Rooster App

“Cock-a-doodle-do” - the rooster

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Version 1.0

Level Complete. Only thing missing is a launch image -_-

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At the finish line

About to cross it. Putting the finishing touches and then sending it off to be sacrificed to the volcano known as Apple.

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Name Change?

App might need a name change. Something to muse about...

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While developing the Rooster App, I discovered that Apple’s UILocalNotification only allows you to repeat notifications with the standard NSCalendar measurements including weekly, daily, or secondly. The current framework doesn’t allow much customization. :(

The Objective

I needed a...

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First Morning With Rooster

Last night, after a battle with UILocalNotification, I pushed a demo build of Rooster to my iPhone. Worked like planned. Hit the button and left it on my bedside.

At 6:08am, in South San Francisco, CA, the Rooster woke me up.

Unfortunately, I didn't stay awake due to the lack of sleep. But alike an actual Rooster, I crowed regardless.

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Soon.

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Easy on the Eyes

Time to make this a little prettier. Just for sanity sake!

git checkout --branch first-design

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Basic Functioning Prototype Complete

RoosterApp alpha v0.0.1 tested successfully!

The app finds your location, calculates the local sunrise time using your longitude and latitude info, and schedules an alarm for sunrise! We'll all be waking up with the sun. Very soon...

Now time for a little shut eye.

Love, Mike + Team

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Comparing NSDate

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NSDate * dateOne = [NSDate date]; NSDate * dateTwo = [NSDate date]; if([dateOne compare:dateTwo] == NSOrderedAscending) { // dateOne is before dateTwo }

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Get Midnight for a given date in Objective - C

Just send in a NSDate:

- (NSDate *)midnightForDate:(NSDate *)date { NSCalendar *calendar = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar]; [calendar setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone systemTimeZone]]; NSDateComponents *dateComponents = [calendar components:NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit fromDate:date]; [dateComponents setHour:0]; [dateComponents setMinute:0]; [dateComponents setSecond:0]; NSDate *midnightForDate = [calendar dateFromComponents:dateComponents]; return midnightForDate; }

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Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

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Running a little late

I'm just finishing up a Mac App Store app. Will be on the Rooster very soon.

Love, Mike

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With Rooster, things like this would be so simple!

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When you use Rooster...

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Our Unorthodox Workflow & Break #1

One odd convention of this project: We only work on it when all creators are present or working on it simultaneously. We'll commit to this workflow for the beginning at least. This keeps everyone at the same dedication level whether they're marketing, business dev, developer.

Since the Rooster App birthed as a moonlit project, we'll treat it as such - until we pivot into a more active workflow.

No, this is not ideal, but it tests a few key things about the team before everyone gets all gung-ho and we start passing out t-shirts. (which would be awesome...)

We're testing:

If all members are equally dedicated.

Can we work together and build something? (Chemistry...)

Also, doing it this way prevents any creator (especially the higher-appraised developer) from fostering any early resentment against the other creators. Considering that development takes a lot more time in this infant stage, we're going to keep everyone's dedication level.

Until we reconvene later this week. Cheers!

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Note to self:

Dear Self,

Stop being a noob and learn some vim. ...but for the purposes of this project, use sublime to edit your Podfile.

Sincerely,

Self

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