App Archives - A Father of Twin Boys

The great thing about having kids, is seeing Christmas through their eyes. And I have always been a big kid, but now I get to take it to an entirely new level. For the last few years, usually during church (Lord, please forgive me), I would email Norad to find out where Santa was and when he would be stopping by my house. And no, I never disclosed the fact that I was an adult emailing NORAD for myself. NORAD does a great job with this and does an outstanding service of providing information to little kids or in my case, an adult. And yes, I did download the NORAD Santa Tracker for my iPhone so that I could keep constant watch about Santa’s whereabouts.

If you have never taken the time to read the story about NORAD Santa Tracker, please take a few minutes to do so, by clicking here.

And please visit their site here and download their apps if you have a smart phone. I know, that I’ll be emailing them to get an update Monday night to find out where Santa is and when he will be stopping in my area.

I’ve been developing websites now for over 10 years and I’ve wanted to try something new, developing an app. Nothing crazy. Nothing that I would ever try to sell through either the Apple Store or Android Store. So, the time has come.

I have started laying the ground work for the first app that I am going to develop. It will be children focused and hopefully can help parents. The idea behind the app is whether or not your child should go to the Emergency Room or not. I am currently in the phase of planning out the development and what topics that I want to go in at launch and the basic look of the app.

The first major decision that I did make though for the app, was that I was doing a web based app and not one that is native to the phone. This was actually a pretty easy decision after looking at trying to develop two separate apps for the Droid and iPhone and iPad. So now that that decision has been made, the process becomes a little easier.

Once I get further alone in the development, I’ll share the app here.