This website is going to be home to my iPhone App Development, but first, a little bit about who I am and what I do.

My name is Jarrad Edwards, and I am a 22 year old developer living in Tauranga, New Zealand. Over the past 5-6 years I have taught myself many different programming and scripting languages, over a few different platforms.

How did all this come about? When I was younger I had a huge curiosity about how things worked, and being the natural born wrecker I am, I also loved to pull things apart. It began with a simple website, yep plain HTML with tables it was, either way, I took some source code, hacked it up, moved things round, until I was happy with it.

From there the curiosity expanded, and likewise the technology did too, slowly progressing and learning CSS and JS (note: I was still at school while learning this), also around this time, I started playing with VB6, this was great fun, writing an actual program that could be executed.

I got a bit bored with VB6, and moved back to the websites, where I began playing round with MYSQL & PHP, this was awesome fun, learning how databases worked in general, and how the relationships of data work together.

After a while of learning PHP, I took a bit of a break (being a teenager at the time, what more can I say), I then got back into websites when I left school to study at Polytech, this was up until my first job locally here in Tauranga, with a company called ReserveGroup. While working at ReserveGroup, I coded Website and Newsletter Templates for a CMS system, but this became really repetitive very quickly, and I felt that it couldn’t take me any further than I was already. So what did I do?

I left Tauranga, to go and live in Auckland, with hopes of progressing further, which I did at AIM Proximity. Here I learnt Flash AS2 & AS3 and also picked up XSLT, got my hands dirty with some Java back-end. AIM was a really creative agency, but sadly after a year and a half with them, I decided to leave when the team was downsized by half, and the workload remained the same.

Now I am back down here in Tauranga, where I have spent the last 3-4 months learning the iPhone SDK (and also learning some C/C++). I have just re-released my first application (NZRSS, based on the NZ Herald application that I wrote and then pulled, due to issues with NZ Herald). I hope to release my second application over the next few weeks, so check back here shortly on progress.