Shooby's Blog

All right, time to post all things about 2009. I cannot wait longer.

Pros:

• My son, Máté (Matthew) was born in January
• I have a new app in iTunes App Store: iRecipeBook
• I acted as “Most Senior Apple Consultant” for Hungary
• I had nice server consolidation projects at Apcom
• Also I had very nice in-house development projects
• I had no major health problems

Cons:

• Things are over at Apcom for me
• There is a joke about recession: A recession is when your neighbour loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours… so it was depression for me
• Christmas was without my mother and granny, they were sick

I think despite of the financial recession ^W depression I was able to close this year with positive balance. Of course not financially iRecipeBook just went to the shelves late November, I just put it on the App Store because I use it and I love it. This app was build for myself, contains features for me and Emese. Remote editing was really important for us because we use a lot of 3rd party recipes what we found on the web. It’s easier to copy-paste it on the computer with a web browser… anyway, I have a new version I will have to release it as update soon…

About my job: this year was fantastic, I had a chance to meet guys like James C. Berry. Jim was Group General Manager for Apcom Group, we had lots of fun with his projects making the company more enterprise-like. Also I was happy to work with guys like Peter, Karoly, Steve, Arpi and others, I cannot write a complete list but they made my life harder with their projects and little questions I love them, I hope they will have good sales in 2010.

Finally, I have to close summary of 2009 with Matt. I am very-very proud of my son, he already shows that he is bright, tells me daddy , stands still, eats (kind of) alone, plays with Lego bricks and ball, understands many things clearly shows that he loves us. I wish he will have a happy life.

• 1 chicken breast
• 2 table spoon of olive oil
• 1 can of mushroom
• 1-2 carrot
• 1 table spoon of wok spice (contains salt, sugar, garlic, pepper, soy sauce, ginger, fenugreek, turmeric)… I know this is cheating
• soy sauce
• 1 table spoon of starch
• 1 medium sized onion
• 100g of rice noodle
• water

Clean and slice the chicken to 2×3 cm slices, fry them in olive oil till they are white. Peel and slice the carrot to half inch slices, coarsely chop onion and put them in. Wash the mushroom, put it into the pan, pour in the spices, some soy sauce and the starch on it. Stir it, pour water on it to just cover the meat. Place the rice noodle on the top and cover it to boil until noodle is tender enough to stir it together. Pour some more water on the whole, cover it and repeat this until the noodle is ready with some luck.

In few days I realised I cannot finish this post.

Update: My son Matthew turned 9 months few days ago. He is clever and as handsome as me

Tough DSLRs are not for those who cannot make a steady shot with a pocket cam I decided to buy a D40 after recognising that my pictures are full of noise.

The challenge: to learn to shoot nice photos. I read documents, books about the subject, I know the basics, the theory, but this is different.

Some key events in 2008:

• learnt the basics of the French language
• spent few nice days in Paris again
• fruitful vacation in Döbrönte … see last entry ;)
• I organized the first Apple summer camp and an educational week
• became Zyxel switch specialist
• and Apple Certified Technical Coordinator
• Emese is pregnant with my son

Hurray, hurray and hurray. My little game is in the App Store! It took long, but it’s there. You can download it for free of course, search for “Shooby”. I hope you will find it as annoying and fun as I do.

Update: I have been reviewed by “whoneedsaname”. It’s fascinating how the guy writes!

Five Or More game screenshot

I’m still waiting Apple’s approval of my request to join their developer community. It’s not straightforward, because I cannot buy anything from Apple Store. I live on the wrong side of the world. I had to fax them papers to prove I will buy the subscription, now they are sitting on this paper and ask me to wait.

It’s not so easy to wait, after waiting more than one year to release something it’s more than annoying. I am curious when will they decide. Hopefully not before my patience… never mind, I’m patient.

So the rules are clear: if you live in a rich country, you can develop. If not, you are a loser.  Apple doesn’t even want your money. Funny, isn’t it? No. It’s sad.

I like to walk home with Emese, chatting about the day and whatching the nature around us.

I’m older, this is how the Universe works. And I blog this. No comment.

I can’t wait the stable release! After years of watching the splash screens I was delighted to see how fast is the new OOo beta. Service guys has a big XLS pricelist of the service parts, this beta software opened this huge file with such an easyness and speed… I will like the native OOo, I think.NeoOffice is still better if you have to edit something, I had many problems with the fonts and chart sizes, this is normal for a beta. Help the developers with your tests, check the news page on openoffice.org website.