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Exciting times indeed.

Raven and I are really excited about this event and can't wait to see you there!

I finally finished Episode 6 of The Core Animation Screencast. Man is is way over due (sorry!). It a bit long again but its really worth it (I think, but you will have to be the judge). In this episode we wrap things up with the final bits of transformation and filter goodness so that we get a really nice looking app.

Here is a teaser screenshot for the curious. The pics were taken by my amazingly talented wife on a recent trip to the Grand Canyon.

This has been a particularly fun series to put together. I really enjoy doing screencasts. If you have an opinion on what would be good to have next please let me know. I'm thinking an album art city would be fun to build but there is so much to cover for all the folks new to the platform. A nice Xcode intro or IB how too would be fun.

I got the next chapter in Gala Factory pushed out to the app store, just waiting on apple review. In the mean time please check out the demo video on youtube, and then line up to buy a thousand copies. Thanks!

I'm totally stoked to say that my Dot Game has made it into the top 50 of all games on the store!

Buy early, Buy often!

I finished Episode 4 up last night and the gerbils (i.e. Mike Clark) @ PragProg already turned it into a downloadable movie. You can grab it here.

This episode came in a bit long (at 42 minutes) but I could not think of what to delete. The main thrust of the episode is introducing 3D transformations and in order to make that happen I did a bunch of refactoring to the app so the layers would be setup to make beautiful cover flow goodness. At first I was thinking it would be good to just make the refactoring happen off line and then paste it in as canned code. After running though half the episode doing that I thought I was just leaving out too much good stuff about debugging tips and refactoring process. So anyway I put it in and it came in big.

Hope you enjoy it!

iPhone, key arrived, os installing, nothing to be said, NDA and all that, very excited...

Lame attempt to be funny, hard to be silent.

So I've just about finished up the first chapter of my ObjC book. Its been a ton of fun so far.

I posted some thoughts about it here on my objc blog for those that are interested or anyone that might have thoughts about picking up ObjC coming from Java, .NET, C++ etc.

Ok this is not really done but its something I was toying with when I upgraded to GarageBand 3.0

Well the latest version of Keynote (2.0.2) works well with Subversion. In the 1.x stream on every save it would recreate the directory and delte the old one which would hose Subversion. Now Keynote just replaces the content of the .key directory.

Very nice indeed...