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Full OneDayApp Series

Learn how to transform yourself from web developer to mobile app building machine in less than one day! This series will walk through the entire development cycle of a full product that can be sold in the app store.

Price: $60.00

If you have the OneDayApp series and the code for Local Note that it comes with here are some tips for 1.0.

Local Note Code PhoneGap 1.0 Upgrade Tips

1. You don’t have to do anything.  If you don’t want to upgrade your app to 1.0 then you don’t have to change anything. This is, in fact, the easiest option.  The code from OneDayApp should continue to work with the older builds of PhoneGap that you had installed.

2. The cleanest path to upgrading your app is the following set of steps.

A. Make sure Xcode is closed when you install the latest PhoneGap. (I Recommend an uninstall first. )

B. Install PhoneGap 1.0.  Follow those instructions.

C. Create a new project from scratch.

D. Migrate your apps files over to the new project. Note that new directory layout and location of the icons and splash screens.  It’s OK to overwrite the sample files.

E. Point your script files to the new Phonegap script library.

F. Don’t forget to minimize the phonegap script when you ship your app. The newer builds of Phonegap are not pre-minimized for you.

G. Make sure you migrate your plist file settings, enable location, turn off acceleration detection (if not in use), and only enable the services your app is using.

H. Update the plist settings for bundle ID and name before you submit to the store again.

I. Don’t forget to test on a real device as per usual.

If you have an issue with OneDayApp and PhoneGap 1.0 don’t hesitate to let me know.

Thanks,

Josh

What do you think about http://www.kickofflabs.com?

I’m sure you’ve all seen messages like this one I received trying to be an early adopter of Google+.

There isn’t even a link that tells you to log out and log in with an account that works.  Of course, I understand that it may take time to integrate Google+ so that their PAYING customers can use it but YouTube…

Well, at least they told me what I can do about it. But, come on, how long have they owned YouTube?

What is KickoffLabs?

All new businesses are experiments that start with customers. You don’t know if your idea is going to work, but you know you need customers to make money… whether it’s through ad sales, subscriptions, or walk-ins buying your bagels after you’ve set up shop.  KickoffLabs both simplifies and reduces the costs of the online part of your experiment.

Tomorrow I’ll be hunkering down to work with our first customers, spread the word about KickoffLabs  a little wider, and work on features for the next deployment. 

For now I’m enjoying a nice glass of red wine in celebration…  But we’re bootstrapping, so it’s a cheap bottle.  

Why are you still reading this? Go sign up for your site today!

Goodday is a great app. Has huge potential. Very useful for keeping track of goals but also tracking moods, virtues I’m working on, and vices I’m trying to overcome. – Jay

An excellent tool. I use it repeatedly throughout the day with GREAT success – I’ve reached some pretty lofty goals lately. This app has helped greatly. If you want to stay on track with an aspiration or two, or more, this lets you quickly and easily track your efforts. I had started a googleDoc to do this and when I found it I bought it immediately. It’s simple, clean, clear and incredibly easy to use. In addition, I’ve submitted a number of enhancement requests that I hope will be considered. Even without them, in just two weeks I’ve managed to maintain a high level of awareness and consciousness of my personal goals by updating my assessments throughout the day.Aid my efforts to do my best and achieve my goals? For $0.99 cents? Yeah, I’ll buy that for a dollar. – msg_man in an app store review.

I am a writer and Good Day is a useful calendar and motivational tool.  It helps me track my morning writing hours. - Alexandra

It’s great to be helping people that also believe change comes from simple daily goals.  And yes, now that OneDayApp has shipped there will be another GoodDay update that takes more customer suggestions.  In the meantime… what do you want to track and change?

You’d probably expect the link to the paid version of the app to have a decent click through rate, but you probably wouldn’t have guessed that the ads for Local Note and OneDayApp each have a click through rate of over 15%!  That’s only 3% less than the 18% click through rate I get for the advertisement of the paid version.  But it’s also 14% higher than the non-house ad click through rates!

