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Sorry for the 3 month dry streak.

I was fired back in, think it was August? . I then had a three month “paid vaccination”(it was in my contract that in the event I was fired they had to pay me for 3 months but I didn’t have to come to work…sweet). Did some consulting work, mostly to have something to do. Then I thought to my self that this was an excellent time to set a dream of mine in motion. I come from a background in computer and electronic engineering.

In my Flash/Java work I always had this strange feeling in the back of my head going “At some point this is going to break or perform strangely, and I have no way, other that trial and error, to figure out why”. This is harshly put, but I have been used to dealing with µControllers, the C language and copper-wire  for a long time and even though I appreciate things that “just work” as much as the next guy, I also feel the complete despair when it does not and you have no way of getting “under the hood”.

Im probably being ignorant and if I would I could sit down and read up on every nook and cranny of the runtime, then I would be the all-omnipotent, all-mighty and know-it-all master of… a nook.

My previous job involved building Flash apps for the AIR  runtime environment, I know, I know, that is asking for trouble(2007-2009), and my only real choice of an editor was Eclipse. Im a Mac user and that just “grinds my gears” to have to use some “lowest common denominator” GUI for what I do with most of the hours Im awake.

I have a duality in my that dictates that I love building stuff for the internal intricacies and that I only can enjoy software, furniture, food TV series etc. if I know the order and beauty that governs the inside also governs the outside, i.e. I like good design on both the inside and the outside.

So how do I get to work with µControllers and hardware, beautiful interfaces and have a set of development tools that doesn’t hate me and gives me a stack dump when I ask for it?

I have become an iPhone developer!

OK, plan… by rationing my means I can sustain myself for almost a year. In that timeframe I should be able to (a) learn Objective C (b) get a few apps in the store (c) go down new roads and be happy:)

So for the last three months I have been developing an app that will _blank_ for _blank_ when you go _blank_, with a designer called Mino, which is a secretive guy, hence the _blank_

Now we are close to a Beta version and I my head is exploding with pieces of info that I would like to put on the blog. Im at the state of learning a new language where I bought the first “pattern book”, which means I did a lot of “ahh this seems to be the way to go” only to go “ahh so that is how I should have done it” a few hours later. Well, to cut it short, I don’t think there will be a lot of AS – Java stuff on the blog in the time to come, but I hope to keep doing the visual experiments and give out some code snippets.

I’ll surely move on to building some Mac software afterwards, I like the tools, the Apple frameworks has the standard of the Apple hardware (95% perfect and 5% “WTF, this took me forever and now it’s broken again”) also I get the “complete package experience” that I was missing in my other endeavors.

So please spread the word that Im up for crazy and exciting projects, both here in DK and abroad.