My work speed and pace has slowed down quite considerably since leaving my internship at Microsoft South Africa, but it is not necessarily a bad thing. I've been roped in to give Software Development workshops to Wits students on Microsoft technologies, and as part of this have a lab at my disposal. There are only 6 iMacs that came with the lab (1 which I can borrow and do what I want with for some decent portion of this year, which I will be using to learn iOS dev!) but myself and Shimane (the other head of the Software Dev interest group who I will be working with) will be getting another 5 iMacs/PCs to set up for the lab, and currently my biggest time-sink is learning my way around OSX, doing fresh installs on the iMacs that we have, and preparing the workshops I will be doing. Not too shabby.
So, our lab I think will end up being quite interesting, we will have 5 iMacs dual booting either a Windows or Linux derivative (XP, 8 Beta when it comes out eventually [dev preview for now], and Ubuntu [or Fedora if I can convince Shimane to use it instead]), and I will begin to try get "swag" (devices, posters, etc) for the lab as soon as we are done setting it up completely.
So, to finish off my minor bragging for the day, 2 of my games hit 1000 downloads each on the same day last week, Yahtzee and Galactic Jump. Hopefully I will be back into doing a decent amount of Dev work by the end of the week when the time consuming parts of my job at MSIT become more relaxed.
I may or may not write about the things I learn this week. Otherwise I'll have to think of something else.