Since my return from Argentina I’ve been overrun with various projects I’ve been working on in my spare time in addition to my full-time job. I began working at mFoundry in March of this year as an iPhone developer. mFoundry produces a lot of financial applications including mobile banking and gift card applications. Now that my general life load has lightened a bit my attention was drawn to my abandoned blog. So now I’m taking a shot at jump starting and bringing it back to life. I’ll be highlighting different things that I’ve taken an interest in the past year over a series of posts, each concentrating on a different topic. My first topic will be regarding the Starbucks Mobile Card Application!
Starbucks Mobile Card
This project as a great learning experience for me. I developed iPhone client side of the application. I was given an initial design and went to town on getting it implemented. There were quite a few redesigns in the process of getting it put together in addition to some API changes that needed to be made on the Starbucks side in the process. I ran into some design issues having to work around Apple’s UIKit limitations in order to get the results that I wanted for some rounded corners among other things. I won’t go into too many details, but I may post topics in the future regarding development road blocks and how I got around them in the future. However those posts will be limited to side projects I’m working on in order to protect company IP. All in all, I consider this particular application to be the most fun (albeit tough) project I’ve worked on to date.
In September, mFoundry and Starbucks officially launched the Starbucks Mobile Card Application. There was a lot of buzz coming from it’s release. A lot of people were enjoying using it, and it was a bit of fun to check out the blogs too. I even got some really excited looks from some old friends in USF’s computer science dept. when I told them I helped create it.
You can find more information and a link to the app at the Starbucks website.
You can also read about the app making #1 on the BTN Top 10 Companies and Technologies of 2009.
