I finally got it!

I can’t stand my 90′s Japanese phone anymore so I’ve ordered an iPhone. Also, we went to Yokohama last week so there’s some video from there as well as a bunch of new pictures on flickr.

Slowly getting there

I am slowly making progress with my time-wasting application. I’m getting it to do some stuff, but I just wasted like 4 hours with random crashes and one hard reboot of my computer because apparently Xcode doesn’t catch infinite loops, but instead lets the simulator suck up all existing CPU power.

The worst thing was that the crashes gave no error message at all. Sometimes the crashes were because an array index out of bounds (which it reports with an error sometimes and sometimes not) and one time it crashed seemly randomly and it took me like an hour to figure out that I was accidentally “dividing by zero” when running this piece of code

arc4random() % (5-l)

Where l was a variable for the length of a word. This length can be 5, so sometimes i was trying to do modulus zero. Which apparently crashes the app without errors…

Anyhoooo! Tomorrow I’m going to study more, I swear.

Something I’m building instead of studying for my exams.

I’ve been keeping quite busy the last couple of days. School takes up a lot but the little extra time I have I spend trying to make a little file upload demo in Cappuccino, which is really awesome. I love being able to code Objective-C and then just refresh my browser to see my application running in there instead of on the desktop.

Another very awesome thing is that I have now been officially approved as an iPhone Developer, meaning I can develop apps on my own phone and if they get good enough I can start selling them in the App Store. The entire application process took only 6 work-days which I have to say is very impressive! I’ve heard of people having to wait months for their licenses so that was pretty awesome. The first app up for development is essentially a phone version of DHG, which I hope can get quite awesome.

There is in fact so much awesome, that I can’t stop thinking about all of this awesome, resulting in me not getting any sleep. The upside of this is that it will result in tomorrow being very much less awesome and hopefully I’ll be able to get some sleep then.

I can’t wait till Christmas break when I’ll actually have some free time!