Wednesday, August 24, 2011

My App

When I moved to my new apartment there was a flock of crows that was living very close, 20 feets from the bedroom. With the window open, the crows were intrusive, incessant and sufficient to disturb my precious morning sleep. I can tell you that they ware unbelievably noisy especially early in the morning (4 am). After weeks of sleep deprivation I started to have dark eye circles and an incredible passion getting rid of crows (: Hitting on a empty coffee can with wooden spoon was not effective (: so started to do some research on the web for anything helpful. I tried many technics without any reasonable success. With trial and errors, I discovered that the d4mn birds were far more intelligent that I taught. For the first time Internet was not my friend and have put it aside and made a tour to my local library where I found a plethora of public research that inspired me to hatch iScareCrow :)

Here you are after 3 years iScareCrow (Say; Bye! Bye! Crows) on iTunes



Thursday, June 3, 2010

The Startup - The Thirty Days Challenge

Hello you,

Long time no see :). Yes, It's a longtime!

After resolving my personal issues, and missing motivation, I bring back from the dusty graves my learning book. I will now restart all over again. But this time, will do it the right way, as Its should.

Today I post on my blog, the great news. The officially « The Startup ». Starting today I will post concrete real life information on my steps on learning Objective-C, as it should be done.

See you, on next post.

The Victor

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Happy Holidays - The Thirty Days Challenge


I just wanted to wish all my blog readers and donators a Happy Holidays and thank you for being a supportive reader and part of my family!

Have a safe and joyful holiday season with your family, friends and loved ones. Have some fun, enjoy your company and be thankful for your loved ones you are able to celebrate with.

For my girlfriend who lets me do what I do, Thank You hunny!

Monday, December 21, 2009

The winter solstice update - The Thirty Days Challenge

Ah, another winter solstice that come and goes. Today is the winter solstice, it marks the shortest day in the year for us.

Today isn't about the shortest day of the year, its about one of the most challenging experience of life. The challenge to learn, to create and succeed!

Imagine how you would feel if you finally did it. What a sense of tremendous triumph that it would provide. Can you imagine that? You would wake up one morning to realise that you had finally managed to come up with the ultimate game/app, that will make everyone in iWorld satisfy and happy. Then a legend would be born.

You would rapidly realise, that this has to be a fantasy. In true life, no such thing is ever possible.

The question, the killer question is; can I create something out of nothing? Probably! It's a damn tricky task. But possible! I may, though, be able to make something small and turn-it into something much bigger and more significant. That simply requires some insight and imagination.

Fortunately I'm lucky enough to be abundantly blessed with creativity. I just need one hopeful idea that I can pick up, explore and expand it. I'm an inventive person and hopefully will not stand still for long.

I'm about as close as I can get now to satisfy most critics.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

*** The French Update *** Après le deuil - The Thirty Days Challenge



Après plusieurs mois d’attentes je te donne enfin des nouvelles de mon cheminement!!!

Après le deuil, comment poursuivre sa vie ? Comme pour la mort c'est un peu la même chose... Chacun pense être capable de comprendre car il projette ses propres angoisses mais aussi sa propre peine. Quelques soit la perte, certaines personnes qui n'avaient pas eu de deuil ont certainement autant souffert que moi.

Pour autant, ces personnes ne peuvent pas comprendre ma douleur, même si la leur est très grande. Il est très difficile de décrire cette douleur à quelqu'un qui ne la connaît pas... Ceux qui nous entourent en souffrent, se sentant impuissants alors qu'eux aussi sont blessés.

Voici un exemple : « C'est un peu comme croiser un homme ou une femme perdu dans la neige au Nunavut sans parler d'Inuits... Tu vas lui donner à boire et à manger, le réchauffer, lui tenir compagnie et ça c'est déjà énorme car c'est ce qui va lui sauver la vie... Mais tu ne le comprendras jamais ni l'aider à retrouver son chemin puisque tu n'arrives pas à savoir d'où il vient... Mais lui, une fois "reconstruit" il y arrivera peut-être... C'est ce que chaque jour tu fait, tu donne une nourriture à l'âme, tu me réchauffe quand j’ai si froid... ».

