I thought it may be helpful to others to do a bit of a diary on app development. I have been gifted 3 months to make an impact on apps either to make a small living or a tangible skill that can be used in my career/CV/resume. I promise not to make this a vanity postingmy name is not Kanye West). And will only post if requested. I feel some of my experiences may be useful to other BT users and will post any useful links Background - Years ago use to tinker with code on Commodore 64, and spectrums. Years later was Teaching Science - got a smartphone and notice all the students had one as well. Stumbled across BT and thought this would be great for quizzes etc. Wrote 2 apps to introduce myself to apps, first was a quiz for my daughters on ponies (thought it would be cheaper than buying them one), The second was for people to get a job which would help with CV (resume), interview etc. Now - Want to do a free app to promote career app and help people with professional CV’s -Want to do a free science app for revision and if there is a good take up then build a paid main app -Tidy up my pony app as people have started sending me pics of them on there pony (part of the app) - Understand basics of Objective C -Start Leaning HTML 5 I have learnt that BT is the framework in which you can create great apps, this can be further tweaked if you have a knowledge of some basic coding. I find David to be very encouraging of tinkering or learning further if required and this has led me to the forum. Any developer even as novice as me can pull the best resource on the web which is the forum, which I notice is getting more and more regular contributors with key knowledge and a helpful manner So thought I would look on web for any help on objective C and came across http://www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials - incredible range of tutorials from basics to developing game physics. I learn quite well from books and found these had good reviews on Amazon from buyers, (sure some are the authors Mums). Head First iPhone and iPad Development: A Learner's Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone and iPad Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) [Paperback] and an area that forum Members have directed me to HTML5 and Javascript Beginning iPhone and iPad Web Apps: Scripting with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Just a little promotion of great looking apps and design Jamie Olivers cooking app- the menu and the way it flows is beautiful. Like the way you get good free content first and can get IAPS when you require - use of which has lead to the need of the second app Endomonodo Fitness app - fabulous to combat what I am terming the Buzzouch Belly (TM) - the more app work I do the further I get away from being an Olympic athlete (the fact that I have never been selected for local teams in the sports I enjoy doesn’t reduce my illusions (or delusions) of greatness.)

Hi Marko, I'm totally following you on this! Good luck on your endeavor...let us know how we can help...and I look forward to your updates! Mark

Thanks Marko. Interesting. I also look forward to updates.

Hi Marco, Thanks and I also follow with interest

Yep i'll be watching too! hmmm BuzztouchBelly.com has a ring to it :)

I dig the belly thing, too funny. @Marko, thanks so much for sharing these thoughts. I'm sure the posters here are not the only ones interested (most don't post as you know) so keep them coming, you're helping more folks than you may realize by humanizing your experiences. Good stuff.

Day 2- Firstly I would like to thank you for the interest expressed in this diary thing, the last time I had this amount of interest was at my dancing in a Miami nightclub by holidaying mental health workers looking at there next potential client. I didn't know whether to make separate posts or continue on this post, I decided on the latter as I didn't want to take up too much forum space with my musings. Anyway I thought I would use this post to my advantage by posting a few questions to you as well as fumbling through the dark side which is coding. My prime focus is on getting a free app up on producing a CV/resume to promote paid app. I have also constructed a generic restaurant app with menus, offers and so forth that I can sell to restaurants in customised form. I have ordered a bunch of flyers so that as well as email marketing I can do a postal campaign (it feels so 18th century). My first epiphany was that an app no matter what must serve its purpose. The simpler and easier to function the better. The buildmycareer app has been praised for its layout and structure but the content is to wordy and looks like a dissertation rather than an informative app. At the same time the tab menu is confusing to many new users and the text to long. I need to brake the information into chunks and give examples. Using the change font background function in custom HTML to highlight key points is not good enough, I need to put examples a key point in boxes that stand out but do conflict with the design. Therefore Prime purpose of App - Help people build a top notch CV/ Resume with info from headhunters and career processionals Secondary purpose - To promote my total interview app Question 1 - I would love to have some form system in app so that user could put key info in and a pdf/doc file is generated by app giving them correctly laid out CV. Could this be done within app or would it have to be linked to a website form Question 2 - On app have done stages of CV in a list menu on BT- is there a way to have a physical gap between each list item like inserting a row between each data value in excel so that it doesn't look like one huge list but a series of menu items. I can see how to do this in buttons by spacing them out but not in lists. Final note - trying to understand what goes on xcode is like looking at the rows of numbers in the Matrix to a novice coder. David once advised me to watch what files were tracked in xcode. Crashed xcode twice today. I think David is really Morpheus and giving me a choice of blue or red pill, and the real world is destroyed and we are all energy units for the great SoftApple Corp. I feel happier thinking Ben & Jerry are really two cuddly guys making Ice Cream rather than a global company which has large stock in sugar cane plantations and diet pills. I choose the blue pill.

