Some Thoughts on Apps

For the past month or two, I’ve been tossing around this idea of creating my first app – and ever since my discovery of Visual Studio Community, the desire to create my own app has doubled.  Strange, considering I’m not an avid app user.  I do have social media apps like Pinterest and Tumblr on my phone; I’ve downloaded things like Piano Composer and various collage maker apps, only to play around with them once and then delete them.  I don’t know if apps just don’t hold my attention or if I just haven’t found ones that are useful to me.  The only apps I use regularly are Google Maps and my weather app – very practical.  I guess it makes sense, then, that the app I want to create is a practical one.  I want an app that will help me keep track of my tasks, whether it’s homework, cleaning, or grocery shopping.

2LifeWeddingsScreens-1And I know there are dozens like that already out there, but you look at any one of them and they’re so…blah (and kind of a pain to use).

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My First Look at Visual Studio Community for Web Design

Having previously played with Dreamweaver for web publishing, I was a bit apprehensive to try Visual Studio Community.  I was not won over by Dreamweaver in any way — sure, it has some nice features, like live view, but overall I just found it more of a hindrance and ended up hand coding my site all in code view.  So I was not overly excited to use a different WYSIWYG editor.  But, as I soon found out, Visual Studio Community is way beyond that.

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