Life of a Mobile Developer

My short description of a change from Enterprise .NET Office/Cubicle based career to an at-home, Mac + Mobile development career and tools that can help.

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1. Life of a Mobile
   Developer
   Lessons learned, tools, tips and tricks
   Mark Wilkinson
   

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2. Background
   • Engineering degree from UofH
   
   • Fell into programming
   
   • Fell in love with it
   
   • .NET developer from 2007-2014
   
   • Started iPhone development in 2012
   

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3. We’re programmers.
   

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4. Programing is hard
   

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5. Programing is frustrating
   

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6. Programing is rewarding
   

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7. The Hard
   

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8. A different kind of Hard
   

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9. The Frustration
   

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10. A different kind of
    Frustration
    

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11. A dangerous kind of
    frustration
    

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12. The Rewards?
    

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13. My Enterprise life
    

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14. 1 type of end user
    

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15. Same team, project for
    years (and years)
    

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16. The Mobile Life
    Credit to Marcus Zarra’s SME talk.
    

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17. 2 forms this can take
    You make your own flappy bird.
    You make someone’s invoicing app.
    

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18. A new team possibly every
    month
    

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19. Like flying?
    

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20. 1-3 month projects
    

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21. Dealing with new clients.
    Sized up the second you walk in.
    You’re coming to solve something they
    can’t.
    Plethora of dev personalities they
    have, know what to expect.
    

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22. Recognition? Ha
    Their app may take off in the app
    store.
    You still get paid the same, then move
    onto the next client.
    That’s okay, this is what you signed up
    for.
    

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23. A mile a minute.
    

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24. Hard to keep up with,
    impossible to learn it all.
    

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25. Pick 1 skill/aspect of the platform,
    become a subject matter expert.
    

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26. Examples?
    Keep having to do CoreData? Be the
    best at it, you’ll be the go to.
    Love and keep up with Swift? Become
    the Swift SME in your group.
    

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27. Get Involved.
    Keep up with the yearly OS updates,
    conferences, new device features,
    frameworks.
    Join the local mobile groups, 3 here in
    Houston.
    

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28. Lessons Learned.
    

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29. Have an escape (or two)
    

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30. Things I don’t miss.
    

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31. NO SQL
    

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32. NO TFS
    

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33. Things I can’t live without
    now
    

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34. Git
    

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35. Bash
    

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36. The Mac
    (and its ecosystem)
    

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37. Programming is a Grind
    

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38. Less of a grind when you’re at home,
    happy, on a Mac and making mobile apps.
    

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39. Tools
    

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40. Git gud
    

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41. The Source (tree)
    

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42. The Kraken (release it?)
    

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43. Tower
    

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44. Use git command line
    

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45. Xcode theme…r
    

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46. Push it
    

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47. Paw
    

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48. Icon Builder
    

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50. Localize
    

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51. Localizer apps
    

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54. When you want it gone
    

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55. Looking for apps to make?
    

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56. Thank you
    

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