Bryan is on the Web

Looks like Bryan is starting to blog more then me, you can see what he is up to over at bryanpeart.com

Done, finally, or is it just a begining?

So last night Apple finished processing my contract, and its robots accepted my application for review. I'm about 3 months late, but my app is done. By done, I don't mean that it is finished, but that the first full commercial ready release has been made. My hope is that I will begin to garner some success, and then follow up with more and better releases. All done in my two hour train rides to and from my real work.

Its been a heck of a ride, especially the last few months where real work has been sucking all the room out of my schedule leaving me fewer and fewer hours to work on my app, and the attention my app needed was more then just the one hour intervals could provide. Fixing a defect can take hours of analysis, especially when they are broken up over 5 days. The few last minute problems were all paper work, and graphical, my icon fought me for days, and required external help from Alex before I beat it in to shape. I don't like the final look of the icon, but dammit I decided release the damn app and fix the icon in a future release. Here it is in its fully res glory, and I won't shame myself here with the cruddite version embedded in my app:



For those who haven't seen it, here is a peak into my app:





What the heck is this? Well for those who are D&D 3.5 players out their, this is a spellbook of all the freely available d20 SRD spells. Its a life saver at the game table where I can look things up quickly with out digging through a book. There are a lot of features I intend to add (hides future features from prying eyes of competition) but those will come later.

In the mean time, I plan to sit back for a few weeks, knit a pair of socks (cast them on this morning,) get http://www.rpgtouch.com up and running, and do a whole heck of a lot of work-work in my spare time ):

Probably going to blog a bit more as well, but as always I won't make any promises.

Anyways trains in the stations ttyl.

Crowd Sourcing

Okay, not a big a crowd as the typical crowd sourced question, but I'm trying to find a widget or a piece of Java Script, that even if I have to manually update it, shows a progress bar to the fund raising goal for the Heart&Stroke Ride. I'd love it if Kintara/H&S F had such a badge, but seems like no dice, so it will have to be something I manually update. I've found a few, but they are attached to actually fund raising, like chipin, and I don't like the idea of people paypaling me money first, just seems redonkulous when there already is a great donation webpage. So crowd, ideas?

Zomg Blogging

Yeah, just a warning, I am, and remain, a lazy blogger, so this recent burst may have to hold you for a few days at the very least.

Cheers :)

Sidebars

A few new side bars here, InteReSSting Feeds is a witty play on RSS, okay it isn't that witty. Any stories in my RSS feed that I find to be interesting, I will just mark as shared, and they will show up there.

The Feedworthy images are basically any image that has been posted to the blog, or images I randomly add. I'm not sure how often it will cycle through it, but it is amusing me.

And polls, I just added them for fun :)

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Who's driving blog?

Bear driving blog!

Oooookay, that makes < sense.

I'm playing around with some stuff here, you may notice that you have auto-forwarded to blog.araska.org and everything looks weird. Don't worry that is on purpose....

more changes to come in the come days.

Blogging and Podcasting

Well my grand blogging effort has be thwarted by my iPod. More specifically, Buzz Out Loud, the CNET Podcast of Indeterminate Length. A great show, but one that requires more attention they I imagined. Thus leaving the quality of my blogging quite wanting.

Welcome new members of the Araskian Brand,

Araska.org would like to welcome two new sites under its banner, the news sites are actually off brand and will not be sporting that dashingly handsome URL Araska.org but have there own equally interesting URLs. The first in our happy web family is www.erinwestman.com this site will be hosting the e-resume of the lovely and talented Erin Westman. The second site is www.jwwestman.com which will be hosting the professional site of J. W. Westman Inc. The first site is developed and designed by the aforementioned Erin Westman, and the later is from the toolbox of yours truly. I'm beginning to think, on comparing the two, that my toolbox is filled with rusty widgets, and ill fitting sprockets, because Erin's looks sharp.

So everyone please give these new sites a warm welcome, and please pad there hit counters.

Lazy Blogging

Hey all, I'm just the laziest blogger lately. I can't really give you a good reason, so I won't.

Recently did some skiing, and basement work (its really almost done, just quarter round, and touch up painting :)

Heading up to Ottawa this weekend for Winterlude. I can't wait, going to see ice and ice related activities. Skate the canal, see the mint (I suppose thats always fun for either those who like to hold gold, or numismatist.) Speaking of numismatists, the Mint announced or at least confirmed that they are considering making a $1 000 000 dollar coin!

So pictures of Ottawa to come, and maybe some blogging as I turn to the dark side, or at least the shinny happy apple side! The lappy hasn't been ordered yet, but I have made the commitment to go Apple, and am just saving my clams up until I have enough. While I think John Hodgman personifies a PC in actually a flattering light, I must trade my suits and pocket protectors for the sexy sleek anodized aluminum, and feline grace of the OS X. I blame Loki, and Steve Jobs (For Erin: Jooorrrrrrrbbbbbbbbsssss.)

Anyways for those asking, I'm telling, love the new job! Look forward to work in the morning! But don't worry, I'm not a workaholic yet, I still look forward to Friday's with zeal :)

better blogging through effort coming soon

SylGeoff

Blogger Beta

Well Blogger 2.0 or whatever is out of beta, and I have made the conversion. You really won't notice much of anything on this end, but the editor is much nicer for me. Sadly a number of features are unavailable because I don't host on blogspot, but the one thing you can see is Tags, or labels. They will appear at the end of posts, and will link to an index of posts that share a label. I will have to go back through the archive and label things. So it will take a little time, but feel free to have a look around.

Also I have started a new job, which 9/10ths of the universe already know. I haven't said much a about it, but that will come soon. I also have some interesting pictures from the neighbour hood since it is kind of neat. That will come soon to.

Talk to you all later!