Collaboration Chronicles

Last night was the first return Workshop Wednesday after a long hiatus. My friend, Jeremy, and I ate bread, cheese, shawarma and homemade salsa with chips while we worked together on software for a couple hours at my house.

Jeremy is an mechanical engineer. We share the same day job. He has an iPhone app that is on the iPhone Store, but it’s not doing well mainly due to the plethora of bugs and his unwillingness to update. He’s moved onto better things. Like what we worked on last night. I haven’t spent much time with the iPhone development environment (XCode) or Objective C programming, but the syntax is somewhat familiar. It’s like a cross between ActionScript and C++. Needless to say, I was able to clear up some of the important parts of his code quickly and get what he wanted. The result was a program that echoed back through the speakers whatever came in through the microphone.

We spent more than half of the time talking about the reasons to use threads and how to use them properly. We did this while talking about what we were going to do next on this project. I can’t wait for the next Workshop Wednesday so that we can start writing some real code for the ideas we keep spouting out on paper, and the prototypes we keep making in Flash.

If you have something to work on, but need some inspiration or just people to work around, stop by at our next Workshop Wednesday. This is an incubation program for propagating our ideas and inspiring new ideas.