Good move. Me too... Ben and Jerry ARE two cuddly guys making ice cream...

Week 2 - I start this week under more scrutiny than last. Some people close to me feel that I should pursue this more as a hobby than try to develop a career out of. My own viewpoint is that I will let my work either validate or prove wrong my choice. To me apps feel like that time when you were given a blank piece of paper and a pencil and just drew, you weren't sure where it was going but its always going to be more than just a blank piece of paper. I find I levitate more to people who get on and do things than those that advise people on all that can go wrong. Any way this posting will have little relevance if I can not relate some experience of doing apps. My big thing this week is to get a consistent design seems to be the differentiators between professional looking apps and those that are more Home Brew. I have found it quite easy to source good icons and tweak them but the text in the app looks dull. I need to learn how to code so that I can create text box's that appear less wordprocessor and more app appropriate. The other stumbling block is that I am doing an information app to help with CV's, but viewing several screens of text can get a little dull - will investigate how other apps approach this problem I find choosing a colour in the BT menus hard, if its a simple colour - no problem but to get a subtler tone of grey as an example can be a challenge. It might just be my ability to descry different colours which does explain some of my own fashion disasters. I downloaded iskats improver app done by a BT user the design and the support website are excellent - really worth a look.

Hi Marko, Nice update! I say...if you can afford the time to see if this blossoms into a new career, then there should be nothing stopping you. And you can guarantee the forum will be here to support you every step of the way! Do you have a link for the iskats thing you mention? Mark

Thanks mark you are always a great source of reassurance. The iskate link is, he had put some promo codes, I am not sure if they are still available. http://clk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=23708&a=2033536&url=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fapp%2Fiskate-improvers%2Fid491459866%3Fmt%3D8%26uo%3D4%26partnerId%3D2003

Hi Marco, Creating a professional design is a process on itself. Often people choose wrong colors and images that don't fit together. Colors are very important. Use the RGB color codes to choose you own. Next website can be a help in choosing a color and combining good color. Try it, use it and you'll see that your app is gonna look better: http://colorschemedesigner.com/ Best Regards, Danny

Hi Danny That's an amazing link. I have just be playing with it for a few minutes and it is a definite part of my design toolkit. I thought I would do a little quite post tonight thinking that no one was still following this thread, I hope my personal ramblings aren't to indulgent I started this account of as a way to giggle at my own naivety and as evidence of my overabundance of enthusiasm and optimism

