Happy Christmas to everyone! I hope everyone had a great time, and will continue to for whatever holiday they have left.

I’ve had a pretty decent time this Christmas, I’ve met up with a few old friends, still need to see one of them, done a bit of work but not enough I’ve really fallen behind on that, and I’ve also messed with my server to aid in development stuff. So I shall address these things in order (if there is such a thing).

Christmas

I suppose it’s only fitting to put this section first as it is probably the biggest thing that’s going on at the moment. I returned home to Reading to my parents house for Christmas on 17th December, I had a meeting in London on 18th December with The Pavement to discuss an iPhone app which went pretty well, I do think I shall be around London a fair bit in the coming months. I got back to my parents finding it had snowed while I was away which was great but it did play absolute havoc with traveling which was great fun!

Moving on a few days I met up with a few friends, spent a day in Reading in Starbucks which was probably a mistake as I came home with a coffee high which I admit was great fun.

Along came Christmas day and I come downstairs a little late I admit due to going to sleep later than I wanted, open the usual presents of clothes, sweets, and some cheques which is good, and then while tidying up my dad turns around to my mum and said that he was certain there was another present for me, I was confused to say the least. He runs off upstairs and then comes back with a moderately large sized present, I was just lost at this point, start to unwrap it and notice a bar-code with the code A1297 under it, I knew I’d seen that code before and it suddenly hit me that it was an Apple code the brown box confused me but I was sure.

I opened the box to find a brand new Apple 17″ MacBook Pro which just took me completely by surprise. I was not expecting to get a new machine for Christmas but it turns out the my parents took pity on my MacBook Pro slowly dying on me. After all that surprise we sat down for a meal later that day which was awesome, I want another one!

Development and server

During this holiday I left Lincoln with the intention of doing as much of my uni work as I could, as it happens I’ve done nearly nothing towards my uni work. This has annoyed me as I had it all planned out, and I have a lot to get done including my first two chapters of my dissertation, and my live production writeup, oh for the want of more time to get this done!

I have started to re-read my “Programming in Objective-C 2.0″ book to try to get around my head how certain things work in the language. I have also bought another iPhone development book called “iPhone Game Development – Developer Reference” which is a Wiley book. I’ve had a read of a few parts of it and so far I’m pretty impressed with it, we shall see if it actually helps me or not however, I am thinking about getting a few more of their books as they are pretty good.

To make sure I don’t loose any of my development work I’ve spent some time on setting up Subversion on my server along with Mantis issue tracking software, this should enable the guys at The Pavement to help me out with some of the stuff to do with the project, and also so I don’t need to constantly make sure I have all my code with me wherever I am. If I can access my SVN server then I can access all my code. I’ve managed to setup Xcode 3 to work with my SVN repos so I don’t even need a separate SVN client.

I’ve also had a bit of a mess about with updating the server, but for some reason updating Apache, and PHP managed to break the entire server so I had to restore from a backup image. All sorted again now, and all updated with a little more speed added for fun.

Well I think that about ends this stupidly long post, hopefully the next one will actually have more of a point to it

Adam

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