Plaques + SimCap = A Busy Week

It's like the tired old joke about buses: I wait months (no, years) to release any applications, and then suddenly along come two at once.

First, on — I think — Monday, late, my second iPhone application Plaques, eventually limped into the App Store. Where it was promptly buried on page 4 by a slew (correct collective noun) of near-identical travel guides. Since then its sold a couple of copies but generally not done very well.

And then today we have SimCap, my first proper grown-up OS X app. It's a deceptively simple little application which does some eye-wateringly nasty stuff with window buffers and uses an NSOperationsQueue and everything. (In my spare time I've been trawling StackOverflow for questions about NSOperations being either delayed or cancelled, so I can chime in and suggest the poster checks for typos, because it sounds like they've accidentally sub-classed NHSOperation... this is actually a very funny Cocoa coder joke.) I'm really very happy with the way this has turned out.

So all in all a pretty busy week. I know, it's really amazing the lengths I'll go to to avoid my NaNoWriMo obligations.