Well, my first "real" app in my mind was an international clock for Mac OS X. This was back when OS X was brand new and wasn't even the standard operating syste

Well, my first "real" app in my mind was an international clock for Mac OS X. This was back when OS X was brand new and wasn't even the standard operating system on Macs, so I really didn't have any good existing options. I had a lot of friends in different time zones and I had trouble keeping track of who was likely to be available at a given time, so I made an overlay dashboard that I could glance at to see what time it was in whose area. I'd made a bunch of little games and DHTMLy web pages before that, but that was the first one I thought of as an app I'd made.