I thought I would qualify this post with a bit of background so that I can do to others within buzztouch what has occurred to me which is be helped. I am surprised by any interest in these ramblings and initially did them as an impulse and a declaration of intent. I thought I could put in some details of my experience of start ups and offer any advice to others from a humble perspective. I left university and could not get a job, I popped in to a garage just to check on the cost of fixing my old banger and saw that they had little time to get stuff. Next day I bought two tubs of industrial hand cleaner for a £10 and went round garages and sold them £20. I built up a round selling gloves, oils and so forth and started being recognised by bigger business. Within a year I was approached by Texaco to become there area distributor. I set up a profit share business where me a very lovely but bossy office manager and three of the dog-est but loveable reps built a tiny empire. We sold to engineers and car companies and in the 2000's they started having difficulty and going bust. We sold the small business which gave us all a little lump sum to get on the property ladder. I won a little enterprise award for business and was called in to advise small business on setting up. 10 years later with a few interesting and fun jobs, I am at the same point - looking for work with the resources of an iMac and time to start something constructive,fun and evolving. I don't want to set up something where I am the sole creator and benefactor of a business, I want to learn the field enough to put a framework together then coerce, bribe, blackmail and talk other app makers into forming a cooperative, flexible, fair and honorable entity that makes a bit of money, is creative and garners a lot of pride. So back to the musings of a novice and the building of the framework. I have spent a great deal of time looking at apps and there viability, and the ones that are long term builders are those that involve a form of integration with the user e.g posting pics etc, developing feedback and have regular updates of information. There has to be a need beyond viewing once or the occasional quiz. Some links with a website i.e ianjamespiano app where venues are posted, or macapples banksy app where you van upload photos of graffiti art show that viability. I must learn HTML5 and brush up on php and jquery to help develop forms and web integration. Please excuse me if ramblings of my past or my desire to create a bigger entity which can be shared is a little self indulgent.

This is the start of my third week and I am feeling upbeat about the future. I have had apple tell me that my career app has sold a little in Germany, New zealand and Australia. This blows me away - fiscally it just a few units but the feeling that someone is using my app in other countries is a great. Most my time last week was spent looking into forms and ways of getting the CV app to have added features. I have looked into HTML5, php and javascript, anyone needing to incorporate a form for use in the app straight away without knowledge of HTML can use free online services that generate the code or help manage submissions. www.emailmeform.com I found to be one of the easiest for generating and managing forms. There are tons of websites with html you can incorporate in your website/ After all this I feel the practicality of generating a CV via input on the phone although achievable is not desirable. I have 3 top recruitment friends who are going to develop the best blank CV, cover letter and follow up letter and the user can download these to there desktops/notebooks. The feedback I got was that such a vital document needs a bigger screen for review than a phone. I concur but anyone thoughts on this would be appreciated. I have found that to work from home and to make a success I have to discard any distractions, its amazing after trying to understand coding how appealing a dodgy 80's tv show or a xbox game that was gathering dust starts taking a glow like the arc of the covenant. I get up every morning at 6am whilst birds are still embraced and dreaming of new ways to defecate on our cars, i check the forum to see if there is anyone to help to find the usual suspects have beat me to the draw with much better informed answers, and enjoy the silence whilst children are dreaming of schemes to test parenthood. I use a timer and log my hours and feel happy when I can see I am giving a proper go. One tipto ensure that your coffee input does not exceed brazils natural output is for every coffee drink a glass of water. This is my contribution to BT - Go Northwest may be able to guide an app submission, MgoBlue may help people with HTML and Ian James may have the coolest profile but none of them have helped with your caffeine addiction. Today I feel useful

Completed my side of the CV/ Resume builder app, waiting now for my friends who are headhunters and in recruitment to do the example CV, cover letter and job spec that I will incorporate in the app. Also I have done a promotion page to link to full career app with app store logo - still unsure to use as I dont want it to be rejected over infringing apple copyright. I think its ok as its just a link to their store? On the note of links- if you put an image on custom HTML screen if you double click the image you get a range of extra features including link - had the long html address to app by the app store logo but will change that to the available at app store image and link on that. While waiting I will redesign my shocking web site for apps, seeing fellow BT users who designed iSkate app web site I know I must up my gain and give it some attention. st726 has made an amazing video and he has kindly offered to make one for my app when he has the opportunity and built a mega editing PC. I will design home page with that video in mind, his work is extremley professional and cool. The good thing about being on BT is that there is always help - if everything goes well on app submission I will do my first android app and I know there will be help in this regard I hope David doesn't find some of the comments I place on the forum too cheeky, if I am exiled from BT Id end up poking fun of all those limpet sites that claim to be expanding on BT function but are really trying to monopolise and monetize on BT's good grace. I would be like a ronin in feudal japan going from cyber forum to cyber forum unwanted with blunt code and weak mercenary html skills.

