Thomas S. Nielsen's blog

Yes, all the statements above are now facts. My iPhone app is happily waiting to be reviewed by the Apple fairies, my homemade inventory system is now working hard remembering all the hardware serial numbers at work, and just about an hour ago, a pack of pigs flew by my window. An awesome day, in other words.

Okay, one of the above might be a little questionable. But whatever. Let’s celebrate this great day in history by watching a great movie.

Yes, you heard it here first: I am getting close to completing my first iPhone app! The functionality is nearly complete, and it looks great so far! Here is the todo list of remaining stuff:

• Refine interface
• Find that last memory leak
• Find out why it crashes at one function call
• Test on real device (not in simulator)
• Get through Apple’s approval process
• ???
• Profit

And you know you will read it here first when it launches. So check in regularly!

Inspired by Kevin Rose’s 10 new years resolutions, I figured I should make some for myself also.

1. Blog at least once a week
2. Find a bigger apartment
3. Publish at least one of my projects as a GPL project
4. Publish an iPhone app
5. Learn more international recipes and cook more varied and healthier food
6. Upload some form of tutorial video on my website (preferably several, maybe even regularly)
7. Pick up exercising again
8. Drink less soda (and generally eat less sugar)
9. Save more money each month
10. Find a tenth item for my list

Inventory system

Thought I would add a screenshot from my inventory system. Text is in Norwegian only for now. I will translate it if I consider uploading it somewhere.

What you are seeing is the search function, where I just performed a search with a barcode scanner (which by the way works flawlessly on Ubuntu Linux, and not at all on my XP machine at work).

Currently the inventory system has the following features:

• Add, edit and delete items
• Add, edit and delete users/owners
• Add, edit and delete owner groups (people, storage rooms, etc)
• Add, edit and delete item types (PCs, laptops, printers, etc)
• Add, edit and delete models (Dell optiplex GX280, HP 1740, Wyse S50, etc)
• Add, edit and delete conditions (In use, Discarded, In for repair, available, etc)
• Search by barcode, owner, type or model
• See statistics of number of items, owners and changes (changes are displayed for past day, week, and total)
• List all owners
• List all items
• Each item is registered with barcode, date of purchase, date of last edit, model, owner, type and condition
• Dropdown lists are used where possible/reasonable

If you are interested, please ask. If I get any response, the chance of me open sourcing it is far greater.

There is just too much going on for me to keep my blog updated. I often doesn’t even have the time to update twitter. Check back around the middle of December, when my exams are done.