Chicagoan into technology, entrepreneurship and creativity.

Brand new greattimeapps.com is up!  Oh so many apps…

Brand new greattimeapps.com is up!  Oh so many apps…

Beautiful Afternoon (at 600 West)

Beautiful Afternoon (at 600 West)

My dad throwing away a small museum of computing…explains a lot about the way I am

My dad throwing away a small museum of computing…explains a lot about the way I am

Revamped the BYOB App tumblr Today

Lots of great themes out there.  Went simple and made it easy to get to the app store.  5 cities (with more in review with Apple!).

Who’s ready for six flags? My new guide app is out today!  Cc: @janers6 @repawlow

Who’s ready for six flags? My new guide app is out today! Cc: @janers6 @repawlow

My manual hack of our office’s kitchen drawers is going strong a week later (at Lightbank)

My manual hack of our office’s kitchen drawers is going strong a week later (at Lightbank)

Elevated - now available in the App Store

Elevated - now available in the App Store

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So I’ve played with Red Foundry for a while to make such classics as the BYOB App - Chicago, but you can also pop-out android apps with a few tweaks.  I googled around and it’s not super easy to find a way to make a .keystore file for your android app when you don’t know what you’re doing.

Here’s what I did:

1) Open Terminal (I did this on a mac)

2) Type this:  keytool -genkey -v -keystore mykey.keystore -alias coffee -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

replacing “mykey” and “coffee” with you app names/key name.

3) Answer the questions about your name etc…

4) You’re done.  The .keystore text file is now on your computer.  Get excited.

TH: @stackoverflow for the starter

I think we overstayed our welcome…amazing dogs tho (at Franks ‘N’ Dawgs)

I think we overstayed our welcome…amazing dogs tho (at Franks ‘N’ Dawgs)

Quit GE 1 year ago today.  Been the best year of my life.  New startup.  Married. Left start-up. Started new one.

Quit GE 1 year ago today.  Been the best year of my life.  New startup.  Married. Left start-up. Started new one.