CyberStudio Apps

CyberStudio Apps came about as a hobby.  I like to write computer programs but didn’t have an outlet. Then I saw a book about writing Android™ apps for beginners and figured, I could do that…  Little did I know where that thought would lead me.  That was in January, 2013 – I started learning about writing Android apps, using the Java programming language, and many other Android things.

The Foot-Inch Calculator is the first (and only thus far) app that I’ve written, I will continue to write other apps as well as improve the Foot-Inch Calculator to add lots of functionality including alternate measurement systems such as meters but also weights and volume too.

Who Am I

I am no one special. Just a guy doing my job and trying to keep out of trouble. I am a licensed architect and, as a hobby, I write computer programs.

As an Architect, I work on a variety of commercial projects including single tenant retail buildings to new, regional malls (150,000 square feet to 300,000 square feet), and mega malls (5+ million square feet Ibn Battuta mall in Dubai) .  I’ve been working in architecture since I graduated from Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo in 1981.  I became a license Architect in 1986.

Besides commercial buildings and malls, I’ve worked on a variety of other types of buildings such as Airports (San Diego International), Grocery Stores (Albertsons, Food 4 Less), Hardware Stores (Osh), and Electronics Stores (Circuit City) as well as many Apartment buildings in the Los Angeles area.

As for computer programming – well this is probably because of my father who, for most of the late 50’s and and 60’s repaired big iron computers for IBM – he eventually transitioned into a technical writer for IBM – maybe you read something that he wrote – maybe…

I’ve been writing programs since my college days at the end of the 70’s.  I took a computer programming class where I learned to make FORTRAN 4 programs on punch cards which ran on a new IBM 360 and Basic on a Dec PDP11.  Since then, I’ve written hundreds of programs – mostly utility programs for the business computer at my first job.  I have no real commercially released programs.   But this is about to change…

I’ve written an app for the Android phone.

The app is a foot-inch calculator.  Not a real earth shaking app – just a simple calculator that works with feet and inch numbers – as well as regular numbers of course.

Please checkout the website for my app here.