Everyone has to reinvent themselves at some point or another. Whether it is over a long period of time or overnight–let’s face it; change happens. For some it is overwhelming and unwelcome, for others like me, I tend to turnover about every 6 months (HA!) with a few exceptions. However, lately, it has been an uphill battle to focus my attention on one thing for any amount of time. Well, I have come to the point where I can say, I need to be disciplined. And what better way to enforce this by creating a blog series? Okay, okay. So that’s not REALLY the way it happened, but kind of. In all actuality, to know why I decided to go off on these crazy interweb adventures is because I LOVE learning new things, but mostly love building things from scratch–my bare hands. These things that I build are mostly computer related, since that is where I spend 10 hours of my day being bored to death with a certain companies Life Insurance business. But I digress.
The whole point of this blog is to trek my adventures in building stuff myself. To give you a bit of track history to give you a platform for my first history you need to know this: I am in a rock and roll band full of geeks; myself included. Anymore almost everyone is computer savvy, but lately we have been trying to get value added material, other than just music, to reach out to the growing generational gap to our target market–teenagers, mostly. But, really I am in a band called After the fall. I play guitar, and one thing that I saw we could use along side our newly released song on Rock Band was our very own iPhone App!
So today, or maybe later this Memorial weekend I will upload what I have already started learning over the last three days. Let me tell you, it has been a lot. As a general overview it has been sort of sporatic, hence, another reason to provide you/me a way to orgainize everything I’ve learned.
About the App: PostDream.net an After the fall application.
My goal with this app is mostly PR for my band, I won’t lie about that. The idea first came from “what app can I make for our band that will give it legitimacy, but have something to do with our costly, newly released album?”. Of course I pondered this for about 24 hours before coming to a brilliant idea. Since our whole album slogan is “You Don’t Have to Sleep to Dream.” I was going to add a sort of “fmylife”/”textsfromlastnight” platform for people to post their dreams, all while hearing our album! Another plus, was it was mostly web driven and I already had a solid platform to jump off of using jMyLife for Joomla.
I began immediately working on downloading the iPhone SDK and doing research, not having any idea what I am getting myself into…
To be continued….
