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Best laid plans and all that...

A year or so ago I was harboring plans to work on an indy Mac application. It’s an application that I’ve had planned, on and off, for many years. I wrote the first version in C++ and MFC a lot of years ago, a version in Java+Swing, and so on. I think the Mac and Cocoa are the write place to write it, but the problem is time.

A year ago I had a lot of spare time. Today I have a challenging job and very little spare time. Certainly not the kind of time required to build a large and complex application. So I’ve shelved my plans for now and am concentrating on a smaller, hobby, project to keep my Cocoa skills from rusting altogether.

The first by-product of this is LMHoneycombView which is a Cocoa custom view that displays a hexagonal “honeycomb” surface. Hexes respond to selection and support custom drawing.

More on what I’m using this for in a little while…

Posted by Matt on Aug 10, 2008

And so it begins

Ever since I bought my first Macintosh computer (“Irulan” a 1.5 GHz 12” Powerbook G4 and still a lovely machine) in July of 2005 at the urging of my friend Beth I have wanted to be involved in MacOSX development. Something about the applications on the Mac just felt “right” and I really wanted to be a part of that.

Posted by Matt on Aug 18, 2007