I’ve been doing very much AIR development in the last few weeks.
First I tried to create a simple twitter client, then I started to build a twitter desktop search app, but switched over to make a gmail notifier…
As the gmail notifier was almost finished I decided to put all my effort into a new project: a multi-column twitter client.
And there I am.

Twitter Client
The twitter client is pretty much like TweetDeck, but I’m trying to put a bit more smoothness into the user interface.
It supports multiple columns with the ability to group your twitter friends.
There will be a complex theme management with stuff like gradients and, of course, a theme builder.
So far the only big problem is the memory usage and I’m not quite sure how to fix that.
I think I’ll release a first alpha preview in the next few days, so stay tuned.

Software Challenge
Another very interesting project I’m involved in is the Software Challenge, a competition for german schools.
Each participating school team has to code a client that is able to play the game “High Voltage”.
These clients then have to compete against each other.
Currently the competition is in full activity, 15 out of 37 encounters are over.
And what should I say… our client is at #1 till the first day.
http://sc.gfxpro.eu/standings_15.html (Heinrich-Heine-Schule [HHSH] is our school)
One encounter consits of 6 matches. We have lost some matches already, but we’ve won all 15 encounters by now.
Today (yesterday actually) we had to fight against the second-placed team,
and we were extremely happy to see our client win 6:0 !
The code is written in Java, straightforward using SVN (thx to @iReemo).
You can see the replays of all matches on http://sc.gfxpro.eu/. (click on vs, then choose a gif link).

This is one example of us winnig today. We are the blue ones