I finally decided to pay my cash and join the iPhone developer program. It’s a fair amount of cash, but I thought that I’d take the plunge and thought that it might give me more of a push to actually create applications for the iPhone. Also, it means I can compile applications and put them onto my iPod Touch!

So I’ve managed to get my current development application up and running on my iPod. It’s called ipCalc and it’s designed for network admins who constantly use the command line tool, ipcalc, to find various bits of information about the subnet they’re working on. The maths behind the code is pretty straightforward, but hard enough that it gave me some design issues to overcome. But it’s now looking pretty good and I’ve been cleaning up the code with the aim to (hopefully) submit it to the iTunes App Store. It would be absolutely awesome to get something on the App Store!

Also, here’s 3 screenshots from my app actually running on my iPod Touch – yay!