Badly treated blog

Apple Systems make Development sweet.

yendor — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:58:13 +0000

Since the spring I have gotten more and more fond of apple machines and have a Mac mini and a little MacBook. The primary focus is Objective-C and it’s making my head slowly spin less. I manage about an hour a day effective time and I would like to do more.

When the new iMac’s come I hope I can get one and replace my desktop.

Development wishes are like authors quirks.

yendor — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:39:31 +0000

There’s a lot of things that goes into a developers setup and I find it similar to an authors quirky needs when writing. I myself need a lot of screen real-estate and want my development machine to be at least a 2 screen setup with as wide a screen as possible. I like my lines long and unwrapped.

About me first, I started to poke at development again after a few years of next to no coding. Partly the reason is that I’d like to get a lot better at developing things and partly because I need to keep my brain more active if I am to stay sane. The brainfog that comes along with my condition is making it hard to focus and I can’t quite fit things into my head like I used to which probably is a good indication that I need to step things up slowly.

First things I had to do when I started was to pick a language and a platform. This might seem like an easy choice to a lot of people but the main focus of my effort is mobile platforms and I have experience in Java that would be useful for Adroid development while the iOS is so very wierd yet still so very appealing. Since I had to refresh things I spent probably 6 months reading a few books on both subjects and got some way into the basics again before I started to try and setup the development environment.
Now all who have developed in Java know how many little things you need to pull together most of the time and a lot of things need to be done. It’s very powerful and customizable but that is also a bit of a problem since you need to do a lot of little things before your environment is the way you want it. Apples Xcode on the other hand is a very finished product and has a very painless and slick feel to it that eclipse just doesn’t have.
For the first time in my life I felt put off by the “do it myself” harder solution and just wanted it nicely packaged and easy to get going.

Having set things up as I want them I find myself very happy and a lot more concentrated even in my unfocused state.

Back from hibernation

yendor — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:22:19 +0000

Been sick for such a long time and with my brain being slow to say the least I haven’t cared much at all about this poor blog.

Probably would be better to start over from scratch if it wasn’t for the whole lazy and tired bit

Twitter Updates for 2010-07-12

yendor — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000

@Totalbiscuit in my experience it's 14 days to each way. But I won't have anything to do with BT ever again. in reply to Totalbiscuit #

Twitter Updates for 2010-06-14

yendor — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:00:00 +0000

@mikeschramm probably read it but "snow crash" is pretty spot on that. in reply to mikeschramm #

Twitter Updates for 2010-05-22

yendor — Sat, 22 May 2010 03:00:00 +0000

Nu har jag testat Valkompassen och fått veta vilket parti som ligger närmast mina värderingar. Testa du också! http://bit.ly/brLoyb #
Don't think I've followed Swedish politics enough to say for sure but it looks like I'm in the liberal camp atmo. #

Twitter Updates for 2010-05-20

yendor — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:00:00 +0000

@Jeremy_Clarkson I guess the snow must have been bad in Chipping Norton in reply to Jeremy_Clarkson #

Twitter Updates for 2010-05-15

yendor — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:00:00 +0000

@mskold Kanske fastnar i lianen? in reply to mskold #

Twitter Updates for 2010-05-11

yendor — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:00:00 +0000

I'm a dad again. Stig is a nice 5.35 kg (11.8 pounds) and 60 cm tall. He came 16.04 bst at home and all went well. #

Twitter Updates for 2010-04-01

yendor — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:00:00 +0000

Sitting nicely watching "Big cook, small cook" with my 2 year old. He's done a poo and is rebuilding lego. Perhaps I can nap now? #
Sleep good… sleep nice #