I’ve been enjoying Snow Leopard for a while. While developing my current application for the iPhone, I’ve been taking full advantage of Clang/LLVM’s static analysis. I’ve found it to be and indispensable tool now. I’ve been able to identify at least 20 memory leaks and other random bugs just by doing a “Build and Analyze”.

As John Siracusa puts it in his review of Snow Leopard:

I’m sure Apple is going hog-wild running the static analyzer on all of its applications and the operating system itself. The prospect of an automated way to discover bugs that may have existed for years in the depths of a huge codebase is almost pornographic to developers—platform owners in particular. To the degree that Mac OS X 10.6.0 is more bug-free than the previous 10.x.0 releases, LLVM surely deserves some significant part of the credit.

Work, despite being fun and challenging, is no doubt taking a lot of my time. In the few free moments I have, I’ve tried to work on both my iPhone applications and games. I also helped my dad with his hotel’s webpage, and I think its looking awesome.

Anyways, as part of my ongoing self-training for iPhone development, I’m halfway through “Beginning iPhone Development - Exploring the iPhone SDK”, a book by Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche. It’s been fun up to now and, even though I knew a lot of the initial stuff, advanced view handling with controllers was something I had lots of trouble with.

I leave you with a screen from my latest application:

A simple game using UIPickerView

I’m in Yosemite National Park, enjoying the awesome vistas, snow covered rocks and newly formed rivers and waterfalls.

Badger Snow area is open until tomorrow, so I’m going to snowboard, hopefully more than half the day!!

A view towards one of the mountains in Yosemite National Park