Retour à la mise à jour, je tiens à te remercier et que tu crois toujours en moi. Je tient fortement a le faire car sans toi aujourd’hui je ne sais pas ce qui serait arrivé. Les commentaires que tu as laissé et tout ce que tu as manifesté pour m’encourager monétairement ou non fut pour moi d’un plus grand soutient. Je ne t’oublie pas !!!

J’ai enfin trouvé un emploi et quand je dit un emploi, c’est que pour moi, ça signifie beaucoup, pas juste parce que mon employeur est ce que je ne pouvais imaginer de mieux mais parce que j’aime ce que je fais et comme auparavant a mon ancien emploi, je le fait passionnément, avec beaucoup de plaisir !!! Je travail maintenant avec une excellente équipe, un bel horaire, un emploi stable et beaucoup d’organisation de temps ☺

Durant les prochains mois, je vais me consacrer beaucoup a l’étude de mon livre, j’ai enfin pu terminer le chapitre qui me bloquais grâce à l’aide de mon beau frère (car comme tu le sais j’ai aucune étude en programmation alors toute l’aide que je peux avoir je vais le chercher) et maintenant je vais pouvoir avancer dans l’apprentissage.

J’ai encore beaucoup d’idées qui me trottent dans la tête alors pour pouvoir tout mettre en œuvre ma priorité pour l’instant est d’écrire mes idées et étudier !!! Au départ, j’étudiais car pour moi cela deviendrait source de revenus mais maintenant je le fais comme passe temps et dès le départ jamais j’aurais cru te dire ce genre de choses mais oui je le fais comme passe temps (jusqu’au jour que cela devienne payant) car maintenant j’ai un travail !!! Je suis l’homme le plus heureux en ce moment et rien n’y personne ne pourra changer ce sentiment qui m’habite !!!

Je vais continuer a écrire sur mon blog, te tenir au courant des développements et je t’en prie d’être patient envers mon apprentissage et de ne jamais cessez de croire en moi et en mes rêves qui m’habitent car tu peux me croire qu’un jour tu verras bien une application qui me représente et d’autres qui suivront à l’image de mes idées et de celles qui m’ont été suggérées ☺

Durant ces dernier temps, plusieurs choses se sont passé. Le fournisseur local de téléphonie cellulaire va maintenant offrir le iPhone. Compagnie CDMA (TELUS), vient de terminer la mise à jour du réseau 3G à 3.5G HSPA (LTE).

Je suis officiellement le premier programmeur iPhone de cette nouvelle génération. Je pense même faire des outils qui pourraient les aider !!!

Alors voilà des petites nouvelles de mon cheminement personnel après autant de temps d’attente, je te remercie pour le soutient et continue de venir me visiter et de me lire et pourquoi pas commenter!!!!

Ma prochaine écriture sera, je le souhaite pour te dire que ma nouvelle application est en liste et toute prête à mettre en ligne pour une futur application !!!

Merci encore.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Hard Time : Status Quo - The Thirty Days Challenge


Hello,

Yesterday Canadian government unveiled the unemployment rate for my region. It is at 11.4% for the period of August 9, 2009 to September 5, 2009.

If you don't mind, let me share with you my past/current feelings and phases I had to go through, lately. This can help someone!

My personal experience with the lost of my job was like a kick in the balls and one of my life biggest head blows. At first, I thought loosing my job was all my fault. So when I lost my job I also lost my self-esteem. This happen even though I was top-gun at work (one of the best).

After I lost my job, the world stop spinning for me, day after day, I started to forget how skilled I was. And this also eroded all my self confidence I had. I isolated myself, stop social life, forgot all my friends, shutdown my phone and did not answer the door when someone was knocking. I also stop sleeping, shaving, eating regularly and many other things (It was not nice to see and not nice to look at). Then some health issue appeared.

