Anner J. Bonilla

So my mac mini got here today after 2 hours of installing Xcode and downloading the iPhone SDK.

I was really excited to find they provided a good idea which startup projects provided for you so you can go and test your applications.

for some reason i expected something more linux oriented where there is a half ehh done Template.

without no documentation and that barely rarely works unless it's something like Java or Mono i guess i use Linux too much :P.

I also download all the iPhone tutorials videos on iTunes.

now need to take a look at them and start coding wich brings me to things to code.

• Math library - Create a math library that works with both C++ and objective-C allowing me to  use it on both sides of development ie. c++ and obj-c.
• 3ds Exporter - I haven't used max script in so long and i was thinking writing a c++ binary exporter would be a good experience.
• Networking - I would love to expand my networking knowledge the iPhone seems like a good place to start so i may write a small networking pong game.
• Threading - I would also love to expand my knowledge on threading seem processors already reaching 8 cores and putting all  those cores to good use sounds like a great idea.
• CUDA |openCL - now that snow leopard has opencl support i could write some sort of 3d application that puts good use to it, preferably more of CUDA on windows.

 Also i was enlighten by the GDC Austin talk at Full Sail today, which BTW was awesome.

It made me think that i should go to GDC Austin even thought i already went to GDC SF it still be a good idea to network and meet even more people.

I been working on some networking code for my team's Final Project Game. Witch has led to modify some core files like common files included by everything.

This has lead to a massive decrease in productivity waiting 15 minutes for your game to build for it not to work.Usually i dont require to build so many times but i am experimenting with libCurl to do some of the networking and it's been a learning experience. I was talking to Will Dull from EA Tiburon and he told me that at EA they use a product called IncrediBuild i remember reading about it once but never was in need of it.

I decided to go download the 30 day trial yesterday to see what performance boost did i got on my compile times. expecting a really minimal decrease in compilation time. i setup my Desktop: Core 2 Duo  with a 3.0ghz processor and 4gb of ram and my school laptop with a Core 2 Duo 2.0ghz and 4gb of ram. I click build and to my amazement it finished in 2minutes and 15 seconds. compare to the normal 15 minutes full clean and rebuild.

Thank's Will if you wouldn't have mention it ill prob never have tough about using it.