Back to XCode

Breaktime is over, and I'm already reading, watching, and coding!

First, good news.  I'm having some more spare time, and hope this is going to speed up my learining process.  I still have not got any specific outcome regarding my part-time job, but this will be known very soon, practically on Tuesday, June 7th.

Another good news.  WWDC is opening tomorrow, and though not attending I'm very excited to see all the updates, announcements, and keynotes to be available online.  Of course, Steve Jobs keynote, which is set for tomorrow, is my primary interest, also the details about the upcoming products and services.

And finally some not so good news.  I've decided to free up some space on my laptop's hard drive this morning and deleted the old XCode 3.2 thinking what could possibly go wrong?  Well, something has broke, and my blank template file produces errors and won't compile!  More so, all the examples I've coded before produce the same type of error:  XCode 4 can't find links to <iostream> and to <iomanip>.  I've tried many different things, but my best guess is that those libraries were from XCode 3.2 installation, which is now gone.

So, why that last news is not really a bad one?  Because on my main MacMini everything works just fine (I had enough luck not to delete XCode 3.2 from it), and I also have backup of my laptop, so I hope to recover what I've deleted.

Glad to be back!))

iPad 2 Is On Its Way!

This week's greatest news was of course the iPad 2 event on March 2nd.  I was delighted to know that Steve Jobs himself presented the thing, and over all the keynote was quite impressive.  I am definitely to become iOS developer!  I like the fact there will be cameras, more power and the gyro -- those are the things which I'll definitely take into account.

Speaking of programming, it wasn't a big learning week for me, but rather 'settling down' and getting the skills sharpen.  I was also taking a quick break for 3 days to get done with one highly captivating reading, 'Under the Dome' by Stephen King.  Still got one last chapter to read, and I know I'm better to be done with it soon, because this means returning to programming soon as well! :)

Apart from the reading and Apple event, the final touches of the basic redesign were applied to the SimpleBeat web-site.  Now I can concentrate on fine-tuning the minor details and develop the visuals.