累

生活很累

我們都過得很辛苦

然而

再怎麼辛苦

卻也要咬緊牙關

步步向前

因為

那是我們嚮往的

新生活

公司的活動

公司的活動，大家都要一張蠢照

R. I. P. [2]

[趁著 All Hands Meeting 無聊的檔，繼續寫...]

這次回到屏東，看到了很多很久沒有見到的親戚

某種程度來說，這次回去是我的客語聽力複習時間

很久沒有在這麼短的時間聽到這麼多人一直在說客家話了

這次還遇到一個很有趣的姑婆，好像是媽媽的姑姑

可是她的年紀跟媽差不多

她說話很有自信，然後很擅長星座分析

一直在那邊分析大家的星座

[太危險了，人超多，晚點再來寫...]

R. I. P.

外婆走了

很突然的消息，雖然似乎是大家意料中的事

不過還是讓我覺得很難過

兩個月前，外婆中風住院

某次回高雄時順便去看看她

躺在病床上的她，看起來很虛弱

記憶中那個外婆已經不在了，換來的是經過歲月摧殘的虛弱老嫗

其實當時大家就有心裡準備了，外婆可能撐不久了

回到台北，工作的壓力，璀燦光華的台北市，

讓我暫時忘卻了這件事

直到上星期四的早上，睡夢中的一通電話…外婆過世了

突然！

除了突然還是突然，一時讓我不知道該怎麼反應

還是很冷靜的進公司，交接工作，向主管請假

搭下午的高鐵返回高雄和爸還有弟弟們會合

本來和佳約好的周末出遊計畫當然也不可能去了

公司正值出貨前趕品質的時候，主管也有點不知所措

不管了，就留給他們處理了

回到屏東老家，外婆躺在內堂，看起來非常平靜

就像睡著了一樣，只是大家都知道，外婆不會再醒過來了

因為舅舅們都搬出去了，老家平常不會有人在

對那兒的印象很淡

依稀記得，以前曾經在這兒的大堂跑來跑去，玩起捉迷藏

可是那記憶已經淡到自己都不是很確定那是我想像出來的還是真的發生過。

三合院大門的雕飾，穿堂裡可以直接看到的樑，門檻的浮刻、雕花，…

對這兒的清晰印象，應該是二十年前，外公走的時候

那時只記得大家都哭的很傷心

當時還住在桃園，父母連夜開車趕回屏東，小孩們在車上睡著了

當時在內堂裡送外公最後一程，懵懵懂懂的我根本就不知道發生了什麼事

是很後來才知道，外公過世了，所以以後的生活，不會再有外公坐在穿堂抽菸的樣子了

(to be continue...)

身材

雖然我沒有非常在意我的身材

不過說不在意那也是騙人的

至少，會希望維持在一個平均的程度

前陣子又趁著新蓋的大安運動中心開幕半價優惠

跑去健身房玩了一下

肌肉有比較緊實的感覺 (當然，也是痛的要死…太久沒做了)

不過既然現在有個這麼方便的點

以後可以常去練練身體

Reader review of "The Business of iPhone App Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed"

Reader review of "The Business of iPhone App Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed"

I am pretty lucky to be a review reader of the book,

The Business of iPhone App Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed
ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4302-2733-5
ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4302-2734-2

It takes me three weeks to read this book. Actually, I was not interested in this kind of book because I thought this should be some marketing problems. As an engineer, I used to think about how to write a good App but to introduce my App to others.

I really recommend this book for those people who gonna start their first Apps with out experience on selling stuff on Apps Store, and the people who encounter problems when marketing their Apps.

This book contains 10 chapters. The first four chapters are talking about how to settle your mind and how to prepare before you really start your Apps. The following three chapters are discussing about the marketing of your Apps. The last three chapters mentions some awareness people should know about their Apps.

There are many useful ideas in the book for those people just starting. For examples, you should name your Apps within 12 characters since that is the maximum characters can be showed on an iPhone, and you can give a brief free edition to test will the customers love your idea before you put all your mind on the development.

I like the Chapter 6 which is talking about the business model. It gives many useful ideas for observing the market environment. Different types of Apps models should have different strategies to sell well. It separates the business models as Content, Functionality, Services, and Subscription.
Take subscription model as an example, you may give different periods for user to subscribe your Apps. If they like your Apps, they can buy a long term, or they can buy a short term for testing.

After all, I think it's a book for people who just starting their first Apps. It really helps if you want to earn some money from Apps Store.

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This article also can be viewed on my facebook blog.
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雨林咖啡

圖片來源：小小書房|樂多日誌

佳送了我一包雨林咖啡，
內裝是阿拉比卡咖啡，據說是公平交易豆
✖公平交易豆：簡單的說就是貿易商以合理(謎：較高)的價位，向農民買進咖啡豆，不從中獲取暴利 (康啾兒：Believe it or not...)

中午吃飯的時候帶去公司附近的 Karma 咖啡，
店員很好心的幫忙磨成粉，
所以下午就用簡陋的器具，先泡一杯來解解饞啦！

咖啡沖泡的時候顏色很深，味道還算 ok
泡沫還蠻漂亮的
入口的第一個感覺是這咖啡的味道好溫和啊！
酸味和苦味都沒有特別的凸出
不過入喉的韻味到是令人印象深刻
在嘴裡的香氣停留很久都還沒散去

整體來說還算不錯
不過價位就.... orz

個人評價：★★★☆

夢想

人生總有許多夢想，

總會想要抓住它，想要擁有它，

但是真的能夠擁有的又有幾個呢？