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So, What Happened Here??

That was a very rough 6-month project at my day job. It consumed virtually all of my spare time and drive. It’s finally passed now and I’m back to a “normal” schedule, so I’m about to restart my whole project.  It’s changed in scope, however. Rather than a full-blown, real-time simulation I’m going to open [...]

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Progress… In Secret

The good news… I’ve been making slow-but-steady progress in laying the groundwork for my project. The bad news… most of my “free time” has come during the work day when I’m (legitimately!) free to make notes and rummage around the internet a little looking for bits and bobs, but not so comfortable posting reports like [...]

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Development Tools

I’m finally comfortable with my development software selection (at least this initial version), so it’s now time to record those selections here.  Since it’s possible, if not very likely, that my choices will change along the way I’m going to set up a Page on the site to house my Development Tool selections in a [...]

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Hardware Complete

I hadn’t originally planned on spending a month getting all my new hardware set up and configured when I’d expected to be making software decisions within just a few days.  But with day-job inconveniences, a week’s vacation, and distracting shiny new toys these are the sorts of things that happen. As it stands now, I [...]

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A funny thing happened…

It turns out I was mistaken about my  next order of business.  Although I had plans for my project to be developed for both iPhone/iPod and iPad, I wasn’t expecting my pre-ordered iPad to actually come in for several more weeks (or possibly months).  But on a trip to Best Buy at lunch on Tuesday [...]

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Day One (again)

Today begins a new journey for this site. I’ve restarted the entire site (complete with theme swap and re-title) to support a new venture. In my professional life I’ve often found that nearly all of the “quirks” at the end of a project are usually associated with the phrase “where did that start to go [...]

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