Voices that Matter iPhone 2009: Day 0 Continued

I finally met up with Jennifer and James a little after 6:30pm. James got a little lost locating the Cub Quarters. Sadly, he suffered from what I suffered earlier; the GPS just doesn’t work in downtown Boston. Trying to follow the GPS myself earlier in the day, I managed to watch myself teleport all over the map, which basically didn’t help me locate the hotel. Ultimately, I got to the hotel after I pulled out the paper instructions my wife printed up for me the night before my flight.

The three of us wandered down to Quincy Market, but didn’t settle on anything in the facility, since finding a place to sit was nearly impossible (being a Friday night). We wandered out not too far from the market into a nice bar/restaurant and had a nice catch up dinner conversation. I was speaking to James and Jennifer about how my real life job had kept me from doing much iPhone development, and how I’ve grown rusty. James had similar feelings, and mentioned that he had been wanting to write a simple 2 minute timer application. A challenge was then posed, what can we write this evening? So, after dinner we headed back to our hotel rooms, and we began coding. Admittedly, for something that sounded so simple, it was rather tricky, and it served as a nice refresher for me. I managed to make a weak 120 second count down timer, it worked. but looks rather awful. I’m just proud of being able to have gotten that much done, and feel more encouraged to continue