With this weekend’s brisk temperatures, it seems possible that “sweater weather” has finally – FINALLY! – descended upon New York City (knock on wood), and I’m looking forward to what I hope will be a very productive few months on the app development front. I’ve got one client booked and have begun working on what I think will be a pretty cool app. I’m keeping the details on that project scant for the time being, but I will say that my client is a successful small business looking to engage more directly with its customers and grow the brand, and I think the app will help achieve both those goals. I’ve also been in discussion with a few arts-based organizations and hope to unveil one or more visual art apps in the near future.

I also want to take this new season as an opportunity to give credit to Ansca Mobile and their fantastic Corona SDK, without which I wouldn’t be building apps at all. They have managed to create an easy-to-use, quick-to-learn development environment that opens doors for people like myself, and I’m pleased to see all the success they have been achieving in recent months – including last week’s announcement that they have been selected as one of FASTech’s 50 most innovative startups for 2011. I had a great meeting recently with a gentleman who has been successfully developing iOS apps using Xcode and Objective-C, but who is looking to add Corona to his digital toolkit. This is a guy who already knows how to make apps the “old-fashioned way,” but who can see that Corona has a bright future and is looking to take advantage of its rapid development cycle – it’s a real testament to Ansca’s growing influence that it is drawing attention from successful app studios. And despite Ansca’s rapid growth, they still take time to support little guys like me. (Only last week I had a helpful email exchange with Ansca CEO Carlos Icaza.) Keep it up, guys!

Wow, this is the first post I’ve written in months. Here’s hoping that this autumn will see new apps, new partnerships, and so much news that I’ll be forced to keep writing here on the site. Thanks for reading, and happy fall!