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.

School is here soon, and I have been working hard to finish a game I have been busy working on. It is about a super tank that is defending it’s city from terrorists running to blow it up.

Game Objective
You are the hero who controls this super tank so that your city will survive another day. You have to kill all 50 terrorists. If one bypasses you then he will destroy your city.

Development
I have never made games before. The code and the game you are about to see is my own research and work, this is stuff I did not learn in school, because I’m no game developer.

This was a bit challenging, but I have learned allot. Code and a download link after the jump.

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