I don’t post a lot of news from my work life on my personal tech blog. I am making this exception because it is such a drastic change from my day to day. I am now a professional objective C programmer. RideCharge completed the first version of it’s iPhone app. We like to call it Taxi Magic (iTunes URL) because it allows you to book a taxi without talking to anyone.
It does more than that though. It tells you when your cab actually gets assigned to a driver and usually how far away he is. Also it will find nearby locations you have already booked with, to ease address entry.
The process of developing an iPhone app is not that blissful. The tools and language are just that, another set of tools. It’s just normal device programming isn’t all that fun. BlackBerry and Winmobile provide their own set of problems that are pretty consistent with the iPhone. Then only difference is that on the iPhone you don’t have to deal with multiple form factors and input types. This really cuts down on the qa/development loop.
The result is worth it though. This is probably because I love my iPhone so much. When you have a passion for something you should devote your life to it. For me there have been many passions over the years, maps, Ruby, JavaScript, RSS, and now iPhone. There will come a day when I am no longer enamored with the iPhone, I know that, but today is not that day.
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