August, 2005

Yep, im working on yet another Sports Draw version

This one uses the technologies in Tiger – Core Data, Bindings, etc etc

It works. Yep my fancy and somewhat complicated algorithm i wrote years ago actually works. The funny thing is i remember sitting for ages working out the algorithm years ago, and only the other day i googled it and found the solution in about 2 minutes. Still, my algorithm works and im going with it. I just need to clean the code up a bit.

At the moment it just spits the completed round robin draw out to the console, which is fine for testing and seeing that it works, but i need to think of a cool way of laying it all out.

Ideally id like to use Core Image to draw some fancy draw layout mainly to play around with Core Image, but im stuck on ideas on how to lay it out graphically. I think ill just dump it to a table view for the time being, at least then the app is somewhat useable.

One of these days i might actually get a version to a stage that i release it, until then ill just keep playing around with it

Havn’t written on the blog much lately, mainly due to the lack of anything to write about and also the lack of motivation after doing PhD stuff all day.

I’ve just finished collecting and printing out the replies to the survey i conducted related to my PhD work. The lack of response was a bit dissapointing and i only got a total of 3 replies from a CQU wide email i sent out. After applying for an extension to the ethics approval, i sent out personal emails direct to people i knew would be good to take the survey. The response was a bit better and in total ive got around 20 replies. Still, not as good as id have hoped but theres not much i can do about it.

So next on the agenda is the silly ethics report i have to do which basically is a summary of the results and a big page of questions i need to answer in regards to whether anyone was hurt or got unforeseen side affects etc etc, all of which dont relate in the elast to my survey… its not like im testing a new drug or anything… just a few questions about a computer system…

The whole ethics thing is a pain in the butt. Before i can even talk to anyone or ask their opinion i have to fill out an application form, the application for deals with all sorts of things – none of which relate to me. If would be perfect if i was testing new drugs or something but all i wanted to do was talk to some people. *sigh*

So yeah, thats what ive been doing. Ethics report is due at the end of September.

I’ve just deleted the podcasts i had in my iTunes library that i never listened to. So at the moment im running on bare minimum podcasts, but that’s ok.

The ones i still listen to are:

- Triple J’s Dr Karl Podcast
- Triple J’s Hack
- Inside Mac Radio
- Oreilly podcast
- Dawn and Drew Show
- This week in tech

That’s about it. Its kinda hard to find decent podcasts. I guess it depends on everyones interests. *shrugs*