That tells me that the thousands of people who downloaded GoodDay free share a worldview with me as a product creator. Because of this I’m upping the percentage of ad space dedicated to my house ads dramatically and may cut non-house ads altogether since people obviously aren’t finding them worthwhile.

Speaking of ads… this is just one of the tips you’ll find in my OneDayApp series.

Full OneDayApp Series

Learn how to transform yourself from web developer to mobile app building machine in less than one day! This series will walk through the entire development cycle of a full product that can be sold in the app store.

Price: $60.00

• In the great depression the government invested in serious forward looking infrastructure that included large scale projects from efforts like TVA. The best we can do with billions of dollars now is repaving highways that Eisenhower built? That’s not innovative and it’s not going to make a bit of difference in the long run to the US economy. Where are the massive forward looking investments at a national level?
• Lou Malnatis makes some seriously good deep dish pizza around Chicago. I’ll be ordering some from http://www.loumalnatis.com/ to share with Gretchen.
• Minnesota is covered with wind-farms on farms as far as the eye can see. It seems that they are encouraging it pretty well by making it worth everyone’s while. FWI – I felt a lot of wind around the rest of the country as well that wasn’t being used.
• I will never complain about a 4-5 hour flight across the country again.
• Chicago felt like a city with a lot of energy on the verge of a new renaissance. Looked like more high tech companies around the city than I imaged.
• Cubs fans are at least as crazy as Red Sox fans. After a 2+ hour rain delay that everyone spends drinking in a bar (in team apparel BTW) and they still packed the house.
• I didn’t see a single Window Phone 7 device outside of the one my friend had once we left WA state. I think all 1.3 million of them went to Redmond. A LOT more Android phones than iphones around though outside the cities.
• In a west coast city Starbucks it’s 90% Macs. In the middle of the country it’s 90% windows. But they are starting to use iPads and Kindles EVERYWHERE.
• If you want to know what it’s like to visit another planet… go walking around Yellowstone national park while it’s snowing outside. Crazy.
• 3G coverage, even on ATT, was nearly everywhere. We streamed an MLB game all the way from Seattle to Missoula MT only a couple of hiccups. (Yes, it was the same game for nearly 6 hours. ) The worst coverage was in Yellowstone and, for some reason, upper Ohio. Those people seem to live in the stone ages. But I never expected to be able to stream audio consistently from coast to coast.
• Other than the lack of cell coverage Yellowstone was awesome… even in the middle of what felt like a blizzard.
• The best roads were not tolled. Where does all the toll money go?
• If you can stream internet radio coast to coast why do we fund public broadcasting anymore? Can’t anyone have their own show on the internet for the price of internet access?
• I still can’t believe how quickly local news can travel around twitter. Found out about the Cubs rain delay and official start times by just running a twitter search for “Cubs” and watching the chatter. There’s location based opportunity though since their “by location” feature sucks. It goes too narrow. Opportunity++? (Nevermind. Twitter told me they’d poke out my eyes if I built a twitter client. )
• Searching for food is more fun on Foursquare than Yelp. Foursquare seem to index tips and user comments. Yelp sticks with the basic business description. Example: Search for cookies in both apps. With Foursquare you’ll actually find out where you can get fresh baked cookies.
• Driving on the top of the Tetons was awesome.
• Photosynth, on the iPhone from Microsoft is awesome. Just wish it saved in higher resolutions.
• Thought I was standing in the middle of an Apple ad. In Pittsburgh I literally saw a dude put headphones on someone and play them his demo from an iPad 2 with garage band.

If I ever do this again I’m turning around after the Badlands in SD. There is nothing more to see after that other than this…

http://davidwalsh.name/twitter-dropdown-jquery

One of those simple touches is the "Login" dropdown on their homepage. I’ve taken some time to duplicate that functionality with jQuery.

It’s simple, lets you embed whatever you want in the dropdown menu, and is easy to add slick animations to if you like things that move and shine. Thanks David!  We’ll be using this technique in the KickoffLabs site designer.

Lately I’ve been enjoying the use of the adobe ideas iPad application. You can see some of my recent scribbles below.  My goal was to try and communicate the blog post concept visually in under a minute of effort.  Sort of like tweeting an image.