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Apple let me know that MMA Tracker was approved and ready for sale. It was looking good until I found out it’s still not on iTunes pending contracts. I’ve given them all the necessary information and mailed some documents to their office in Austin, TX.

I probably should have used FedEx instead of Canada Post. Oh well live and learn.

Hopefully they get there soon and Apple acknowledges them so I can get this app into iTunes.

MMA Tracker has been in review for just under a week now. I got a note from Apple yesterday saying it was rejected because they found a crashing bug I had missed. I fixed it and re-uploaded a new binary. Hopefully this doesn’t take too much longer.

I’ve finished up my first iPhone application. It’s called MMA tracker and is for keeping up to date with latest event, news and fighters in the world of Mixed Martial Arts. I’ve submitted to the iTunes App Store and it’s under review now. Barring any issues, it should show up in the near future. Watch it for, buy it, tell your friends to buy it too

It’s a simple program that queries a PHP based web service with the various event and fighter information. News is pulled via RSS from MMAWeekly.

Although the application wasn’t very complicated it was challenging to write as it was my first Objective-C project and I had never worked with XCode either. I definitely learned a lot. Looking forward to improving this application and writing new ones.

Here is a couple of screeenshots:

Heard back from Apple last week, they wanted my company articles of incorporation. Today I got a call and they told me that I’ve been accepted into the iPhone Developer Program. Glad that is finally taken care of.

Expect some news about my first application soon.

Been almost a month since I enrolled in the iPhone Developer Program and I still haven’t heard a peep from Apple. I guess they still have a big backlog but this is kind of ridiculus. It doesn’t take 30 days to get in MSDN or any other developer program I’ve ever been in.

The Mac I ordered last week is supposed to arrive today. Looking at the FedEx site and tracking the package I see:

What happened to my package?

No updates in 5 days. That inspires confidence. I’ll have to call FedEx in the morning and see what is going on. If it got lost/stolen, I wonder what Apple will do. Could be looking at next week or later now.

In other news, still no response from Apple regarding my enrollment into their iPhone Developer Program. I heard there was a backlog. No idea when I’ll hear anything about that either.

Not off to a good start here.

Update: FedEx delivered the Mac today. No idea why their site wasn’t updating though. Now if Apple would just confirm my enrollment in the iPhone developer program, I’ll be all set.

I have been really impresed with the iPhone since I got it. So today I got a new Mac and applied/enrolled in Apple’s iPhone developer program. Going to try and write some cool apps.

Stay tuned for more information.