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Meet Claymore

5/30/2012

 
Over the weekend, we had an unexpected visitor show up on our door step - Claymore who is a long lost cousin (so we were told but I do have questions about the family ties) to Bunny Bravehart.

But being Scottish and a bunny himself, how could we refuse to allow him into our home.   He did bring a new kilt for BBh which it turns out was a hand-me-down from Claymore and I had to spend a day altering it to fit. 

Why? 

Well, lets just say that Claymore is a big lad. I guess bunnies grow big in the highlands, and have handle bar mustaches.  Claymore says that "'staches are cool". Hmm, that is sort of familiar kinda like Doctor Who saying... "Fezzes are cool", "Bow ties are cool", and the list includes Bunk beds, Stetsons, Glasses, Apollo technology, and a Top Hat. Well, it turns out that Claymore does enjoy a good Doctor Who episode as well.

Oh, and if you look at the picture you will see that one ear is shorter than the other. As I said, Claymore is a big lad and he, being Scottish, gets into a few scrapes now and then. Yes, those are stitches on his lower right ear too - another fight. (sigh, what will we do

So here they are together. 
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Development Environment Setup

5/30/2012

 
Having no experience in doing development on a Mac, this is a new experience for me.

I have spent over 11 hours getting my machine set up and figuring out how it all works together and I have not written a single line of code yet. I should not be surprised by this, I have been writing code on PC’s since the early 90’s and oh, how the memory fades at the learning curve.

So what have I accomplished so far?
  • Eclipse Classic installed.
  • The Android SDK installed and all of the Android/Google APIs downloaded.
  • Git Installed
  • BitBucket repository set up
  • SourceTree (for remote repository management) installed and set up
  • eGit (the Git add-in) for Eclipse installed.

And I have figured out how to …
  • Create an empty repository in BitBucket via the web UI
  • Create an empty repository in BitBucket via the SourceTree GUI
  • Clone a BitBucket repository (empty) down to my Mac (no UI)
  • Clone a BitBucket repository down to my Mac via SourceTree
  • Create an Eclipse project and tie it to the repository from BitBucket
  • Use SourceTree to index, commit and push back to BitBucket

And from the other direction..
  • Create a Git Repository via eGit inside of Eclipse
  • Create a project, in Eclipse, and via eGit add it to the local Git repository
  • Index and Commit and then push the now, non empty project up to BitBucket
  • Import an  (empty) cloned repository and then add a project to it.

Whew.
Now, I can start to write code!

Bunny Bravehart's Road Trip Pictures

5/26/2012

 
BBh went with me on a road trip to Mesa, Arizona. I was attending a workshop with David Huang on "Chasing with Microcrystalline Wax". After you look at the pictures (click one to open it and see the description; and to scroll through a slide show) follow this link to see pictures from my workshop.

What do you get...

5/24/2012

 
...when you take 4 geeks and add two beers each?

You get a design session for mobile apps and people talking very loud and very fast.

So Eric, Jeff and I decide to go for a quick beer after work, along the way Jeff invites Will to join us but Chris could not make it. We met at our favorite pub (off site office)

During the course of complaining about work, which one must always do during the first beer, I mentioned that on my 5 hour drive home from Arizona (with Bunny Bravehart)  I had an idea for a mobile app - a game to be specific; and of course when I looked it up, sure enough there is an android and apple app for it already. But I might add all of them were paid apps not FREE.

Well we started to talk about all; the features we would have and we decided, as a group, to write the app any way because it gets us all into the app development area.

That was yesterday evening.

Today we have a list of 13 features we want to add to the basic game; we have chosen Android as our first target platform (to be followed by iOS, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and even Pilot/webOS); we have a prototype name; a development system chosen; and even a development group name.

We will probably not make any money along the way but have lots of fun doing it.

Bunny Braveheart's Road Trip 2012

5/12/2012

 
The bunny is on the move again, the packing has begun - stay tuned for pictures as the trip progresses.
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Enjoy

5/3/2012

 
With the phenomenon of Text from Hillary winding down and the the Secret Service Scandal moving on,  I  had this idea based upon the line "Wheels Up, Rings Off" which is supposedly said by the Secret Service agents and probably lots of other folks.

When you add the problems that happened with Bill Clinton while he was in office... and now Hillary is flying around the world.

I submit this image.
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