Sunday, June 26, 2011

Curse you iOS!!

This weekend has been pretty interesting. I spent a good portion of it trying to get my rails/mysql project into some free hosting. When I finally was able to get my DB stuff setup and start on moving my rails project I found out that the crappy hosting site does not support RAILS3. This was very disappointing. Later I start talking to my dad to get some him started on the iOS section but it sounds like he is going to be a bit busy with another application. So it appears that I will be working on this by myself for a while....but at least I can hold off from remote hosting. I think I will give heroku a try by I dont like the idea of being forced into POSTGRES.....oh well perhaps it won't be too bad. Anyways...I started on the iOS application and it has once again reminded me why I hate objective-c. The syntax/culture is very very frustrating....one doesn't call a method on a class...you message the class. If you are coming from .NET this all seems very silly. Anyways I got my first button to work so I think Im going to call it a night. Tomorrow Im hoping I can figure out how to do controller switching and maybe create a data access layer to my web service.

Friday, June 24, 2011

mySQL Rails3 fail

Apparently I am running into a common problem with Rails 3 and mySQL in that something is wrong with the adapter. I have been trying to get this to work for about 3 hours now and I think Im going to give up for the night. Apparently I can't even use the sqlite adapter now. Perhaps tomorrow will be a bit more productive.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

My first iOS and RoR adventure

Soo...its been a while since I have blogged and since Im starting a personal software project I think I am going to give it another shot. If I can make myself blog about its progress then perhaps I will get into the habit of it. My project is a social game of sorts that Im hoping will be fun (for me as the developer and for potential customers). I have been wanting to get into iOS dev and also Ruby on Rails and I feel this is the perfect opportunity to do it. I will be working on this with my dad who is professionally an embedded software developer who has been learning Objective-C on the side. Im hoping this will help me out since he actually has a published application and Im looking at a lot of work for this project....plus I get to write code with my dad....how cool is that.