Well, ballooning season here in Arizona is pretty much done for the summer. With the temperature beginning to climb, it’s time to take my hobbies to a more indoor variety. Since receiving the Macbook Pro Laptop of Awesomeness, I’ve been learning about iPhone application development.

Objective-C takes me back to my “olden days” of learning C and C++ in college. I had to smile the first time I saw a .h (header) file using XCode. Good times. :) Oh yeah, pointers are back, baby!

I’m starting up with Head First iPhone Development by O’Reilly Press. If you’ve never picked up a Head First book and you’re a techie, give it a shot. You have to have a sense of humor, but it’s a completely fun learning experience. Especially if you’re like me and get into puzzles and games. The books are full of excellent examples and you manage to learn solid skills while having fun reading. Definitely not your usual dry geek technology tome!

So this summer it’s coding, graphic design, and maybe reformatting my novel from NaNoWriMo 2009 and working on it in Scrivener. That and the occasional weekend 6am hike before the temperature is broiling. And of course, pool time. Swimming, that is!