maybe tuesday will be my good news day

[johnnyfavorite]

When I wrote this earlier post, I gave myself permission to do so because I thought I had made some money on the deal, which legitimized it. How utterly naive that sounds to me now. Heh

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[agmsmith]

I guess it's been a month since things started. Is it beginning to work out yet?

Meanwhile over here, our iPad experiment is finally getting past roadblocks, the biggest being a change to OpenGL that mysteriously broke shader code in iOS 5.0 (order of inputs was no longer settable post-link). That was annoying to debug - just black screens, crashes, mysterious polygons whipping by, with few clues as to why. Several days of dead ends were explored. Finally got it after rereading some example code and poking around with the OpenGL frame capture debugger, looking at every little detail and hand decoding vertex buffers, etc.

[johnnyfavorite]

you are probably used to how things work in the windows world. so allow me to welcome you to the apple ecosystem. it's a lot different over here. the big thing is that apple has no qualms whatsoever about disrupting existing APIs, if there's a problem of some kind, or if it no longer fits with their current view of the world. they don't care one tiny bit that your bread-and-butter app depends on some particular API. they will remove it in a heartbeat, in a fit of pique, just because it's not elegant enough. or change it out from under you, with little or no warning. caveat programmer. compare and contrast with microsoft, where heaven forbid they should break some windows app that hasn't been updated since 1992.

i am still working for the canada company, but naturally it can't be all wine and roses, can it? they are starting to make unreasonable demands. i am trying to decide what to do about it. further bulletins as events warrant.

i did finally get reimbursed for that hotel room, at least.