ダニエルの冒険

I just managed to break my Xcode project. For some reason, the GCC 4.0 build options aren’t coming up anymore, so I can’t play with garbage collection or change any other settings.

“svn revert *” and I’m back with a working copy again. Phew. Thanks Subversion. Thubversion.

I feel like my progress is slowing a bit, but it’s probably just because I’m pretty much past the prototyping stage and actually into real development, so I’m not seeing results as quickly anymore.

I spent a good bit of time yesterday mucking around in 3ds Max, putting together the bones of a new scene, getting the right scale, and hooking up a sphere to the accelerometer input so waggling around the iPod will make it roll around the room, bumping into things.

I spent some time today adding a polling mechanism to my protocol, since I’m using UDP instead of TCP. Without TCP’s connection state, I’ve added “goodbye” and “noop” messages: goodbye is a hang-up message, telling the other device that it’s not communicating anymore. The noop (“no-operation”, in case you haven’t heard it before) is just a 1-byte datagram every second. The PC responds with the same datagram if it gets it, and if either side doesn’t get a noop packet for a few seconds it will assume the connection has dropped.

Here’s a song Arnaud from Havok showed me one day while I was working in the Tokyo office. Capsule had a very similar sound to Perfume: a group that’s doing pretty well for themselves in Japan right now. The only difference between the groups is the vocalists anyway. Check out Sugarless Girl:

I just updated daniel.ie to a portal. I’ve added 6 locations to it, but might add more such as Facebook, Twitter, or Mixi.

It’s pretty flashy and runs best in Safari, as it supports shadows, rounded corners, and all the animations.

Firefox 3 is fine too, but doesn’t render the shadows.

I wrestled with IE for a while, and then gave up: I took a screenshot of it running in Safari, used an image map to make it clickable, and if your user agent has “MSIE” in it (sorry, Opera users), you get that. But at least IE “supports” shadows on daniel.ie Obviously I’m going to regret this when I have to maintain it. Grr.