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
2. Background • Engineering degree from UofH • Fell into programming • Fell in love with it • .NET developer from 2007-2014 • Started iPhone development in 2012
3. We’re programmers.
4. Programing is hard
5. Programing is frustrating
6. Programing is rewarding
7. The Hard
8. A different kind of Hard
9. The Frustration
10. A different kind of Frustration
11. A dangerous kind of frustration
12. The Rewards?
13. My Enterprise life
14. 1 type of end user
15. Same team, project for years (and years)
16. The Mobile Life Credit to Marcus Zarra’s SME talk.
17. 2 forms this can take You make your own flappy bird. You make someone’s invoicing app.
18. A new team possibly every month
19. Like flying?
20. 1-3 month projects
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.
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.
23. A mile a minute.
24. Hard to keep up with, impossible to learn it all.
25. Pick 1 skill/aspect of the platform, become a subject matter expert.
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.
27. Get Involved. Keep up with the yearly OS updates, conferences, new device features, frameworks. Join the local mobile groups, 3 here in Houston.
28. Lessons Learned.
29. Have an escape (or two)
30. Things I don’t miss.
31. NO SQL
32. NO TFS
33. Things I can’t live without now
34. Git
35. Bash
36. The Mac (and its ecosystem)
37. Programming is a Grind
38. Less of a grind when you’re at home, happy, on a Mac and making mobile apps.
39. Tools
40. Git gud
41. The Source (tree)
42. The Kraken (release it?)
43. Tower
44. Use git command line
45. Xcode theme…r
46. Push it
47. Paw
48. Icon Builder
50. Localize
51. Localizer apps
54. When you want it gone
55. Looking for apps to make?
56. Thank you