As a beginning iOS developer, I remember learning a lot of the craft by trial and error, paired with many of the WWDC videos of years’ past. I was very lucky this year to 1) get chosen for the WWDC lottery and 2) work for a company that would support my trip to San Francisco. The week flew by and I went to some really interesting sessions. Here’s the things I found most interesting.
Last Saturday I got married to my longtime pal Emily. Emily handled a lot of the wedding planning and she did a really great job. I wanted to do some fun things for the wedding and reception and thought it would be fun to make a way for friends to share their photos of our day with us.
I was thinking that it would be easy enough to give people an Instagram hashtag and be done with it, but I wanted to make sure all (or at least most) of our guests would be able to participate. I figured that Twilio’s MMS would be a pretty straightforward way for our guests to share photos throughout the day without having to remember a hashtag or use a specific app.
Everyone I know loves a good Apple product-based trivial controversy. There was Antenna-gate, and Bend-gate which happened just last year. Back when the first iPhone came out, Apple dropped the price a few months after release and early adopters were pissed. No one can say if there will be a real issue with the watch, but I figure it would be fun to make a list of potential ones.
A few weeks ago, I noticed a tweet from John Sheehan asking if there was an automated tweet -> screenshot tool:
I thought it was a pretty interesting concept that would be fairly easy to implement and had a small enough scope that I could use it to learn some more Javascript. After playing around with Ghost Inspector, I knew it would be possible to render a screen capture of a webpage. I just needed to implement the logic for figuring out what area of a page to render, rather than the whole page.
Ikea Stockholm. The average college student would scoff at such luxury, but as a first-time homebuyer, I wanted the best. When I saw the Ikea Stockholm TV Unit (in walnut veneer), I knew I would have it. The problem was that it never seemed to be in stock.
