You write a prompt, hit enter, and watch the console light up green. Code pours out. It feels like magic. Then you try to maintain the thing a week later, and you realize your shiny new AI agent just built a leaking bucket.
As you might have noticed, I'm trying out different kinds of content on my blog lately. It's all stuff I love doing, just interesting trying out new stuff. Next up on "new ideas" is "easter ales 2011", where I thought I'd introduce this years crop of easter ale available in Danish supermarkets.
In this first video blogpost I follow up on my two blogposts from 2005, I show you how easy it is to put a Pentax m42 mount lens, one of the most popular kind of lenses from the 1950s up until the late 1980s, on a Canon EOS DSLR body. Back in 2005 I used the EOS 20D, now I use the EOS 5DmkII, but it's just as easy.
I've been looking for a great-looking and great-sounding speaker system for my Mac. And just so we're clear: great-sounding is for classical music, and I expect equal or better than my Celestion/NAD system I bought for ~10.000 NOK when I was 15. My problem has been that either the speakers filled too much in my office space (3.5 m2), and/or they looked really bad.
A while back I bought an IRIScan 2, a little scanner that could be laying in the kitchen drawer to scan incoming bills. It's not a very fast scanner, it doesn't have battery for very many pages, but for incoming mail, perhaps some music scores and such, it's quite good.
Like many of you, this morning I went on the Apple Store online and ordere my iPad 2. I've had a chat with many shop keepers today, both Eplehuset, Elgiganten and Humac. What seems to be the genereal consensus is that less than 10% of the iPads they had asked for have been delivered. So there is a major shortage. My idea was that Apple would prioritize their own channels, but my order from early this morning when they opened is scheduled for delivery in more than a month! So I guess I was wrong, and just like so many others I'll just have to wait...
Whoops, I seem to have killed my themes, plugins and uploads dir when upgrading... not good. So there might be some dead links that should have had content around. For that I apologize. I'll do my best to restore them, but should you discover anything missing while surfing around on my blog, do tell.
I've been developing apps for the iPhone since the early betas of iOS 2.0, and one of the things I'd like back then was to use SOAP services. Back then, Apple had an old, half-implemented command-line program called wsmakestubs that you could use to generate some stubs that half worked. That program has not been updated, nor has any more SOAP support been added to iOS itself.
@adurdin has made a skin for the iPhone simulator that may wear less on your eyes when you're sitting there developing all day: 
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Visit his blog for instructions on how to install it.
The kind of errors I hate the most are the ones you cannot even find in the documentation. When you get no compiler warnings, and even an incentive from your preferred auto-completion tool to go straight into them.
I mentioned libpd for iOS a while ago, and now I found that it's ready to be played with. But as soon as I wanted to play with spectral analysis, I started missing tools, so trying to get cartopol~ and poltocart~ to work, I ended up putting in support for all the Cyclone objects. When the work was done (it compiled and ran fine) I put it on GitHub: https://github.com/niklassaers/PdTest02WithCyclone. Many thanks to Richard Lawler for giving me some guidelines about how to do this. (If I made no sense in the above, you should check out Pure Data)