Sweet Tea Recipe

Sweet Tea Recipe:
 
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sweet-tea-recipe/index.html

iPhone Programming and Writing a Song

Yesterday I did some iPhone programming.  Today I have a couple pages to go.  Then I plan on writing a song.  I do want to do some more iPhone reading/programming because I know I'm acquiring a skill set that very well may set me up on a phenomenal journey.  But writing that song is important.  It allows me to put something out there and really makes me happy.


I plan on writing this song and then IDK.  Maybe writing another song fifty pages from now.  But I will be done with this iPhone book soon and then I can really get into putting everything together on a server and seeing how everything interfaces.  Big jump.  Big jump.  But I'm ready.  iPhone planning and programming.  Then server migration.  Still a long way to go but much closer than before.  


The cool part is that the next project(s) will be much faster due to the much smaller learning curve.  But it's crazy.  Just the next project(s) I'll have to restrict myself to web/mobile projects until I've got a significant amount of wealth.  Then I can move onto other projects.  Maybe I'll put out a record also.  Why not?  YOLO.

IDEA:  T-Shirt:  A blue t-shirt with a white shark jumping out of the water.  

IDEA:  T-Shirt: 'Welcome to New York  Don't Pet the Animals'

iPhone Programming, Writing a Song, and Cooking

So my game plan is to write up some code, write a song, and cook a meal.  Then I want to read a bit of my Wrox book about Core Data.  I want to read twenty pages.  So let me get started.  

The reason I want to get to work is I really want to start a company that generates some revenue relatively quickly.  In order to do that I intend on finishing what I'm working on first.  I hate starting one project before finishing another.  Therefore I intend on finishing the project I am working on now, getting it completely up and running and functional, and then launching my second project which will be much more low brow but should provide the revenue to launch my first project correctly without coming close to putting myself under financial pressure.  By the end of this year I want to have 100,000 dollars in the bank, liquid and be advanced in Muay Thai.  In order to do that I need to be super focused which means I need to get to work. So I'm getting to work.

Bobby Flay's Meatloaf

A maker is a maker is a  maker.  Well, the next thing I'm going to make next Sunday is a meatloaf using this recipe.  Check it out.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/roasted-vegetable-meat-loaf-with-balsamic-glaze-recipe/index.html

I'll keep you posted.

Core Data and Progress

Well yesterday I read through up to page 200.  Tomorrow I plan to work through page 200 and then write a song.  I find song writing helps me to actually get something out there which is always cool for a creative person like me.  

I know I'll enjoy it.  So that's cool.  What's even cooler is that I've made a real decision about my career path.  I've pretty much got everything down right now as far as technical skills in terms of basics, i.e. web programming, DB development, AJAX.  Though I consider myself a intermediate beginner.  (3/10 on the overall skill scale) I've got the basic skills to do what I want to do and more importantly I know what I don't know.  I'm really getting comfortable in this skill set (iPhone, web, DB).  The last place I really want to get comfortable is server management.  If I can get comfortable there I'll have a real business.  After I finish this iPhone app I'll have to take some time to get good at server management.  

To be honest I'm not looking forward to it but it'll be cool after I'm good at it.  I don't know. I am looking forward to running ten servers from my apartment.  That'll  be kinda crazy.  Networking them and getting them to talk to each other, etc.  Cool.  I'm kinda laughing inside.  That'll be crazy.  It's just the traffic will be the big part.  Getting the traffic that is.

I'm starting to think about business plans and I think my first real business plan ought to be to talk to a restaurant and get them onboard.  Maybe I'll talk to Manny's and see if I can work out something with them to see if I can get that to work, just to see if I can get a system to work all the way with no kinks.  That allows me no real out of pocket expenditures.  Or maybe I can talk to the local bodega.  If that works then maybe I'll expand to another bodega, just to see if I can get that working.  If I can make 100 bucks a week from each bodega I'd be pretty happy.  Who knows.  But if that works it's scalable.  It'll be a business.  Then I can save the profits from that to do other things.  

