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Lesson Learned: Coding should be left to professionals

15 points by alexpatton 14y ago

Normally, I leave coding to developers. However…. Playing around in the middle of the night last night when I couldn't sleep, as my first app, I was writing the ultimate Droid Valentines Day App.

nswanberg 14y ago
Poor guy. I bet he's already getting emails about this but an Android dev out there would do well to help him out by sending some flowers to his wife, help him with his code, and write a blog post about it.
bdc 14y ago
Your life will be made much easier when the Singularity arrives.
STHayden 14y ago
I get an Internal Server Error. This is all very meta.
- nswanberg 14y ago
  Hah, yes, though having something interesting to say does not correlate with the ability to host a blog (assuming it's his). http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/02/09/why-i-dont-host-my-own-blog-anymore/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/02/09/why-i-dont-host-my-own-b...
- dmoney 14y ago
  And there was an error in handling the error! "Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
hartator 14y ago
I can access it via Google cache : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fozeanmedia.com%2Fozean_interactive%2Fweb-design%2Flessons-learned-in-mobile-app-development%2F&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fozeanmedia.com%2Fozean_interactive%2Fweb-design%2Flessons-learned-in-mobile-app-development%2F&aqs=chrome.0.57j58.2603&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
rcavezza 14y ago
"My wife does not appreciate the automation of the expression of love."
ColinWright 14y ago
Because I'm lazy, and figure some of you are too ... Normally, I leave coding to developers. However ... Playing around in the middle of the night last night when I couldn’t sleep, as my first app, I was writing the ultimate Droid Valentines Day App. The app was to run during Valentines day and with random time intervals, send texts from an array to my wife such as "I love you", "Thought I forgot Valentines, day didn’t you?", *etc.* Lesson in App development In my attempt to write an app & automate my life, I thought I would share some things I learned: 1 Test, and then DAMN IT test some more. Especially, if you are writing code in the middle of the night. 2 You really should put a min wait before looping again – random to me is different than random to a computer. 3 You should put a max time wait before looping again – random to me is different than random to a computer. 4 You should learn the difference between seconds and milliseconds <<– !important 5 In this case, once a variable from an array is used, you should eliminate it from being used again. If you don’t get 1-5 right, it is possible for your app to send 75 texts in less than 5 minutes in the middle of the night. My wife does not appreciate the automation of the expression of love.
alexpatton 14y ago
A new lesson learned: the power of hacker news! The traffic took an entire server down. Never underestimate the power of making fun of yourself and shining a light on your mistakes!
alexpatton 14y ago
http://ozeanmedia.com/ozean_media/social-media/if-you-mess-with-reddit-or-hackernews/ http://ozeanmedia.com/ozean_media/social-media/if-you-mess-w... I APOLOGIZE!!!! UNCLE!!!!

15 points by alexpatton 14y ago

Normally, I leave coding to developers. However…. Playing around in the middle of the night last night when I couldn't sleep, as my first app, I was writing the ultimate Droid Valentines Day App.

nswanberg 14y ago

Poor guy. I bet he's already getting emails about this but an Android dev out there would do well to help him out by sending some flowers to his wife, help him with his code, and write a blog post about it.

bdc 14y ago

Your life will be made much easier when the Singularity arrives.

STHayden 14y ago

I get an Internal Server Error. This is all very meta.

nswanberg 14y ago
Hah, yes, though having something interesting to say does not correlate with the ability to host a blog (assuming it's his). http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/02/09/why-i-dont-host-my-own-blog-anymore/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/02/09/why-i-dont-host-my-own-b...
dmoney 14y ago
And there was an error in handling the error! "Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

hartator 14y ago

I can access it via Google cache : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fozeanmedia.com%2Fozean_interactive%2Fweb-design%2Flessons-learned-in-mobile-app-development%2F&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fozeanmedia.com%2Fozean_interactive%2Fweb-design%2Flessons-learned-in-mobile-app-development%2F&aqs=chrome.0.57j58.2603&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

rcavezza 14y ago

"My wife does not appreciate the automation of the expression of love."

ColinWright 14y ago

Because I'm lazy, and figure some of you are too ... Normally, I leave coding to developers. However ... Playing around in the middle of the night last night when I couldn’t sleep, as my first app, I was writing the ultimate Droid Valentines Day App. The app was to run during Valentines day and with random time intervals, send texts from an array to my wife such as "I love you", "Thought I forgot Valentines, day didn’t you?", *etc.* Lesson in App development In my attempt to write an app & automate my life, I thought I would share some things I learned: 1 Test, and then DAMN IT test some more. Especially, if you are writing code in the middle of the night. 2 You really should put a min wait before looping again – random to me is different than random to a computer. 3 You should put a max time wait before looping again – random to me is different than random to a computer. 4 You should learn the difference between seconds and milliseconds <<– !important 5 In this case, once a variable from an array is used, you should eliminate it from being used again. If you don’t get 1-5 right, it is possible for your app to send 75 texts in less than 5 minutes in the middle of the night. My wife does not appreciate the automation of the expression of love.

alexpatton 14y ago

A new lesson learned: the power of hacker news! The traffic took an entire server down. Never underestimate the power of making fun of yourself and shining a light on your mistakes!

alexpatton 14y ago

http://ozeanmedia.com/ozean_media/social-media/if-you-mess-with-reddit-or-hackernews/ http://ozeanmedia.com/ozean_media/social-media/if-you-mess-w... I APOLOGIZE!!!! UNCLE!!!!