Coming soon...

First, the obligatory long intro post.

Hi, my name is Vadim and I'm, well, a lot of things. I'm a Ukrainian, a student at WPI, a software developer, a husband and a casual EVE Online player. My interests in Objective-C started about a year ago when I got hired by Savant for a summer internship. I had an amazing time working there (not to mention being out on the Cape); the only thing I regret was having to leave. For six months I was exposed to quite a few Apple development technologies such as Cocoa, AppleScript, Core Data and Core Animation.

The purpose of this blog is to share my experiences as a developer. I'll admit that I'm not a complete expert with everything I'm doing. In a way, doing this project is a learning experience.  I know initially the vast majority of people coming to read this are completely clueless about Objective-C and just want to get the SourceForge link. However, if you happen to be a developer, particularly an Objective-C developer, your input would be appreciated.

Now, what this blog is not is a support forum. I know that initially there are going to be a lot of kinks to work out to make it somewhat stable before continuing on to newer features. I get that. I'll help out with the common problems but for all the minor quirks, time is needed to iron them out.

For now, I'll be the only developer. I'm doing this project as my Major Qualifying Project (MQP) for my college (sort of like a thesis). It'll probably be about 7 weeks before I'll need to submit what I have. Afterwards if you happen to want to help out I'll definitely consider it as I'll still be continuing to improve on it.

Currently I'm getting an approval from SourceForge. The program does a decent job of downloading the necessary data and updating the values. The screenshot there is pretty much where my current status is at. If you haven't already figured it out, the "currently training" stuff is bogus and is just serving as a placeholder. Also, the skill queue doesn't work, yet. As of this moment, I'm working on implementing caching. The data downloads but, however, its not updating itself yet. Oh, and yes, that is my character. If you're into EVE, you can tell this character has only been around for a couple months. And its poor. I will gladly take donations of ISK if you appreciate my work >.> . 

Anyways, hope to report soon on any updates. Also, I tend to read blog comments often so if you post to mine, you can be pretty confident I'll read it.