It’s been awhile since i’ve posted about iPhone development but things are going quite well. My first project is on the back burner for now due to some technical issues but my second project is looking great. I have most of the basic functionality in place for a 1.0 release. I may add a few more features, but I still need to clean up the UI a bit before it’s ready for primetime. I may add a teaser image of my second project’s app icon later…
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Apr 09
iPhone Development Rambling
A couple of weeks ago I took the plunge and signed up for the iPhone Developer program. At the time I signed up I didn’t actually own an iPhone or iPod Touch and the plan was that I would to do all development using the iPhone Simulator that comes with the iPhone SDK. This idea was going well until last weekend when I decided I wanted to play around with one of the fancy features of the iPhone/Touch, the accelerometer. I discovered that the simulator unfortunately does not implement the functionality of the accelerometer.
So that was depressing until I found this, it appeared like it was exactly what I needed, a way to simulate the accelerometer. But after spending a day trying to get the setup to work and output meaningful data, I gave up on that route. That was when I bit the bullet, I ordered a refurbished iPod Touch from Apple’s website.
Slight tangent, I have to say that I recommend Apple’s refurbished products to anyone looking to save money on an Apple purchase. Refurbished products come with the same warranty as non-refurbished products and in most cases are indistinguishable from what you get when you buy new.
Development has been going well on my first iPhone project which is actually a rehash of my first cocoa app, an app that was unfortunately never released because of some functionality issues. I also have some plans to create an iPhone version of decline. The challenge will be trying to figure how to refactor the UI to work in an iPhone/Touch environment.
Stay tuned for more iPhone Development Rambling as I figure out all the ins and outs and differences between Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.
And now your moment of zen:
21
Mar 09
Decline on the Rise
I recently resurrected a piece of software of mine called Decline. Decline is a Leopard only Hotline Client that is forever stuck in beta limbo. Hotline, for those not in the know, is an old P2P protocol and amazingly there are a few Hotline servers still in existence. So anyhow, Decline can be downloaded from the Software page.
09
Mar 09
Trigger
He who preoccupies himself only with machines is apt to become like a machine. Doomed to repeat tedious routines; routines without meaning or substance. But what if there was a crucial event, a catalyst, that changes everything.
08
Mar 09
Switched From MT back to WP
The Dashboard in Wordpress is very very nice and i’m really digging on this new theme i’m using, Clean House. MovableType was decent, but finding things in the backend was an exercise in futility. The fact that MT is geared towards using multiple blogs brought about unneeded complexity since I only need one blog.
08
Feb 09
The Darkness is Rising… Spoken Word?
I was inspired by my friend Danny Machal to create a spoken word version of The Darkness is Rising. I may have gone a little over the top with the sound samples, but what the hell it was fun. 
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13
May 08
The Darkness is Rising
The darkness is rising
The fog rolls in
The lighthouse reveals
Those washed in sinTheir black flag
A warning of death
The scourge of the seas
Disease on their breathEnormous in numbers
Swarming like rats
Tearing the country asunder
They make their attackLooting storehouses
And chopping down men
The hunger
The bloodlust
It beginsA human plague
That cannot be stopped
Those that have tried
They dropped
Like fliesThey take only
What they desire
The rest is discarded
And consumed by fireWhere once stood a hearty land
Now lies complete desolation
Death, destruction wielded by their hands
Total devastationA cautionary tale to thee
Keep a watchful eye on the sea
And at a seconds notice
Be ready to flee
13
May 08
Bass, Bass, Bass-ed On A True Story
So i’m pretty bad when it comes to impulse buying and after seeing Floater again I got it in my head that I would like to play bass. I feel like I should be able to play an instrument, even though technically my voice is an instrument, I need that tactile feeling. I attempted to learn guitar in the past, which wasn’t very successful but I feel that the simplicity of the bass will make it an easier instrument to learn. I also plan on bugging my friend Seth to help me with the bass as well.
Anyways I ended up buying this bass from musiciansfriend.com.
And of course I chose the black model, because black is metal, but sadly it will be a few days before I have said bass in my hands. I curse thee UPS ground shipping! But I suppose you can’t beat free shipping.
28
Jan 08
Software Page
Created a new software page where I hope to have some of my own software soon. Currently it contains a precompiled binary of shx for osx.
07
Jan 08
Transitory State
People come
People go
Where they’ll end up
They don’t knowPeople come
People go
Where they’ll end up
Somewhere below