Every summer I like to do a personal project which lets me explore new challenging tasks. Last summer I wrote a Java 2D game from ground up. This time I have decided to try something similar with iPhone. I´m starting out with Quartz 2D then maybe move over to OpenGL ES or a popular framework. I’m going to post my game concept with some drawings soon.

This is a picture of the same basic strategy that I have used previously in my last project with good free game art resources.

I’m currently working hard to deliver a fully advanced Ajax application for a Norwegian company, which I will post a video about. This is a new project that I´m working on for a friend of mine. He wanted a simple iPhone app for his new opened sandwich store. The purpose of this application is to let users view his menu and store information.

The user interface is very simple, which I will eventually change in the future but for now you get the point. No database used here I’m currently learning to use Core Data with SQL lite but the application is pulling data from a simple array in the application code for testing purposes only.

I’m going to use SQLite tutorials to build a simple DB and get saved product information.

This book is highly recommend for those who love Zombie Movies

I just finished reading the book on my Kindle 2. This book is a must read for everyone who love movies like “No Country for Old Men”. A Movie of the book is soon to be released next year.

This morning, I was one of few lucky web developers who got a Google Wave Invite from Google itself ! Google Wave is really cool, you should try it out when it’s out!

For me to enjoy Google Wave, I had to give away my 8 invites to friends close by so that we can try it out. The invites have to be verified, If you have an invite, add me to your contact list on Google Wave: milladd@googlewave.com.

Thank you Google !

I had the opportunity to be a volunteer at JavaZone which is Scandinavia’s biggest meeting place for software developers, and one of Europe’s most important. JavaZone has been described as a high-quality, independent conference, and is a forum for knowledge exchange, recruitment and branding which lasted for only two days.

I had a great time there, watched allot of lectures about programming, web development, design, and the future. I was also one of the lucky ones, Bekk for instance had a code refactoring contest where I won a handbook of agile software craftsmanship called “Clean Code“. I also won a HTC Hero Mobile Phone from JavaBin.

I did also play with Microsoft Surface, which I found pretty cool, unfortunately it’s a bit big at this point to have it in the living room.

You probably have allot of music content in your iTunes library. I usually have allot of duplicated music files available, and it is quite annoying. If you use the iTunes show duplicate feature, it will only show you duplicated tracks. The feature will not allow you to remove them easily. You have to select manually each track and remove it.

Download this AppleScript file and place it in your Home – Library – iTunes – Scripts folder. When the script is running, It will make a duplicated playlist for you when complete. You can then delete duplicated tracks by selecting them all and hold the option key (alt) and Delete ( <– ) to delete them from their original file and not only from the playlist.

Snow Leopard is finally installed on my Macbook Pro ready to roar. At first glance, you are not going to notice colossal changes, but you will notice a faster, and a more reliable operation system. Miniature user interface changes are to be noticed but nothing really new on the outside.

A Really Loud Roar
Things seem fast and reliable, and the new Finder is really stable. Apple have focused on speed, reliability, and stability rather than adding more features to the operation system. Although I hope they add some new features next time, because Snow Leopard´s under the hood treatment upgrade only works for some end users.

Conclusion
What Apple have done to Snow Leopard is good for the future, the things that do not mean a thing to you today, might mean allot tomorrow as GPUs and CPUs gain more cores, they have to have a software system that will use it all.

This is a quick note on installing Tomcat on Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard. You can install Tomcat in many ways, the way I’m going to do it is very simple and is only for testing.

You simply navigate to the Tomcat website and download it from there. Once you have the compressed file, unzip it. I Usually rename it to just Tomcat and move the file to my Macintosh HD/Library. The Tomcat file will now be in Macintosh HD/ Library / Tomcat.

Open Eclipse and to go preferences, search for Runtime Environments. Once you have done so, select the one available, usually Apache Tomcat v6.0 and click on edit, then browse to where you have installed Tomcat 6. Click Finish -> Ok, and now you can add a new Tomcat Server 6 in Eclipse.

One of the funniest movies out there. I was truly surprised over how funny and cool the movie is. This movie is worth every penny.

The movie is about some friends going for a bachelor-party held for a bachelor shortly before he enters marriage, to make the most of his final opportunity to engage in activities a new partner might not approve of, or merely to spend time with his male friends (who are often in his wedding party afterwards).

The bachelor and his friends did some really crazy stuff together at Vegas. In the next morning they forget everything. They lose the bachelor so they try to find him.