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Nothing in particular. Speech patterns are probably the most unusual thing I notice. But a lot of that is often covered by discovering the accent of whatever different language they speak than I do.
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Fine. They were a fun few days. No, no resolution so far.
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A good chunk of Europe and various spots on both coasts of North America. But there are a surprising number of gaps. Every time has helped a lot to re-open my mind, and I have long to-do lists of other places I always wanted to see.
A change of location always helps the brain get out of its usual tracks and try new things, and with the Internet these days, it's also easy to find a few computer folks to hang out with when you get to a strange country, to add a little bit of comfortable same-old-same-old to the deluge of new stuff.
So yes, it does impact software development, but usually in a positive way. -
The couch I'm sleeping on. Alas, that's not an option right now (... don't ask...).
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Evening/Night. I like late night walks, and I usually work better evenings than mornings. Also, it's usually cooler at night, and I like the cold.
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Since I have a day job (which essentially consists of solely coding), I spend my evenings and weekends doing all of that stuff as needed.
Usually 2-3 hours each evening, plus one of the two weekend days. Right now mainly coding, luckily support load etc. is 5 minutes here or there.
Twitter is all through the day, often just a peek and an answer on the iPhone here and there. RSS is usually sunday morning reading once a month or so. Since I get a lot of interesting links and articles via Twitter these days, I don't read feeds that often anymore. -
My main focus is Interaction design, because that's my love, and that is what I do best. I've done many of the custom views, I'm hard at work on better accessibility and usability. If something looks like a view, I've probably screwed around with it at some point, or I'm going to soon. Though I can't claim being the UI lead -- I have some very experienced colleagues in that area, who contribute very good ideas.
But I don't mind going down into the depths as well, though I usually stop before the hardware or the actual MPEG streams (out of practical considerations -- I'd love to do that stuff, but my colleagues are so good that it would be a waste to have me muddle my way through it). I've written music player components, simple image file format exports and other things for various products.
I'm also trying to establish "developer relations", so if you have questions about SDKs, components or other things, chances are that you'll eventually end up with me. -
iamleeg, adurdin. bobtiki, fraserspeirs, rbrockerhoff, annekate, mattgemmell, CHOCKLOCK, mantia, bobtiki, tarasis, dejal, chucker23n.
Essentially the same people I follow on Twitter. Have any suggestions? Tweet them :-) -
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I think the iPad is a great opportunity, and I will definitely have another look at coming up with a neat app idea for it, or two. Particularly board games and other things that need a lot of screen space seem predestined for iPad apps.
And of course, there are existing iPhone apps I may or may not be working on that may or may not be expanded for iPad. We'll see eventually. -
I have to admit, I'm not that far in the book yet to answer that question with absolute certainty. But judging from the cultural relevance of electric sheep as a reflection of social standing, I would expect them to be a common occurrence, at least in the heads of androids that put stock in things like these.
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I'm not an independent developer. I go to the office and work there, that keeps me honest. If I ever go indie, I'll pick a nice cafe, make a deal with a cute waitress to get me drinks periodically, and work there.
That may not work for everyone. Yes, the temptation to spend time doing things like ... well, like answering this question... is big. It's easy to waste time reading Tweets, following links. Sometimes it just happens, but being in a different place that is designated as my "work place" helps me. I feel weird doing non-work stuff there, so you stop that fairly quickly.
Sometimes I notice I've been there one hour and haven't really done anything, then I stay an hour longer and close Twitter or whatever distracts me today. -
Back in the 90ies I would have said the Atari. It was the next best thing.
Today...? Going into gardening and landscaping is sounding really nice. ;-)
Seriously, I like the Mac for what it is, but I'm enough of a geek to not care too much whether I'm developing for a Mac, Windows, Linux, PowerPC, ARM, Intel, Hamsters spinning a wheel... all of that is fun, challenging and interesting.
But to 'live' on, I guess I'd go with a Linux of some sort, plus booting into Windows where it's necessary. I boot into Vista occasionally already, and it just asks too many stupid questions, restarts because it thinks it knows best etc. That'd probably drive me nuts. XP was kinda nice, though. -
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Jonathan Badeen. He's a reality TV show star and just has this laid-back Hollywood vibe. The taste I'd associate with him is Cider -- he bought me one at WWDC.
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Matt. He looks like he'll burn way longer than I would when set afire.
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Uli Kusterer’s Bio
Mac/iPhone TV tuner application programmer by day, interaction designer, guy who writes tutorials by night. Sleep is for the weak and sickly. And for me.
