I got an email from Apple this morning that Lexikon was approved for sale in the App Store. You can find out more on the page I created for Lexikon
It should start showing up in searches and such in a day or two, but for now you can access it directly using this link: 
It took about a business week to get approved. I submitted it in the mid-to-late afternoon on Monday for Cupertino and had approval on Friday for them.
This has been a week of finally opening my mouth about some things and then almost instantly my plans change. I’ve decided to tweak the icon design some more, incorporating elements of the previous design with the new. Here is a screenshot of it from my iPhone.
In addition it looks like I won’t be able to spend much, if any, time on Lexikon this week. I’ve had a bunch of work from clients come up, which is always a welcome problem to have. That means it could be 2009 before Lexikon hits the AppStore since it sounds like approval times are longer due to the holidays.
I attended the iPhone Tech Talk in Stockholm. It’s all covered by the NDA, but you can see on Apple’s site that the American talks had three tracks and a lab and the European stops had one and a half tracks. They had to cover the full spectrum of attendees in most sessions. There were some interesting things discussed though and the trip was worthwhile. Maybe I’ll get in trouble, but one thing is it would’ve been nice if the food/refreshments were served in a better area, they had one small hallway/foyer outside the main lecture room and then a longer hallway by the other room. Made it hard to network or at least find the developers on your level when you were either packed in like sardines or spread out in lines along the walls. Next time I think I’ll be more proactive about using the Stockholm Cocoaheads group to get in touch with the right people.
One of the biggest things about optimization is covered by Loren Brichter in his post about Fast scrolling with UITableView.
There is still a few things I want to do with Lexikon before I am ready to release it. I’m optimistic that this can happen this week. Then we’ll see how long Apple takes to turn around and approve it. In the meantime here is the icon design that I came up with this week.
I got word on Tuesday evening that I get to go to the iPhone Tech Talk in Stockholm. This is exciting as it should prove useful information, much more than when I attended WWDC in 2004 on a student scholarship as I am actively programming on the platform. It’s good to hear cause we live in Falun which is about 3 hours away from Stockholm and so now arrangements need to be made for somewhere to stay, and to make the most out of the gas money, visiting our friends and my wife’s brother and his family that live in and around Stockholm.
It’s also a good time set in stone to work to having Lexikon finished or almost complete so I can possibly show it off. I’ve made progress in that direction with starting to get the database in place and the main word list UI. I think all the remaining tasks can at least be roughly in place for the tech talk, which might prove useful to get a blast of information to help polish things off. The other great thing about the tech talk is it should be a great place to network. I have some contacts in the IT industry in Stockholm, but not really for what I’ve been doing with web development and not anything Mac or iPhone related.