Longrie dot Com LLC

Terry's App Garden

About Longrie dot Com LLC

Longrie dot Com LLC is the business personality of me, Terry Longrie, an iPhone, Macintosh, Java, and web based software developer located in Milwaukee, WI USA. I have been working in the software industry since 1993 primarily in the area of supply chain management software. If you own a PlayStation, have purchased a DVD, or have ever driven an Opel automobile then it is likely that software to which I contributed has played some part in the process of getting these products from the factory to the store.

Since 2005 I have been working independently on continued supply chain management software projects, a web based e-commerce platform known as Moonlight eCommerce (on which this web site is hosted) and since the Spring of 2008 on iPhone applications. While certainly a popular trend I believe the iPhone and iPod Touch have shown the way to a new, more ubiquitous, computing platform. Rather than just being a phone that happens to do a few other things the iPhone has turned things completely around and is really a general purpose computer that also happens to make phone calls. This paradigm shift, along with the iPhone's pocket-sized mobility and unique input mechanisms (the touch screen, accellerometer, location awareness, and now even a compass) allows for immense flexibility and creativity during application development.

I imagine that, having visited my site, you also share in my enthusiasm for these devices. I hope you will enjoy the products of my development efforts. If so, please recommend Longrie dot Com LLC and my apps to your friends, neighbors, and anyone else with an iPhone. If some aspect of an application is not to your liking or just plain isn't working please do not hesitate to get in touch. Feedback, whether good or bad, can only improve the quality of my applications so let me know what you think!

Sincerely,

Terry Longrie
Longrie dot Com LLC

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Why iPhone?

When I attended college at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in the very early 90's there was these Software Engineering I and II¹ classes that served to teach one how to work on a real-world project rather than writing small programs to learn specific computer science concepts. Instead one was expected to work on a team, create a schedule, test procedures, and of course finish by the deadline which was the last day of class. One was expected to use big-project tools such as make rather than running gcc by hand and using source code control (at the time RCS was big) rather than keeping around various .orig, .old, and .this_one_really_works versions of your code. All-in-all a pretty good class that definitely helped me get my first real job.

At any rate, first day of this class was to choose a project to work on. You see, just like the real world, you didn't just start coding something from scratch. Instead, the professor had a whole batch of different projects available that had been worked on by students that had taken the class in prior semesters. it was up to you to choose a project and then implement additional features as defined by the professor. Many of the projects were X-Windows based applications which at the time meant low, low level X as there was no GWT or Qt back then. A couple were PC/Windows 3.0 based apps, and then there was one, just one, NeXT project. I had seen the single black NeXT Cube machine that often sat unused in one of the EMS building's 7th floor labs and knew right then and there I wanted to work on that. [...]

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