C#, networking, machine learning, multithreading

I've decided to take up learning more about C# and a few other topics that I feel would be important to learn. I purchased this book that is sold over at amazon.com called "C# 4.0 in a nutshell". It covers a wide range of topics including networking and multithreading. Machine learning is somthing I feel would be interesting to learn and implement into an application. One of the hardest parts about finding being a Software Developer is figuring out a good idea for a piece of Software. I had a good idea for a IPhone game and its still in development but finding a good idea for a Windows application may take a bit of time to figure out. On other side notes of things to talk about, I felt quite disturbed at how FIFA judges their games...Mostly on the part that they dont allow video replays to be helpful in judging fouls and offsides and like Kaka's red carding he received. Hopefully they can make changes to the way they judge so itll be more fair, and less people pretending they are hurt just to make the other team get penalized.

Brazil!

Tomorrow begins the world cup first game for BRAZIL!!!
Woooooohoooo exciting!
Pretty confident Brazil will dominate the competition.

World Cup!!

World Cup begins today!!!
So exciting, I really hope Brazil pulls through this World Cup!

IPhone

The new IPhone looks so cool!
I am excited to upgrade to it when my current AT&T contract is up. Even more exciting though is the new IPhone OS...It definetly will be one of the biggest changes apple is making to the IPhone with it now supporting Multitasking applications at the same time.
In terms of my current project i've been taking down good ideas that will make the game more interesting. Still formulating a name has been slightly tough.

Sunburn

Sunburnning is so not fun...Especially when its your neck that toasts and gets all red. Anyhow today ill be messing with interfaces and buttons to try and get things to work properly in my game im gonna make. Ill post pictures hopefully sooooon :P

Brazilian Barbecue

Today my wife and I had a barbecue with our friends here. Brazilian beans, rice, bbq chicken, garlic bread, and a huge cake with whip cream and strawberries!


Tonight I'll start putting forth a good effort to get my game started so I can hopefully get it on i-tunes by August.
When there are more developments ill put some screenshots up.

Game Idea

After my learning experiences with the interface builder I had a great idea for a game which ill start working on. It'll probably involve learning how to set a server up to serve as a middleman to connect different players together so they can compete. Ill also have to do some research into how to do network programming with the IPhone. Overall it should be very exciting to make. My current decision I need to make is if I want to make the game using cocos2d or a viewbased app using interface builder.

More IPhone dev learning

So I played with cocos2d a bit more yesterday, made a smoke.png picture move across the screen, then made it move from the position I touch on the screen. After some success with that I then proceeded to play with windows based applications to learn a bit how to make my own utility apps for the IPhone. XCode's interface builder made the interface building process a breeze...Today ill try to work with making it so the interface actually performs things.

So I played around with buttons, textboxes and labels...editting them and what not. Heres a screenshot of my developments.

cocos2d is awesome!

My friend introduced me to this library(http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/) for writing 2d graphics apps. It comes with a ton of different functionality that helps to write IPhone games. If anyone is interested in starting their own iphone game, definetly look into this to cut down on the game development time.

Games, Utilities...Programs

What makes a good computer program?
Some games become exceedingly successful while others dont reach the hands of many avid gamers...I am inclined to believe that good games become popular based on their sturdiness as well as their ability to challenge the gamer. As do good utility apps depend upon sturdiness and usefulness. So the true challenge of a developer comes down to determining which games/utilities/programs will entice the users to keep coming back for more.