I found this while browsing Google Videos. Merry Christmas!
Archive for December, 2006
Arsing book never arrived ¬_¬ …
It’d better arrive tomorrow, else there’ll be stabbin’s.
Thank you very much for that completely unprovoked, pointless and seemingly irrational stab at me and / or my blog.
Is it your blog? No. I guess you’re cooler if you make several posts in one day instead of 1 general post ever few days? I don’t know, I’m not up my own arse.
Annnny way…
Since recompiling and redistributing Xblaze I’ve been looking deeper into Cocoa and Objective-C with the hopes that some day I’ll be able to produce something useful with it. Or even maybe maintain and update Xblaze.
I’ve been frequenting the #Adium and #Adium-Devl channels on freenode. There are some really cool people around there, and they’re keen to help and answer questions too, unlike some people I previously spoke to about these sorts of things. It’s rather refreshing to ask a question and not get the answer
ffs n00b, why dont j00 g00gle it
or
ffs, man [insert topic of question here]
It might just be me, but Objective-C seems completely alien to me sometimes. After learning C++ and working with Java, some of the concepts in Obj-C just don’t feel right, and sometimes just don’t make sense to me at all. Again - it might just be me waiting for the penny to drop, but there we go. But apart from that, I think I might be getting the hang of it. Getting my head around the MVC concept was a good turning point.
I’ve ordered the book: Cocoa: Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass. That’ll be arriving Monday, and I shall try and use up any free time I have immersed in that book. According to the guys in the Adium channels, it’s the standard recommendation for people who want to start learning Obj-C and Cocoa from a beginner’s perspective.
So… 04:55am and I’m writing a blog. Jesus… I have to be up in 3 hours ¬_¬
Yep! And it was partly thanks to me! 
It looked like I was the only Mac user who had the know-how or the will to recompile the plugin against the new XFireLib source code that contained the fix. Thanks to the guys at XFireLib for fixing this problem, it’s much appreciated.
I also recompiled it against the new Adium beta code as well, which might help to eliminate some crashes that the plugin was experiencing. So far I haven’t had one crash since I recompiled it, it’s just working fine for me.
So anyway, it can be downloaded from the Xblaze page at this site.
Someday, when my Cocoa programming skills are a bit more developed, I’ll continue the work that Kainjow did on a dedicated client for Xfire, separating it from Adium and hopefully getting rid of the many problems and limitations that surround Xblaze being a plugin for Adium.
–Edit–
To any Adium developers that read this: sorry if I made it sound like there were problems with Adium itself! That’s not true! Adium is a great piece of software, and I have nothing bad to say about it. I was just trying to make a point that I believe Xblaze would have more of a future if it were to be implemented as a standalone application instead of a plugin. Sorry guys! >.<
This short movie is such an accurate reflection of what happens in these internet chat rooms. It’s extremely funny and I honestly didn’t expect the twist that came at the end!