Alex (of Codefab fame) and I met through one of his intensive iPhone Developer Boot Camps. Let me just say that when they say intensive, they mean it.  From “Hello World” text to database integration in three days. Best thing that came out of it for me was meeting Alex. And after a few conversations, it became clear we were destined to partner together. At MagickBox, we had a number of concepts and designs worked out but we needed someone like Alex and Alan (his secret weapon at Bad Dog Apps) to go from zero to sixty. Between them, they had endless lines of proprietary code ready, willing and able to be applied.

Our first app was not our original choice to go out of the gate with. But since the execution of that app was to be an emailable postcard, we decided to build iGreets first. Once the foundation was laid, we could then move on to the more ambitious app we had planned on - coming soon.

Another of the reasons for building iGreets first was that the Apple community had long been lamenting the passing of the late Apple iCards, which had been discontinued upon the switchover from .Mac to MobileMe.

We were fairly bug-free throughout the process but discovered a pesky hitch in the SMTP’s gitalong. It seems that when the postcard was delivered to Apple Mail, it showed up fine. But in Microsoft Entourage or Outlook, it came up blank. It worked seamlessly with the simulator builds but on the iPhone, it became a problem. No worries though. It’s always something and we got that bug out in time for launch. And the rest is history.  Now that iGreets has launched, we’ll be creating a few extensions as well as the aforementioned more ambitious app, which should be very exciting. We’re creating some new touch functionality that should prove very cool in the next few weeks! Cross your fingers.

‘Nuff said. Excelsior!

Rob