I visited Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, and Hyderabad.  It was a very long week and crazy busy.

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The forms I completed took nearly a week for customs to review.  Now I have to register for the interview.  The first available time is May of 2017, OMG!  I called them to confirm and they said, yes this is the earliest.  Your best bet, because people cancel frequently, is to keep checking the website for an opening.  Of course, who has time to check a website eight times a day.  So I wrote this program to crawl the site hourly.  Now, I just run the app when it finds an opening, it emails me to go reschedule my appointment.

I can’t imagine why you would but, you can download the app here:

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Sense when people get home and text me.

Something for the office to know when people arrive, maybe NFC.

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See yellow block at the end of the snippet below.

-(id) initWithParentNode:(CCNode*)parentNode Player:(NSInteger)player Icon:(NSInteger)icon Color:(NSInteger)color{
 
        // always call "super" init
        // Apple recommends to re-assign "self" with the "super" return value
        if( (self=[super init])) {             
       
        CGSize winSize = [[CCDirector sharedDirector] winSizeInPixels];
 
        NSString *strFile = [[NSString alloc] init];
       
        if ((color == -1) && (icon == -1))
            strFile = @"player_silver_car.png";
        else {
            switch (color)
            {
                case 0:
                    strFile = @"player_blue_";
                    break;
                case 1:
                    strFile = @"player_yellow_";
                    break;
                case 2:
                    strFile = @"player_red_";
                    break;
                case 3:
                    strFile = @"player_green_";
                    break;
            }
 
            switch (icon)
            {
                case kPlayerChicken:
                    strFile = [strFile stringByAppendingString:@"chicken.png"];
                    break;
                case kPlayerBoard:
                    strFile = [strFile stringByAppendingString:@"board.png"];
                    break;
                case kPlayerTruck:
                    strFile = [strFile stringByAppendingString:@"truck.png"];
                    break;
                case kPlayerCar:
                    strFile = [strFile stringByAppendingString:@"car.png"];
                    break;
            }
        }
       
        playerLap = 1;
        playerSwipes = 0;
        playerSprite = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:strFile];
       
        // Get Audio File
        audioSoundFile = [self getAudioFile:icon];
 
        // Load the Lap Sprites
//        CCFadeOut *fo = [CCFadeOut actionWithDuration:.1];
 
        lapSprite1 = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@"lapindicator1.png"];
        lapSprite1.position = CGPointMake(winSize.width/2, winSize.height/2);
        lapSprite1.opacity = 0;
        lapSprite2 = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@"lapindicator2.png"];
        lapSprite2.position = CGPointMake(winSize.width/2, winSize.height/2);
        lapSprite2.opacity = 0;
        lapSprite3 = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@"lapindicator3.png"];
        lapSprite3.position = CGPointMake(winSize.width/2, winSize.height/2);
        lapSprite3.opacity = 0;
 
        [parentNode addChild:lapSprite1];
        [parentNode addChild:lapSprite2];
        [parentNode addChild:lapSprite3];
       
//        [lapSprite1 runAction:fo];
//        [lapSprite2 runAction:fo];
//        [lapSprite3 runAction:fo];
//        
        // Get start position from the bundle
        RaceLayer *rl = (RaceLayer*)parentNode;
        if (player == 1)
            startPoint = rl.currentTrack.startPosition1;
        else
            startPoint = rl.currentTrack.startPosition2;
        rl = nil;
 
        [playerSprite setPosition:startPoint];
             
        [parentNode addChild:playerSprite z:10 tag:kTagSpritePlayer + playerNumber];
        playerSprite.rotation = -90;
 
        playerStuckCount = 0;
        soundOn = true;
/*
 *   Keeping this here for posterity.  
 *   This one line actually creates a bug that prevents the screens from being reloaded
 *   It took me part-time work over 10 days to find this one error.  
 *   I had to completely rip the code apart and slowly add parts back until I found the bug.
 *   COCOS2D caches images so it only loads them once.
*    My assumption for the error is that by releasing the filename, when COCOS2D checks to see if the image is cached,
*    the memory has been released and it throws a "BAD_ACCESS" error but does NOT say why.
 *
        [strFile release];
*/        
        // Manually schedule update via the undocumented CCScheduler class.
        [[CCScheduler sharedScheduler] scheduleUpdateForTarget:self priority:0 paused:NO];
    }
   
    return self;
}

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I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

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Has anyone else noticed the major innovation in technology has shifted from corporate America to the consumers? I might be slow but I just discovered this when talking to a client about Social Networking. The technology we use at home has become so ubiquitous and easy to use we don’t even notice it. However, when we go to work, we don’t get that same experience. The technology is dated and limited in capability.

Because of the high-cost of entry, corporation’s introduced us to PC’s. About that same time email burst onto the scene. Those days of business leadership in IT are long gone. Two easy examples are:

• A modern enterprise organization needs social networking like LinkedIn or Facebook because college graduates entering the workforce are demanding it; they’d rather give up email than Facebook.
• Look up your favorite corporation in the AppStore, they’ll probably be there. iPad and all types of mobility solutions are coming on fast and furious. Obviously, this didn’t come from corporate innovation; it’s driven by the consumer experience.

Customers are savvy and so are employees. I yearn for the days of leadership in IT.

In the 80’s / 90’s – Enterprise IT led the push for IT.

• PC – companies had to
• Email
• Internet
• Productivity (word processors)

2000’s – Focus on Y2K

• Internet enters every household
• Leverage the power of RIA and SOA
• Beginning of social application begins
• 3G and iPhone

2010 – Consumer mentality shift

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Mobility

The post Turning the Technology Leadership Tables first appeared on LeRoy Family Blog.

Has anyone else noticed the major innovation in technology has shifted from corporate America to the consumers? I might be slow but I just discovered this when talking to a client about Social Networking. The technology we use at home has become so ubiquitous and easy to use we don’t even notice it. However, when we go to work, we don’t get that same experience. The technology is dated and limited in capability.

Because of the high-cost of entry, corporation’s introduced us to PC’s. About that same time email burst onto the scene. Those days of business leadership in IT are long gone. Two easy examples are:

• A modern enterprise organization needs social networking like LinkedIn or Facebook because college graduates entering the workforce are demanding it; they’d rather give up email than Facebook.
• Look up your favorite corporation in the AppStore, they’ll probably be there. iPad and all types of mobility solutions are coming on fast and furious. Obviously, this didn’t come from corporate innovation; it’s driven by the consumer experience.

Customers are savvy and so are employees. I yearn for the days of leadership in IT.

In the 80’s / 90’s – Enterprise IT led the push for IT.

• PC – companies had to
• Email
• Internet
• Productivity (word processors)

2000’s – Focus on Y2K

• Internet enters every household
• Leverage the power of RIA and SOA
• Beginning of social application begins
• 3G and iPhone

2010 – Consumer mentality shift

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Mobility

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Of course the place to start is finding a hosting company. If you search the Net, you’ll find dozens of companies at very low prices. I reviewed several options and settled on BlueHost.com. My package was $4.95 for 24 months. One thing I found rather ironic, is so many of the hosting companies are actually the same entity.

Fortunately, I use WordPress, one of the best Blog tools available. Bluehost uses a scripting system to configure many different packages, including WordPress. Moving my blog from site to another was just too easy. There is an import/export utility that made the migration effortless. Viola, a better blog!

Having my site hosted also removes the concern about keeping my server running. The one issue I might have is how to handle backups but that can be automated too.

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