Maybe I'll pitch Duane Reade to manage their mobile infrastructure, etc.  I'll have a real business and then I can launch GFM properly with no real outside capital.  Not really sure about this economic model.  I'll have to think about it more.  And write about it more too.  Stay tuned.

iPhone App

I'm at a tipping point.  Now I make enough money to actually make real progress.  It makes me more careful and more willing to put up with the endless bullshit at work from smirking bosses and co-workers to the incessant personal chatter and needless pacing of co-workers.  But I think about the money.  I can do well with money like that.

I've started working through this Wrox text with respect to Core Data.  It's good.  But now I've gotta get through it.  But I'm confident I can work through it.

So my plan is really simple.  For the next 16 years of my life devote myself to technology and building technology products and companies.   Or one awesome company.  It's actually funny because I record myself sometimes with ideas or songs.  But when I hear myself talking about my future company (with God's blessing) it sounds like me.  Like I should sound.   

Then with the next 20 years of my life (if I'm not having a ball with tech) I'll work in politics.  Senator Sumpter.  That sounds good.  

As for now I want to be dating steady for a bit.  Maybe six weeks or so.  Hey.  It's a start.

As for the iPhone App I'm working through the text.  After that I should be migrating this stuff to my own server and then hardening it.  Maybe I'll put up a website first just to really check out how it is to harden a server.  Work.  Work.  And tons of work.  

This weekend I should put out another song.  And work through page 200 of that iPhone text.  That'd be cool.  No pressure but that'd be cool.  That'd mean I'd only have about 100 pages to go before I could start designing the one for GFM.  Nice.  Work, work, work.

iPhone Code (initializing a TableViewController)

carbData = [[NSArray alloc] 

initWithObjects:@"What Are Carbs?",@"Why Do I Need Carbs?",@"Simple Vs. Complex",

@"Fun Five Facts",nil]; 

proteinData =  [[NSArray alloc] 

initWithObjects:@"What is Protein?",@"Why Do I Need Protein?",

@"Complete Vs. Incomplete",@"Fun Five Facts",nil]; 

fatData = [[NSArray alloc] 

initWithObjects:@"What Are Fats?",@"Why Do I Need Fats?",

@"Saturated Vs. Unsaturated",@"Fun Five Facts",nil];  

[self setTitle:@"Nutrition Table"];

}

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
    return 3;
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView 

numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    return [self.carbData count];
    return [self.proteinData count];
    return [self.fatData count];
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView 

cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    static NSString *SimpleTableIdentifier = @"SimpleTableIdentifier"; 
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier: 

 SimpleTableIdentifier];

    if (cell == nil) 

 { cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] 

initWithFrame:CGRectZero 

reuseIdentifier:SimpleTableIdentifier] autorelease];
 }

    
    if(indexPath.section == 0)
        cell.text = [carbData objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    if(indexPath.section == 1)
        cell.text = [proteinData objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    if (indexPath.section == 2)
        cell.text = [fatData objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    return cell;
}

- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView 

titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section

 {
    if(section == 0)
        return @"Carbohydrates";
    if (section ==1)
        return @"Protein";
    else if (section ==2)
        return @"Fats";
}

Well I'm Back

Ambition can be exhausting.  Man was I exhausted.  I took a month to simply code and code I did.  I did quite a bit of work in that month, and effectively finished my site for GFM.  Then I had some reading to do.  And man, did I hit a wall.


The wall hit me like a ton of bricks.  I was on my third Objective-C book and boom!  Just like that I was reading about Core Data and I just couldn't read anymore.  My system just went into shutdown.  My brain was tired and it was just like 'ENOUGH!'.  I was done.  I stopped and didn't read anything.  Then just today my entrepreneurial bug got sparked and I picked up my Wrox book and started reading again. 


Now I can get back into it.  I'm taking baby steps.  I'm being humble.  I'm moving at my own pace.  I start graduate school in a month.  I have a full-time job.  So I'm working hard not to get out of balance.  But I am starting to move back toward my goal.  GFM isn't dead.  It was just resting.