitted a somewhat simple but useful application to Apple so that folks could get the current DIRECTV firmware version without having to go to my webpage. You know, “There’s an app for that.” I guess the fact that’s it’s too simple is not attractive to Apple because I received the following message after waiting a week for them to look at my work:
Hello Doug,
Thank you for submitting DIRECTV Firmware Monitor to the App Store.
We’ve completed the review of your application, however, we cannot …