I’m in the market for a mobile device, I was thinking about getting the new MacBook Air but seriously, if I all want to do is web, email, skype and ssh (you never know) while on the go, a nice Android device will make the cut.

our son turned 4 a few days ago :)

First things first, you need to install Apple’s Developer Tools, they either come in your Extras DVD or you get them from Apple’s Developer site, they are free but you need to register.

Once you have the dev tools, you need to install premake 3.7 and premake 4, this is because ODE svn sources needs premake4 and roboSimu sources are made for premake 3.x.

So go ahead and download premake 3.7 and premake 4, unzip and copy the premake and premake4 binary into /usr/bin.

Next you need to install ODE, currently drawstuff is broken with the latest ODE 0.11.1 so we need to get the sources using subversion (if you don’t have subversion get the package installer here).

So run:

svn co https://opende.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/opende/trunk ode

Now to compile ode run this:


cd ode
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-double-precision
make
cd build
premake4 gmake
cd gmake
make config=debugdoubledll


After this you should have libode_doubled.dylib in ode/lib/DebugDoubleDLL.

Now into roboSimu, go to Demura’s instructions and you’ll find roboSimu090614.zip along with instructions to build on Windows and CodeBlocks.

Unzip roboSimu sources and copy the files into ode/roboSimu.

Now we need to copy the ode and drawstuff libs into ode/roboSimu/DebugLib.

Standing inside ode run this:


mkdir roboSimu/DebugLib
cp lib/DebugDoubleDLL/libode_doubled.dylib roboSimu/DebugLib
cp drawstuff/src/.libs/libdrawstuff.a roboSimu/DebugLib/libdrawstuffd.a
cp drawstuff/src/libdrawstuff.la roboSimu/DebugLib/libdrawstuffd.la


Almost ready!, I promise!

Now you need to edit roboSimu/roboSimu.lua edit line 77 and add the following:


--table.insert(package.links, { "GL", "GLU" })
table.insert(package.linkoptions, {"-framework OpenGL", "-framework GLUT"})


Save and quit and now it’s time to compile!


cd roboSimu
premake --target gnu
cd src
make


If everything goes well you should see this:


==== Building amotor ====
Linking amotor
==== Building arm1 ====
arm1.cpp
Linking arm1
==== Building arm2 ====
arm2.cpp
Linking arm2
==== Building arm3 ====
arm3.cpp
Linking arm3
==== Building bounce ====
bounce.cpp
Linking bounce
==== Building hello ====
hello.cpp
Linking hello
==== Building hopper ====
hopper.cpp
Linking hopper
==== Building hopper2 ====
hopper2.cpp
Linking hopper2
==== Building hopper3 ====
hopper3.cpp
Linking hopper3
==== Building legged ====
legged.cpp
Linking legged
==== Building monoBot ====
monoBot.cpp
Linking monoBot
==== Building omni ====
omni.cpp
Linking omni
==== Building pk ====
pk.cpp
Linking pk
==== Building sensor4 ====
sensor4.cpp
Linking sensor4
==== Building slope ====
slope.cpp
Linking slope
==== Building wheel1 ====
wheel1.cpp
Linking wheel1
==== Building wheel2 ====
wheel2.cpp
Linking wheel2
==== Building wheel4 ====
wheel4.cpp
Linking wheel4


Note that all the example binaries will be inside ode/roboSimu/DebugLib. Enjoy!

I’m a total noob when it comes to managing people, but this step was a forced step, someone had to do it and it felt like the right time to do it, after 10 years of coding and hacking I’m slowly starting to venture in the next step, management, ugh, I avoided that word for so long that is not even funny, back then in my late teens and early 20s I swear not to be “that guy”, and here I am, doing my best to enable the team to get things done and not being a total asshole at the same time, guess what?, it’s hard, fun and satisfying, very much like hacking but instead of logic skills you need social skills, yes, the ones that I as a former nerd developed late in life.

So yeah, this is cool, it takes a whole different set of skills and it’s a decent challenge by itself, life is good :)!.

PS: I replaced the MacBook with an iMac, best move evah. I keep the MacBook just in case I need to go mobile, which is about 5% of the time.

More pics in my Flickr set.

This year is going to be special in many aspects, my wife is starting college again, and she is going after a degree in Electronic Engineering at one of the top schools in our country. This time things are different, we are now married and proud parents of a very cute, smart and awesome 3 year old kid and we have something we can call home, not bad for a young couple!. This is start of a beautiful quest for all of us, and I hope to be as supportive as I can be and help her out to achieve her degree.

Work Challenge

Work is not going to be easy either, business is growing and we are working on some nice projects for big clients, the kind of client that can absorb most of your time and resources but you have to keep up with them. This is a good thing, it gives you peace of mind, specially as a freelancer, to know that money is not going to be an issue for a whole year, which I want to take as an opportunity to finish a product and finally move out of the freelance world and into the indy dev studio that I really want to be.

Conclusion

So that’s it, I am happy and thrilled about this year challenges and I am determined to make the most out of it. Also, this is the first time in my life that I make “resolutions”, not sure how they will turn out but it was a very interesting exercise, I wrote down 20 things, all very realistic and nothing too crazy. It’s amazing how much better I would feel if I actually do/achieve just some of them, small changes may have a big impact in your life after all.