I’ve now owned an iPhone for the better part of 4 years (with a short stint as an Android owner. That’s another story). As long as I’ve owned an iPhone, I’ve wanted to become familiar with developing apps for it. But the wise minds at Apple decreed that to be part of their beloved developer program, you had to own a Mac. As a guy who builds apps for a living, I already own like 4 computer (nerdy. sexy. me). Unfortunately not a one of those is a mac. So i’ve been waffling back and forth for years on taking the plunge and buying the Maseratti of home computers. A mac isn’t like just any other laptop. Its easily twice as much as a comprable windows based laoptop, its sleek, and will no doubt bring the ladies to the yard when I’m sitting at a Starbucks working on this thing.  So it was not an easy decision to buy this damn thing. But I had to. Because I want to build iPhone apps.

So here’s what I’m going to do. Since watching me code is sort of like watching Michaelangelo create the David (or maybe more accurately watching a first year plumber’s apprentice named Al clean out a clogged kitchen sink. But whatever), I’m going to catalog my process of creating my first app. I’ll keep it light on the technical since most of my readership (my dad, some Russian spammers, and a handful of other distinguished readers) don’t necessarily care about the ins and outs of building an app. So here’s entry #1:

I’m downloading the iOS SDK (v4.2). The freakin thing is 3.5 GB. Am I downloading an entire season of Red Shoe Diaries? This toolkit better be the jam. Anyways, this is step 1 towards getting my iPhone domination underway. I reck0n it’ll be after New Years until I get any work done on this thing. So check back next week for another entry!