Hello all (I thinks its only Macapple & Gonorthwest still following) and some drunken forum searcher that thinks Buzz touch is a term for some adult forum on where buzz touch means something inappropriate.) I have completed CV app (free) version and now awaiting on the voice of some minor deity(itunes approval to say yes.) So far what I have learnt is that to develop an app business its not just on an the app itself. I believe in the career app, it offers great advice from professionals on how to get a through the job process. When doing the free CV one I realized that this was better constructed than the total career app which will have the CV part in it. The price point of the paid app was a guided by similar apps in its section and I felt lower would degrade the validity of the contributors I have had. Doing the CV free version which is approx 1/3 of the full app has made me evaluate the full app. I would have loved to get the contributors to do short video interviews or mock interviews with a candidate but the companies they work for would not approve it. To me the app is about a 1/5th there. I would like some social forum aspect to it, more templates for people to work with and a more flowing interface. The great thing about an app is you can update it so those users get the value of your revised efforts. When i made the buildmycareer app I was very proud of it and through this process the great thing I have learnt is that it could be better. I think an app needs to be more than just an edited info book. With apps the beauty is they can evolve from being a mobile reference source to be a current tool, have great links, include personal experiences and in these difficult times guide someone to not only getting a job but helping others with there experiences. I dont quite yet know how to do all of this but it is a buzz learning. And to that drunken user that thinks its a adult forum - please make an app instead.

Hi Marko, I like the thoughts on the price point. I'm about to raise the price on my single paid app because of the extra work I've put into it, and because I think it's worth it. I've struggled with that, and I'm hoping I make the right decision. I would be very interested to see the drunken buzz touch app...just for research, of course! ;-) Mark

Hi Mark My viewpoint on pricepoint is one that I have put a lot of thought and research into. At first like many people I think you look at what other people are charging for similar apps and then price accordingly, I think this is the wrong model. Firstly any app thats over $ 1.50 should have a free lite version. I would hate to think someones bought my app and thought that it was £1.99 wasted. I am hoping that the lite version shows them there's substance there and will go further. Secondly I think as an app developer the fee paid for the app is not just in the current app but in all the updates available. I think the content in my buildmycareer app is worth the £1.99 but the layout and extras are not. I hope when I update it (comming soon) that people who have bought it think - oh that's good- its worth another read and download of templates etc. Thirdly in app purchases annoy me if you have paid for an app to perform a function it seems wrong once you have charged the customer to get through the door, it seems cheeky to charge for the toilets. If the app is free and content is charged for then thats a little fairer, such as Jamie Olivers menu packs are add on with free sample pack. Fourthly - I am guilty on this one - the website that you have to offer info, support and advice should be clear functional and friendly. I need to address this urgently on my site Fifthly - just because a marketpoint has high income end users there is no need need to rack the price. I seen a Yacht app that was a ridiculous price point for a few data feeds of weather and maps. I do not have a yacht, or a row boat, I do have a paddling pool. I just feel that's opportunistic. These are just my views, but the more I am doing the more I feel a certain protectiveness to the whole concept of apps.

Thanks for this post, Marko. You've given me some food for thought regarding a Lite version of my app. I don't ever expect to charge over $1.99 for my app, and quite honestly, for what I'm offering, that seems like quite a deal (and one that I would find worth paying for in a similar app), but if I ever get bigger, an Lite version might not be a bad idea. I don't ever see myself offering an app with In App Purchases (unless the app is just more conducive to that), as I really like the idea of giving people everything they pay for at once. Anyway...lively discussion...good stuff! Mark

