Hide and Seek...?

Where have you been hiding, Mister? Um, yeah. So, I feel like I owe you all an explanation.

Rightly so. Sorry everyone. I've let my audience down. Last time I posted anything was, mid-May? Not a good blogger or social-media head type person, sorry about that guys, I'll try and do better, promise.

So, what, you ask, have I been doing? I've been job hunting primarily. Not having much luck, but this is the way of the market right now. Which leads me to the rest of this entry, the other things I've been doing. ;)

You can't have expected me to sit idle right? So, while not job hunting, I've been enjoying some of my idle time, hanging out with the family, playing with the kids and going to the zoo and museums and the like. I've also started working full steam on a few side projects. One of which I can talk about, one of which I can only hint at.

As you all know, the point of this journal was to document my travels, trials, and headaches as I explored the vast new world that is iPhone development from the viewpoint of a .Net developer. Along those lines, I have begun development on my first commercial development application for the iPhone and I'll be releasing some details about that soon. Along with those details will come more code samples and lessons learned. I haven't forgotten the reason I started this. So stay tuned for more there. There will also be some giveaways for beta test openings for the application to be given away raffle style soon as well.

The other project, while having roots in the open source community is another commercial venture and you will have to get your details and information on it through the official channels I'm afraid. Fun with NDAs. It's pretty exciting and I'm exceptionally pleased to get to work with this awesome team. I've managed to get back into a more formal C++ development role than I've had to maintain in a long time, and I'm enjoying the hell out of the challenges that have been given to me thus far. You all can find out more at AIR:Steampunk, Facebook, MySpace, or follow them on Twitter.

Also, in the next few days, 13 new pieces of art should be hitting the ImageKind gallery for sale. It took me quite a number of hours to get them all finished, polished, refined, and ready for general public consumption, but I think you all will have a good selection of work to choose from now. I like the variety that I will have available on the store once they post. I will have a new post up to announce them formally when I have them up and priced for sales.