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So I’m attending WWDC this year for the first time and I’m very much looking forward to it. I’m hoping to get some feedback on Scribo before starting the testing period in July… Yeah you read it right – Scribo will be out for test in July and everyone on the newsletter list will receive an invite.

I’ll spend the time until July on exams.. And perhaps post some more information about Scribo =)

So I finally decided on a name for the product I’m working on. Long story short: It will be called Scribo (scriboapp.com) =) The reason is that it’s simple and it does make sense since Scribo is latin and means “to write”.

It’s been a while sine the last post and I’ve been busy. Currently I’m working with an incredibly talented guy on the application icon for Scribo. Also a lot of effort is being put into optimizing the workflow within Scribo. I want it to be flexible and work both for users who are using the mouse as their primary navigation tool and for those who prefer the keyboard (which includes me). Therefor a lot of paper prototyping has been done in the past two months to ensure a simple user experience.

I’ll be back with more information as soon as possible…

So this is so much harder than anticipated. I’ve been trying to figure out what to name my product and I just keep bumping my head into the wall. This is not an easy task….

It’s been a while since my last post. Basically I’ve been really really busy coding.

But that’s not important now. Yesterday I arrived at NSConference. I met a lot of the nice people from last year as well as some new ones. Today will be a workshop with UI discussions and I cant wait.

Newsletter
Regarding the newsletter submission form on the front page. I will start sending out newsletters soon. I might seem weird that I haven’t done that yet and I’ve been postponing it on purpose. But now there are to many emails on the list to ignore it.

Product
Development of the LaTeX app is doing better than expected. I’m ahead of the schedule and it looks like it will make it on time. The main focus in the first version will be navigation in large documents. I’m building an application which will make it easier to find your way around your documents which might consist of several files. It’s designed to be a one-window experience meaning that all files in a document will be accessible in the same window.

The plan is do a beta test of the product in june. I’ll be giving more information about the product as well as information on how to become a tester in the newsletter.

I’ll go have some breakfast now =)

Today was awesome…

I did a lot of coding and there really isn’t much else to say =)

… and I bought 24″ Cinema LED display =)

This year has been awesome =)

The biggest thing for me was NSConference09 which got me in contact with many bright Cocoa developers from all across Europe. It was so much fun talking with different people who was working on very different projects. I can’t wait to come back in January 2010…

Also 2009 was the year I started doing iPhone development for Marimatech in Aarhus. It has been a very educational experience for me because I work with some very talented people. I’m definitely a better programmer because of that job and since none of them had any experience with Cocoa or Cocoa-Touch it has also given me the opportunity of teaching others what I know..

2009 was also the year where I kicked off CocoaHeads in Aarhus and it’s been fun so far. Admittedly I was hoping for a higher rate of attendees but it really doesn’t matter. We’re having fun and hopefully I’m doing something that inspires others. And who knows – perhaps interest will increase

This year was also the year where I tried to release software for the first time. Granted it didn’t work out exactly as planned but it gave me experience. It taught me the value of well designed software and it was a lesson I’ve taken with me into every project since then. I had to make a decision because the codebase had grown to a great size and since I actually had no other way of testing the app besides manual tests, changing in the code became hard which was why I decided to start from scratch. I’ve taken a lot of the experience I gained while programming on the first version, and it has made the development process of the upcoming version much faster and much much more stable. This will be something I will be very proud of and I really can’t wait to show it off to all of you.

2010 is upon us soon and one thing is for sure… it will be awesome =)

So the past two weeks have been pretty busy. I’ve been working on my bachelor thesis and organizing interviews with people who are using LaTeX on the Mac. I want to get users opinion on what works and what doesn’t work in my product-idea. Also I’ve got some backup for my server setup (thanks to rsync.net) which is great. We’re in business now =)

I’ve started collaborating with a great danish graphics-designer. So far we’ve had two meetings and before christmas we’ll start brainstorming on different aspects of the UI. I don’t have much to tell about it now other than I have a great feeling about it.

I’ve got tickets to NSConfernce in January which I’m very much looking forward to. It’s going to be great to see all the guys again and to get to know new people.

Well I guess I should get back to work now.

Redmine and Apache2 is finally working so I guess I’ll leave the server alone now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Well the last couple of days have not been super awesome for deliciouscode.com. I originally installed Lighttpd on my server but the fastcgi, ruby, php-cgi combo caused it to spawn a lot of processes resulting on no more memory and everything stopped working. This happened everytime Lighttpd was started but I didn’t notice it before today.
So now I’ve moved the homepage to apache2 which seems to be a lot better. Sadly I haven’t figured out how to get rails working properly yet (and believe me, I’ve tried) so Redmine isn’t working yet. This sucks since I’ve really come to like Redmine as an issue tracker. So I’ll continue trying to get it to work which might bring the homepage down for a few seconds once in a while for which I’m sorry. But it really is necessary for me to have an issue tracker I like using =)

Another minor bug I found was on the homepage it self. Apparently only Safari was able to render it properly since I forgot to close a tag (embarrassing) but it is fixed now.

So no more from me today. I’ll continue with my bachelor thesis now.

So I’ve moved all stuff to a new server. I’m no longer using BeanStalk for SVN hosting og LightHouse for bug-tracking. Instead I’ve switched to Git and RedMine for handling those tasks. It’s cheaper and Git is awesome =)

This also means that I’ve lost all my posts so far. Well not lost – but I’ve decided not to add them to this new blog. The reason is that I want a fresh start.

This week I started doing interviews with my target audience. I’ve put up posters on campus asking for students to help me getting to know their needs better. Also I’m doing an online survey for my danish audience. I will probably translate this into english when it is done so everyone can participate.

Also the homepage is changed. Basically I’m trying to convert this into a business more than a hobby project. One of the steps towards this is to start getting contact information about all potential users. Hopefully this will help us all when a beta is shipping in 2010.