[i code therefore i am]

So I made the mistake of trying to pull this together on a weekend.Let me try again now that people are awake and on the internet and not partying.

I’m trying to put together a quasi-community posting for all of my creative and talented people, introducing them all to each others works and spread the love at the same time. If all of my artists, writers, musicians, crafters, etc can please send me a way for people to get to their various trades, I’ll finish putting my post together and get it out, let’s call it Wednesday, and hopefully get some new love for all

So, with that, send me YOUR information. I’ll collect it all, and get a big, interesting talent-filled together and put it up with what I’d like you all to do then.

Stay tuned.

Where have you been hiding, Mister? Um, yeah. So, I feel like I owe you all an explanation.

Rightly so. Sorry everyone. I’ve let my audience down. Last time I posted anything was, mid-May? Not a good blogger or social-media head type person, sorry about that guys, I’ll try and do better, promise.

So, what, you ask, have I been doing? I’ve been job hunting primarily. Not having much luck, but this is the way of the market right now. Which leads me to the rest of this entry, the other things I’ve been doing.

You can’t have expected me to sit idle right? So, while not job hunting, I’ve been enjoying some of my idle time, hanging out with the family, playing with the kids and going to the zoo and museums and the like. I’ve also started working full steam on a few side projects. One of which I can talk about, one of which I can only hint at.

As you all know, the point of this journal was to document my travels, trials, and headaches as I explored the vast new world that is iPhone development from the viewpoint of a .Net developer. Along those lines, I have begun development on my first commercial development application for the iPhone and I’ll be releasing some details about that soon. Along with those details will come more code samples and lessons learned. I haven’t forgotten the reason I started this. So stay tuned for more there. There will also be some giveaways for beta test openings for the application to be given away raffle style soon as well.

The other project, while having roots in the open source community is another commercial venture and you will have to get your details and information on it through the official channels I’m afraid. Fun with NDAs. It’s pretty exciting and I’m exceptionally pleased to get to work with this awesome team. I’ve managed to get back into a more formal C++ development role than I’ve had to maintain in a long time, and I’m enjoying the hell out of the challenges that have been given to me thus far. You all can find out more at AIR:Steampunk, Facebook, MySpace, or follow them on Twitter.

Also, in the next few days, 13 new pieces of art should be hitting the ImageKind gallery for sale. It took me quite a number of hours to get them all finished, polished, refined, and ready for general public consumption, but I think you all will have a good selection of work to choose from now. I like the variety that I will have available on the store once they post. I will have a new post up to announce them formally when I have them up and priced for sales.

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” Wm. Arthur Ward.

Today, I had to adjust the sails.

My work on the iPhone / iPod Touch App still moves forward and it will continue to into the future. I will now also be moving forward on some additional fronts. From here on, you will be seeing other things appear in this space that are not computer or development related, but may still be of interest.

I’ve been forced into a need to quickly diversify my trades a bit and will be trying to get some art and music work up for sale, as well as my development side of things. My artwork is mostly abstract and my music tends to lean into the experimental and trance genres.

I will now be using this space to showcase my artwork, music, as well as the development journals. I will more than likely be putting the actual works up for sale on places like Etsy or ImageKind.

Watch this space for things to come. Hopefully quickly.