McCarron's Piece O' Mind

After much hard work, my first public release of iBlackjack for iPhone has been released.

Version: Alpha Release 1

http://www.iphonefanclub.com/iBlackjack/

Here's an image.

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I was trying to think of something that would inspire me to more often write blog entries. So one of the ideas I came up with was telling the few readers I have about my diet progress.

Two weeks ago while talking to a friend of mine about his new diet, I got inspired to give dieting a shot again. I had moderate success a few years ago, but put on a lot of weight in the last few months due to eating because of stress and excess hours at work. I have no one to blame but myself, and the food didn't help my stress any that's for sure.

So two weeks ago I started this diet, I took my friend's diet ideas and then made a few alterations to make it something I can stick to easier. I'm thinking this will eventually lead to an overall lifestyle of eating better that I need to stick to. A good habit to develop.

Here's the gist of what I do:

• Eat 1500 Calories a day


• Eat under 20g of fat a day


• Eat every three hours, starting at 7am til dinner 7pm. I use my iPhone's alarm clock functions to remind me to eat.


• Log all food intake nutritional information into an Excel spreadsheet that I maintain on Google Documents

I also do exercise as well, but currently am slowly ramping up back into my exercise regimen. Starting this week I'll be doing light cardio for 30-40 minutes during 3 days. I had been a gym rat before, but fell off that train too. Once I begin weight lifting more I'll probably boost my calorie intake to 1800-2000 calories.

I didn't have a scale or tape measure when I started this diet two weeks ago, but I bought one last week, so I can start to log my progress. So since last week here are my changes:

• Weight: -5.1lbs


• Belly Measurement: -1 Inches

I will occasionally update my blog here to chart my progress, at least once a week and also share some discoveries/knowledge that I gain along the way. I have a lot of learning to do yet in my new diet as far as what food options I have, so I'll share some of that stuff here as well.

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Ever since Apple unveiled the new iPhone, the number one question us fans who also are software developers have been asking is when are we getting a Software Development Kit (SDK)?

It was revealed that the only way to develop applications for the iPhone would be via "Web 2.0" applications using technologies such as AJAX. So I developed an application launcher/community forum called iPhone Fan Club. On this website I also hosted an old AJAX proof of concept game I ported to work better with the iPhone, we called it iPhone Blackjack.

But now in the past month some people, with more time than I, have backwards engineered a working toolchain/SDK for the iPhone. So excited by this news I started to look into developing for the platform myself. I decided to start by porting my PHP/AJAX powered Blackjack game to ObjectiveC/UIKit for the iPhone.

Here is a sneak peek of my progress, so far I'm implemented animation, touch/tap controls and the deck/shuffling system. My next step is to add the game logic into the game and to do some overall code cleanup.

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