Archive for the ‘coding’ Category

It’s alive!

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

My latest creation is ready for late-night TV. Hopefully it’ll be ready for prime time soon, but one step at a time. For your enjoyment, go play my Internet rock, paper, scissors game. It’s designed for the iPhone, but you can play it on IE or Safari. Right now you need to have an opponent to play, but maybe I’ll be adding an AI in the near future. Stay tuned!

iPhone therefore iAm?

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Ok, I’m not ashamed of it. I love my iPhone. And this isn’t a casual thing. It’s a Barry White kinda love. So now, being a software guy, I’m compelled to start writing things to use on it. This is where the honeymoon seems to be ending.

 Apple doesn’t really want me to be able to write things that run on the iPhone. Not directly, anyway. The iPhone does a great job of displaying web pages through the Safari browser, but this isn’t the same as being able to write applications that run directly on the phone’s underlying operating system. To do really cool things (like add things to the address book, integrate with the on-board Google map, etc.) you need an API. But according to the Apple 2.0 guys, there’s hope. I’ll keep my fingers crossed (as I sleep with my iPhone gently cradled in my hands).