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So, welcome to my blog.

You may come here cause you are a friend of QemuX, my GUI for the Qemu System Emulator. QemuX is my first programming project for the Macintosh. Since 1999 I’m familiar with HTML, then in 2002 i started out some PHP programming and wrote some things like a board, simple chat, messaging system… for my own purpose. In May 2003 it was time for a new computer and a very good friend of mine, orangeboy, who already owned an iBook brought me to Mac. So since two years, my computer is an iBook G3, 900MHz, 640MB Ram, Airport and I’m very happy with it and never want to switch back to Windows.

Last summer I started some small coding on the Mac with the help of “Learning Cocoa with Objective-C” and the first challenge for me was to do a simple program to launch Qemu – that’s what you now know as QemuX. In February I began coding an app to do simple drag and drop between the iTunes Library and my sister’s non-Apple-Flash-MP3-Player. So I started investigating how iTunes organized all the files and about a month later I got a simple app which showed all songs and playlists from the iTunes Library in a similiar NSTableView like iTunes. But as I found out, you can simply drag songs from iTunes to the Finder, so my app was obsolete.

As I heard from the CenterStageProject I thought I could contribute the code not to waste it. And hey, they wanted me to do the iTunes/Music part of CenterStage. After reading and reading the Docs I think I got the basics to really start the hard work. After having some differences with the dev-team I decided to quit. But believe me, I did not waste the time with the iTunes stuff, it will be helpful later, for sure!

That’s enough for introduction, stay tuned for more posts…

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