Compiled BWToolkit, Mac OSX 10.5 for PowerPC
Posted by BrianH | Filed under Experimental
So, I’ve been working on getting back into developing on Mac OS X again (I really want to start developing for the iPad/iPhone), and I’ve been poking at some frameworks here and there to finally get something decently designed for some silly application ideas I have floating around on pen and paper. Until I can fork out the money to get an Intel Mac Mini (since I can’t play with the iPhone SDK on PowerPC) along with the $99 Apple Developer Fee, I’m slowly learning the ropes on Xcode and Objective-C with my Power Mac G5. I think learning how to develop on my existing Mac will give me a better advantage of learning how to develop for the iPhone/iPad when the time comes. I’ve walked through some basic HelloWorld.app tutorials in the past, but never really taken the time to finish a somewhat serious project. Until now.
The BWToolkit is a great framework to alleviate some stress on designing a great looking user interface. It’s functionality and ease of use has made it really worth the effort to get compiled on my PowerPC. The developer (Brandon Walkin) provides an i386 version of BWToolkit.ibplugin 1.2.5 on his website (http://brandonwalkin.com/bwtoolkit/), but I’ve taken the time to compile a working PowerPC version on Mac OS X 10.5. The following file (BWToolkit.ibplugin) was compiled, tested, and working on my Dual 2.7 GHz PowerMac G5. Enjoy!
BWToolkit.ibplugin (952.1 KiB, 88 hits)
Twitterized!
Posted by BrianH | Filed under Website News
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who know binary and those who don’t.
Yes, it’s an old techie joke, but the same concept applies to the world of Twitter. I’ve had my twitter account for a while now, but never really used it that much. I’ve actually never really found much of a need to, until I got my iPad and the new version of Twitterific was enough to grab my attention again. So, I figured I should probably get up to speed with the blogosphere and actually slap that puppy on my sidebar for you (my viewers) to checkout.
You can FOLLOW ME on Twitter too!
I have a few other things I’m working on with my website. I’ll be creating a unified Downloads section soon, so getting all the goodies I have spread out through my posts will be easier to find. You guys must really like that Fur Library, because it has over 14,000 downloads so far. Insane!
Downtime Bad, Updates Good!
Posted by BrianH | Filed under Website News
Wow, that really was horrible. It took me a while until I realized that it was a simple ID10T error that was causing the internal database error over the past several days. I’ve been slightly busy and didn’t catch it as soon as I should have, but it was a quick and easy fix when I did. I’m back up and running now.
Anyways, with that aside, I’ll bring you up to speed with some things that have been going on. First off, I am loving my new iPad! It’s completely replaced my laptop and it goes practically everywhere with me. I keep a cleaning cloth in my pocket from the people who droll on it when I let them check it out (and the screen tends to get marked with finger prints a lot too).
I’m learning the ropes with writing in Pages to work on my eBooks while I’m on the road. Its quite an experience. I’m slowly porting things over from Google Docs, and hopefully I’ll start getting new content rolling within the next week or so. I’ll also be working in changing me new books over to Blender 2.5 based, since things seem to be rolling along much smoother with the development.
I also gotta pull myself away from Pocket Legends to get some work done too. That game is way too addicting. 
. We need some devs to start getting Blender compiled for the iPad. Now that would be awesome! Apple would probably take forever to approve it though.