I had very low expectations because payment was on the honor system, but people would mail me checks on a regular basis. These all look trivial to me today, but at the time I was overwhelmed. There was also a problem with System 6 compatibility that was a bit tricky to resolve. I was also concerned that my binary was getting too large at one point (it was almost 36K, yes kilobytes). It seemed like I was spending way too much time reading documentation and fighting to make certain controls to work on the dialogs. The Mac APIs were tricky to learn and I stumbled about with the development process. What went well? What could have gone better?.Evolutions was my solution to this problem and I decided to make it generic enough for others to use it. My business partner had a company that used an IBM System 34 minicomputer and he was always downloading text reports that couldn’t be imported into Excel without preprocessing. Where did you get the idea for the app?.If people found it useful, I asked them to mail me $10. It was available for download on many Mac bulletin board systems at the time (no App Store back then). Other apps at the time were slow and took minutes to process large text files and Evolutions parsed most in under two seconds. It was a text parsing app that allowed people to take plain text files, typically reports from other computers or services, and convert them into delimited files. What was the first app you created and what did it do?īack in 1986, I wrote a shareware app called Evolutions.
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When Lightspeed C (later known as Think C) came out in mid-1986, I bought the multi-volume Inside Macintosh developer documentation manuals and dove in. I bought a 128K Mac as soon as they were available in 1984 and fell in love with it. How did you get started in Mac and/or iOS programming?.We make MoneyWell and Debt Quencher, personal finance apps to help improve people’s lives. I’m the Chief Cook and Bottle Washer for No Thirst Software LLC.
Kevin is the founder and lead developer at No Thirst Software.
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