Musings from the Peanut Gallery

I finished up imSimReal with IMSRGravity and IMSRPointObject this afternoon. I tagged it 0.1RC1 as the first release candidate for 0.1. I believe that this is complete for what I need to start work on GravityGames, my first iPhone app. It’s possible that more will be required, so I’ve left it as an RC1 and [...]

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Found I was releasing objects that didn’t need releasing.

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I’ve pretty much finished IMSRGravity class for now. It really does nothing but wrap an NSDictionary with some meaningful names. The NSDictionary is initialized from a property list, Gravity.plist. The plist contains the names of celestial bodies (Earth, Moon, Jupiter) as keys, and their gravity accelerations at the surface as the values. Gravity is in [...]

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imSimReal is a framework designed to provide physics capabilities for games and simulations. The algorithms used are based on Physics for Game Programmers.
Since much of my use of this library is on the iPhone, Apple rules do not allow frameworks on the iPhone, I will primarily use the source code as part of my projects. [...]

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Started working my way through Cocoa Programming for the Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass includes a challenge exercise in almost every chapter (sometimes more than one) which requires you to put what you learned to use without the hand-holding the chapter provides.
I’d appreciate that effort in this book. But I’m enjoying the learning. And [...]

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We got ourselves iPhones for Christmas. I want to learn to do iPhone development because I see that as something that looks like a fun platform, and it could easily provide a way of working toward eliminating the need to continue to work in someone else’s office all the time on these long projects.
I’m currently [...]

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