{"id":53,"date":"2011-04-02T13:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T02:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2011-10-10T00:01:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T13:01:35","slug":"a-different-kind-of-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/02\/a-different-kind-of-development\/","title":{"rendered":"A different kind of development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has it really been a year since the last activity here?! Well there&#8217;s a good reason: another kind of development has been occupying my time &#8211; I bought an old house and have spent an intense year <a href=\"http:\/\/domusrenovatio.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">renovating it<\/a>. What with my PC dying in the move leaving me with a box full of hard-drives to sort through, lack of a desk or a study and rubble everywhere it&#8217;s been a little hard to get coding.<\/p>\n<p>However, here I am a year later, sitting at my lovely new desk (I made myself) with an old rescued laptop and a couple of drive docks trying to reorganise my jumble of repositories and projects, some literally stopped halfway through a line of code with uncommitted changes!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not been all cold on the coding front &#8211; far from it. I&#8217;ve learned Objective C and am currently beginning my second co-incidentally primate-themed iPhone game. Last year I spent an intense three months learning the iPhone SDK and building <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/app\/taronga-zoo-monkey-mayhem\/id393283640?mt=8\">Monkey Mayhem<\/a> for Sydney&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taronga.org.au\/taronga-zoo\/tours-activities\/taronga-zoo-iphone-app\/taronga-zoo-free-iphone-app\">Taronga Zoo<\/a>. Now, with a group of friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/nomadagency.com.au\">Nomad Agency<\/a>, we&#8217;re planning a game to raise awareness of the risk to gorillas habitat the mining of coltan for mobile phone manufacture.<\/p>\n<p>Recycle your phones people!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has it really been a year since the last activity here?! Well there&#8217;s a good reason: another kind of development has been occupying my time &#8211; I bought an old house and have spent an intense year renovating it. What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/02\/a-different-kind-of-development\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}