Take your ideas and try to find something similar that is already out there. Do your research on that particular company or product to see what programs they us

Take your ideas and try to find something similar that is already out there. Do your research on that particular company or product to see what programs they use and how they work. Analyze their past performance and what changes they have made. Reach out to them to ask how they did it. Once you have enough information on the toosl they use, go reasearch those tools and methodologies. Find the user groups and forums. Look at how to download and install their tools and runn through youtube and google to find tutorials. Buy some books for the major coding platforms you are interested in (iPhone sdk, Android, etc.) start going through the tutorial books. You check tech sites way too much, so you might want to set a hard time limit on how much time a day you spend browsing. Make sure you "produce" something every day. Whether it is a simple table view app or a sprite animation, have something that you can look back on at the end of the day that works. This helps keep you moving forward, and gives you the fulfillment of building something. You might not always build something relevant, but it is important to do it. That's all I have right now. Good luck!