I have finally got my free app on the apple store and it is displaying correctly. Anyone interested it is http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cv-resume-lite/id498133241?mt=8 I have explained earlier that I have 3 months to make in roads with apps, I could detect from my beautiful partner a concern. She is in headhunting (a great help in current app) and was worried that the job market is so difficult that my good work profile would be hampered by this period off. Quite logically she has advised I look for work whilst she will help free up time for app development around work. I feel a compromise is essential and have worked on developing a work structure that is flexible that will allow looking after my children and family, working and time for app development. I have looked into this and have developed a structure that may help others who are timed limited but want to make effective use of time. There is some great time management resources and guidance but I will try and sum arise here what I have gleaned and implemented, and whether it works. Primarily I am trying to give this advice to people who would like to take there app development to the next level, my advice would dampen those that are developing primarily just for fun. Heres the way I have interpreted - in an average working 8hr day most people are truely effective for 4-5hrs of that day with the actual job task. The rest is the small incidentals that keep us sane and enable us to build up for that task. Therefore even if you can only spend 2-3hrs a night you are effectively already creating a part time worker for your app business. Its crucial to have the following- A tidy, isolated work area ready for development- for me I have a little desk laid out with only those things I need for app development Remove any distraction apps or programmes that take your time away - for me that not looking on youtube at panda's falling over or games where I save the world. Also the forum is more addictive than narcotics - but is helpful in so many ways. Time your work - For me this has been a massive foci. I set a target hours. The sense of achievement that I hit my target that I have set may seem crazy but it like getting a gold star in primary school. Record your work - I keep a log of how many hours a week I have done, and at the end of the day I just put a few to do's and notes for next. Spend time planning - I have a sheet on the goals I want for the app - a brief map on all the stages it helps me see where I am and keep focus. Sacrifice - you cant push this for free - you have to give up stuff. I have knocked TV on the head, bought netflix and just watch an episode of a programme so that I dont casually graze at TV fall asleep at the sofa, wake up at 4pm looking like Garfield on an overdose of lasagne. Now I need to market and develop the profile the app. Enjoy what I have done in that day - There is a buzz in seeing something created and there is no point being like Christian Bale in American Psycho. There has to be fun to it. (debates with Fred on Apple/Android are enjoyable to me. (i need to get out more.) So far this has really worked for me, and its a system that I can employ most days working or not.

I thought I was due an update - just to keep my sanity. Spent over 7hours trying to get blackberry app - foolish when I haven't got eclipse to work on mac. Had great help from forum members and was able to register as developer but no joy submitting app. My fault took too many shortcuts which ended up making more work. The prize of a playbook by 3am in the mourning was like being a bear cub living close to Sarah Palin. Now the deadline for app submission has been extended, I think someone is looking from afar and having a giggle. Picked up great recommendation from Forum on a mac html5 website creation programme - HYPE. Its really easy and as someone who has built using Dreamweaver I felt it makes you think more of design than code. It is showing me that I need to focus on HTML5 and Java rather than objective C to help me integrate cool elements with an app. David has given me a toolset that puts me far forwards without having to learn to much objective C The site I have created is a support site and promotion of app its on www.scratchurapp.com. Any views on site greatly appreciated as I am on the fence between really liking site to feeling its a bit gimmicky. The last thing I want to say tonight is that doing a free app to promote paid app has been the best move I have made so far. I dropped the price of paid app as I seen people from many regions of the world, some far less affluent getting the free app. Its easy in UK to assume an app at £1.99 is cheaper than a posh coffee but in some other countries for the average person it could be a considerable expense. My kids look at the places the free app have been downloaded and put it on Google earth. The sense of achievement that here I am in my little room in the UK and today people have downloaded it from over 20 countries, Singapore being the most popular is mind blowing. Whether I make a living out of this is a secondary feeling, I truley feel like I am part of the coolest industry/playground.

hype is hot stuff, just a word of advice is not to overcharge the page with media, photos, animations, etc. All goes into one Javascript file, memory is short on mobile devises and it can crash your app. Now, if only we could link html buttons to BT screens, that would be super. Great to hear you are having fun.

Hi Paddy. Thanks for your guidance on hype. I was looking at this as mainly a web tool to code website as my original one was so ugly and ineffective that children would cry or hold there hands up in surrender. The integration of websites with BT is really cool but until unlimited data tariffs on mobile phones get cheaper I err on the side of caution and try to make apps as native as possible. Looking at Davids app shows me that I have further to go in coding than George Bush has to understanding Global Warming.

