It has come to my attention that I haven't said a word here about my current side project, which I'm spending all my spare time working on: I'm writing a book! This comes as a surprise to me as much as anyone, but there it is. Through a happy set of coincidences, I've been given the opportunity to work on the upcoming Apress book "Learn Cocoa on the Mac" along with Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche, not to mention Mark Dalrymple doing tech review, and of course Clay Andres and the rest of the team at Apress.
This opportunity came about through a string of coincidences. Some of them hinge on things that I've done over time without any hope or intention of writing a book, which goes to show, perhaps, that sometimes when you reap what you sow, the harvest may be quite unexpected!
Anyway, this is a huge undertaking, and I feel like a bit of a hermit, eschewing the watching of TV and the reading of blogs in favor of the writing of pages, but I am truly having a blast.
I don't know if it's been exactly 1000 days, but sometime during the fall of 2007, some friends and I created Band of None. Our first 1000 days of existence have been, frankly, uneventful. The band's members and their families have all socialized on several occasions, and in fact the Band of None new year's eve "we should be performing at this party" discussion has become an annual tradition of its own. Our self-confidence and faith in our destined future as rock'n'roll superstars is matched only by our lack of available time to pursue our dreams. At this point, approximately 1000 days into our journey to musical stardom, I'd like to recap some of our accomplishments thus far:
As you can see, we don't have a lot to be proud of! Be that as it may, I'd strongly encourage you to check out our website and maybe even our myspace page and listen to some of our future classics. "Hoffburger" may be the best, but "Your Myspace Page" has something going for it as well.
Yesterday I released a new pair of games for iPhone and iPod touch in the App Store, Diabolotros and Diabolotros Lite. Diabolotros is a retro arcade shooter, most of the gameplay is lifted straight from classics like Space Invaders, but I've given it a few twists of my own, and added iPhonetastic tilt'n'shake controls: You tilt the device to steer your ship, and when you have special weapons available, you fire them by giving the the phone a little shake!
Things for you to see and do: