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Get in the mix with Robert Scoble and the camera on his head:

UStream -Mix07 with Rober Scoble

After the sad loss of my cat at the weekend I started to think how I could preserve the past for my future family.

It’s always fascinating to look though old photo’s of my family from the past and I decided to preserve this history.

The plan is to scan all my old photo’s and upload them to Flickr. So get ready for a look into the Funcoder Family History. You can even see my attempt at being a photographer.

When it comes to technology I try not to be one sided and enjoy developing for both Windows and Mac OS X.

With that said, it’s time for some Microsoft fun at Mix’07. I would have loved to be part of the community this year but this will be limited to being online.

Let’s hope next year

Microsoft Mix07

I found The 4-Hour Work Week interview with Tim Ferriss very interesting, enough to add his book on my Amazon want’s list.

Recommend you give the interview a read.

Thanks Glen….

Now that I am a fully fledged member of the Apple Developer Connection, I have been delving deep into the world of XCode.

It’s a strange journey being that I haven’t had to deal with pointers for a long while now. My main development focus has been Ruby/Rails C# and VB.NET, none of which you need to concern yourself about *variable.

Saying that though I am actually enjoing the power and control I have over my code compared to the other languages.

Anyway…I digress…

Apart from the books I’m reading about Cocoa, I found some very cool podcasts dedicated to the subject.

CocoaRadio is an interview format podcast where you can hear what other developers/companies are doing with Cocoa. There are also some very good discussions on specific libraries in the famework, like sync.

CocoaCast is a very good screencast series to teach you from the start how to develop in Objective-C and XCode.

I am a big fan of SubSonic being a .NET developer and Ruby on Rails evangelist.

Developing ASP.NET applications in SubSonic is a much  more productive task as it takes all the benefits of Rails into the .NET environment. Subsonic is a zero code DAL (Data Access Layer) providing rich data features.

The one thing i love about this tool is being able to get a site up and running quickly using the scaffold. I just use the scaffold function as a temporary development environment until I am ready to build the templates ans start implementing some CSS to get the UI designed.

The new command line tool is a great addtion to SubSonic and provides a lot of cool generate functions and much more.

Check out SubSonic at http://www.codeplex.com/actionpack