But first, if you found this blog because you play Full Tilt Poker and you want software to analyse your poker hand history, welcome! The launch of the software is scheduled for June 30th.
Now the astonishing news. I added Google Analytics to this blog before I posted a single article. What amazing information does Google Analytics have for me after just 1 week? That people are finding my blog already by searching for terms to do with analysing poker hand history files.
I didn’t expect this. I’m blogging for myself, and for others to follow along as I launch a product after little more than 1 month’s development time. Now I realise that this blog is also a marketing opportunity.
Today is the official start of the 30-Day challenge. So let’s all discreetly pretend that I didn’t jump the gun and get a head start. Shhh!
Today I worked on getting the build process complete. The OS X Leopard DVD includes a whole bunch of developer tools. I discovered, thanks to a previous comment, that one of those tools is PackageMaker. These tools also include an excellent article describing how best to package different types of OS X apps. Yet again I’m glad I’m using a Mac these days.
I also found an excellent tool online called BuildDesk. It creates distributions for Java apps. It creates Windows builds and Mac builds. It handles compiling, packaging the code into a jar, creating a native wrapper, obfuscating and creating the installer. I gave it a test, and I think it is great value. After spending a few minutes watching the online demo and another 30 minutes of trial and error, I have ready-to-install distributions for multiple platforms.
BuildDesk does seem to focus more on Windows, because it doesn’t quite finish the process on OS X. But a short shell script I wrote takes care of the last couple of steps of creating an Internet-aware DMG.
PS: Thrynn, if you are there, please send me an e-mail.