I thought I would update with status of whats going on within my world and say a bit about being open. I am a very private person and the diary has perplexed and amused me that I would be so open. There is something about BT and its users that has made me realise that a stiff upper lip doesn't solve any situation, it just makes you look like a monkey in a banana plantation. I was a little worried about the new job I have been offered, the company say I will start in early March but have made no further correspondence, there new UK side just keeps going to answerphone and the USA side just give me the UK boss email which he hasn't responded to. I have always worked for very straightforward companies and this variability is slightly unsettling. I say this because I want to practice what I preach. What I found annoying on one forum was someone has said he had worked an admob for android but refused to give insight to how, then he posted a conditional offer to do a video on terms x,y,z. This is so against what I believe that I have to comment on it. Softwarelint I would normally refrain from personalizing this issue but in highlighting you in my own little post that maybe a 3 or so loyal souls follow I must condemn you lack of perspective for what you are in involved in. You integrate with a framework that BT has not profited one bit yet apart from business profile, you benefit from the knowledge, mistakes and experience of thousand of forum members and you have the indecency to post a brag on a closed achievement. I repeat my comment from a great countryman of yours - Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. What make me laugh is I am still learning to use eclipse so I have very little personal need for your astounding achievement. In fairness I may be venting this because I am concerned that a job I was celebrating a few weeks ago is still not officially confirmed. The other reason is that this week a key forum member shared information so personal and touching that it reminded why I love this virtual arena of knowledge and integrity.

Muchas gracias :)

I dedicate this post to a man that knows that Neil Armstrong is more important than one of the developers of tomb raider. To give this context my adopted boy (8) was more impressed with me knowing someone who help develop Tomb Raider than having Neil Armstrong as a distant relative! I darn't tell him I know someone who interviewed to work on Halo! We are writting to Neil Armstrong and doing an app together, Being mucked about so far on this job offer has made me value what I do more and more on Buzztouch. I think there could be a career in the apps but I know I have a long way to go. On a free app I am getting 60-100 downloads a day, dont know if this is good for a free app but it gives massive satisfaction. I have a controversial point now but its important, on the one hand I want David and team strapped to a programming chair further enhancing this mammoth tool never sleeping, eyelids propped by matches, intravenous jolt cola being drip feed to him, with Parker lying in some pod with viscous liquid being the energy source or some sentient being like in that film with Tom (i love Scientology but honestly its not effecting me, who needs epidurals) Cruise. On the other Hand I miss his input, when he adds to a post its like having Tom Hanks in a film, it feel cosy and everything's going to be all right. I see his inputs with the newer members and reminisce what BT kindergarden was like. Parkers little posts always help me along with his bandanna and smile made me know that there may be a serial killer out there in cyberspace but parker would sort it in a pre 80's Burt Reynolds stylee. So in conclusion hurry up with the next D'apple, I know its going to be great. And my potential new employers who have not sent me a contract yet or written confirmation, if its not soon I am setting Parker on you, and David Attica Finch (To kill a mcockingbird for the less literate) will represent me in court.

Hello all, I wish to bring this dairy back to the process of apps rather than some of my more self righteous posts on life and Ghandi. Last week was dogged with me trying to learn eclipse and being able to construct app for android and blackberry. I felt like hanzel being led into the forest trying to get a sweets in the form of a playbook. To learn apps is like having an addiction, you need a sponsor. To someone who uses apple software Eclipse is the like the drug baron asking you to do nefarious tasks just so you can get onto a new market. Eclipse teases you with logcats and activity but ultimately smacks you until you agree to do life under its terms. No more guided menus and xcode loving, instead you are shown a room with loads of options all promising the biggest app high, but in the end just because parameter 1375 is not present you cant come in. This is where you sponsor comes in, he/she keeps you away from the nasty options and leads you to a nicer part of town where its more like Glastonbury in the 70's than Compton LA in the 90's. He leads you to safe eclipse usage with no after effects, he shows you to take away those map functions that blackberry dont like and chose playbook option 2.0 for submission. The feeling of submitting the app to blackberry (still waiting approval) and android - no checks on APK? Is massively satisfying and dare I say it more satisfying than apple not rejecting my first app. Doing this has brought me a step closer in the long term to developing a career doing this for the future Thanks David, thanks GoNorthwest (sponser), thanks Fred (co-sponser) and thanks forum for pushing me faster than I would of on my own.