In the meantime I was sending my resume desesperatly everywhere, weeks have passed and months. One of ten, receive emails/calls for interviews, but with no succes (Was nicely shaved for the purpose).

I started to ask myself: There surely something wrong with me! Definitely there was :-) But I was unable to see it, I was blinded by feelings, physically and emotionally destroyed that was noising my personality behaviour.

I understood something very important! The most important part before job seeking: Is to recover mentally, physically and also restore the feeling of self confidence and hold on to it.

Here is how I have done and still doing to restore the self-esteem and self respect:

First I started to talk about how I was feeling to closes ones. It helped me to open myself and recognize how down I became. After few small-talk, positive arguments immerge. And realised that it was time to work on myself. (A messy messy broken house doesn't sell good)

I decided that it was time to investe on myself. I started to eat regularly, did little walks (30 minutes per day) to change my mind of negative thoughts out of my head. I also started to restore my sexual life (once a day). All this worked very well to free my mind and have a satisfying recovery sleep (7H).

I rewritten my resume. This was one of the best way to remember all of the good things I have accomplished. I have focused on my resume because it was my self-marketing tool where I listed all my accomplishments. And I can tell you, that thinking about those achievements, It helped a lot to restore my self confidence.

If you are in a similar situation, this can help you too! You will be surprised to discover how much you’ve accomplished when you rewrite your resume. Then you’ll be convinced how good you are. And you’ll have all the self-confidence you need to present yourself.

I recover much but still don't have a job today and still working hard and will not let myself disparate. It is really hard work and I have win back my self-esteem with self respect ;-)


Thats all for today


Tuesday, September 1, 2009

After the storm - The Thirty Days Challenge


Hi there!,

After the storm, the sun should come. I'm back but not on schedule. With this short brake I learned something ! The less money you have, poorest you are and more chances you have health problems. Its mathematics and we can make an algorithm equation !

For all of the hype around A(H1N1) Flu Virus, we should watch more disaster movies :-)

H1N1 Flu Virus is a strain of the influenza virus that usually affects pigs, but which may also make people sick. H1N1 flu virus is a respiratory illness that causes symptoms similar to those of the regular human seasonal flu. Here is Canada, because of cold winter, we are waiting for a second wave and maybe a mutation of the virus with our common seasonal flu.

It is true that this year will not be a great year for poor society, because of the pandemic flu Virus. I don't say that all poor people will catch the flu but there is a greater percentage they will. Because of many factors like eating habits, access to proper medication etc.

Vaccination with a flu shot has been shown to produce an immune response against flu viruses in certain people, but not as great at it should be. Too bad more people going to die because of this.

Our government just announces two initiatives in treating and preventing H1N1. The first is: Health Agency of Canada is mobilizing for a talk with big specialist in the domain. The second is: Health Agency and the Institutes for Health Research are providing an additional $2.7 million to the Influenza Research Network to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the vaccination, as well as implementation vaccine programs.

I don't know what you think about this, but it feels like beta testing software. All Canadiens will be like beta testers (for some humor) Weenypigs "Guinea Pigs". Is it going to be like "Russian roulette" vaccination?

I'm happy that I'm not the first "Weenypig" :-) "It's a no-brainer," who should get It first! The big threat here in Canada, is the flu as the tendency to mutate quickly. Pharmaceutical companies say they are ready to begin making a swine flu vaccine, but as the virus constantly mutates (and more on winter), some questioning starts: How quickly and accurately they will follow the mutation for proper production and distribution on the right mutation?

Ok! Ok! Back on the track. I'm still seeking for a job (My daily full time work). I have some promising perspectives on sights, should receive news before the end of this month. Since I'm almost fully recover I should also engine back the challenge on root :-)

Thank you so much for all your support!