A new site - deserves a new update to a diary that the sum total of two people are following ( me being one - GoNothWest out of sympathy in like a vet with a lame horse type of way). I think it is crucial for BT to develop a payment profile, I love the foundations of BT, but I am totally assured that as it develops commercially it will strengthen the features for its users. Blackberry have rejected the app because I foolishly sent in app with a logo that has android robot thing in the corner. A very basic error that I wont repeat. I think my chances of getting a free playbook are equal to Macapple finishing his Mansion and ianjamespiano going into a room with a piano and not stroking the ivories. I started watching the videos of the iPAD 3 as consolation. Went to the gym to get rid of my buzztouch belly and came backto find it already UP! Looking forward to familiarizing myself with BT's new site, I already prefer the white background

I am on the eve on my new job and I got round to checking forum and loads of new messages and well wishes. The person who interviewed me is no longer with the company which caused much concern but the American VP is over and will be training me so I feel very lucky, its a fledgling business in UK so risky and fun- this is enough to drive away any mid life crisis. Although I did watch Sons of Anarchy and could see myself on route 66 with a gang of BT users riding mean and correcting syntax of code where they go. This job will be the stability in which I will be able to invest my spare time on apps. Each app submission posted drives me on and I am amazed on how professional many are looking. I am impressed on how there is an internal fraternity on the forum who are really pushing BT 2.0 Self hosting. The post on JSON and PHP and network structures is great to read and shows a future playground I really want to be part of. At the moment happy in kinder garden 1.5 on the safe swings with soft turf under my tush. When I go to the top 25 forum posters I see that I am next to Javooo who's forum pic looks uncannily like my smile, I am not sure whether to post a more professional forum pic that makes me look like Gorden Geko from wall street- Greed is good - apps are good. I don't want this job to make me like those annoying company men who are continually worried about there linked-in profile and get into networking contacts rather than just making friends. If this happens I will put an appeal out to work in anyone's surf shop preferably somewhere hot waxing boards and getting all point break.

BUZZTOUCH is bad for your Health First I developed the Buzztouch Belly Now I am suffering the Buzztouch withdrawal symptoms - I wake up at night in a cold sweat, having a nightmare that Macapple, GoNorthwest, Fred, Sven, Raoul etc.. are all in some nightclub celebrating there 100th app. Google are buying them out and this is the celebration party, Parker is working as a bouncer and wont let me in for all the cheek I have given his bandana forum pic. David is the barista making awesome coffee, Macapple is drunk on fine whiskey, Sven is on the karaoke singing abba songs with Ianjames doing the music, fred is on the bronco thing while GoNorthwest is writing a manual on how best to get optimum motion using Pythagorean theorem, Raoul is being Spanish suave chatting up some hot chica - and Parker still wont let me in. I wake up and want to check whats going on I am so glad I have this new job, its a start up USA company doing wind turbines, find the people friendly and fascinating. I get one hour a day to work on apps, so I am feeling very left out the party, but glad I have some stability.

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Only able at present to spasmodically work on apps, so trying to focus on making a new app and trying to keep up with all that's going on in the forums. I have a idea for a truly unique app and need an illustrator and someone experience in integrating with social media. I would love to do a collabrative app and although I think I could do it on my own it has two negatives, wouldn't be as good and wouldn't be much fun. One crazy idea is to make each contributor a stake holder so that it become like a share issue but is earned with input rather than money. A problem is that once the app is discussed the cat is out of the bag. I believe in trust but maybe I am being naive. I am also getting amazed at how many of the users are progressing and really developing, just looked at black white app it looks extreme commercial http://itunes.apple.com/app/thuc-on-cho-be/id514228422?mt=8 My job is involved with wind turbines and I have to say I am dealing with farmers, the nicest customer base ever. During a sales meeting in a field , whilst guiding cattle into a pen, I had to take stock that not only am I lucky to be in a new job but also the only bull shit is bull shit. I am a lucky man