Zenonia

iTunes LinkZenonia is a RPG game by Gamevil. $5.99A modified post from TheAppEraThe long awaited RPG by Gamevil has finally made its way onto the App Store. Zenonia has sold extremely well in Korea with it being download over 600,000 onto various mobile phones. With over 40 hours of gameplay, it was interesting to see if it is a step above the competitors. After just 30 minutes of playing the game, I can safely say YES! Zenonia is an amazing game that provides some big aspects that RPG games have been lacking on the App Store.The best graphics in a RPG game on the App Store before Zenonia would have to be Chronicles of Inotia: Legend of Feanor...

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Another List for WWDC First-Timers

Attending WWDC for the first time is sort of like getting a diagnosis from a doctor: it's a good idea to get second opinions because not everybody has the same experiences. Here's another list of suggestions for first time attendees from Mac and iPhone developer Jiva DeV...

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Part 6

Just a quick warning. For the last several weekends, my weekend ritual has been to write an installment of the OpenGL ES From the Ground Up tutorials. The sixth installment probably won't be coming out this weekend, however. I'm backlogged on my current writing project, plus my daughters are in four dance performances this weekend, and I have relatives coming into town. The chance that I'll be able to sneak off and geek out writing about OpenGL ES are slim to none. But never fear, more installments will be forthcomi...

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Tap Tap Coldplay

iTunes LinkTap Tap Coldplay is a music game by Tapulous. $3.99Everybody knows of some of the most downloaded on the App Store by Tapulous called Tap Tap Revenge (Now TTR 2.5). I was a bit skeptical when the paid versions came out, with complete track lists for different themes or artists. Tap Tap Coldplay is easily the biggest band Tapulous has got on board, with this top selling game being in the charts for a very long time. Coldplay is a great band, but for some reason I had never bought one of their albums before, staying closer to my punk rock genre. This game succesfully made me buy Viva la Vida or Death by All His Friends by Coldplay as...

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Siberian Strike

iTunes LinkSiberian Strike is a top down shooter by Gameloft. $0.99 Siberian Strike has totally changed the way old ports are successfully brought onto the iPhone. Time and time again we see ports off various devices that sometimes work (Assassin's Creed) and sometimes don't. Siberian Strike is a totally revamped mobile port, that has become my favourite top down shooter. This game is an amazing pick up for just $0.99, especially when I thought it was a great deal at it's original price of $5.99. The storyline is pretty basic, and doesn't actually have much effect in the game. You are pilot Eliot Freeman in the 1940's, Russia wants to invade...

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WWDC Session Data Now Available at Attendee Site

If you've got a ticket for WWDC 2009, you can now get to the "official" times and dates for the sessions, including an iCalendar you can subscribe to, by going to the WWDC 2009 Attendee Si...

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WWDC Session Data is Gone

Well, that didn't last long. Apparently, Apple didn't want us having access to the session date, time, and room information yet. The JSON feed for the session website has been changed so the previously posted scripts no longer wo...

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WWDC JSON Credit

I've been remiss. I included proper credit in my tweet, but not in my blog posts. The fact that the JSON data underlying Apple's WWDC session page includes dates, times, and room information was not my discovery, it was Glenn Seueira's. Thanks Glenn, and apologies for leaving that off the earlier pos...

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Another iCal Script

The Big Nerd Ranch Blog has a more elegant script for converting the WWDC session data to iCalendar format. But, though the code is more compact, they missed the time zone, which would cause a problem for ...

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WWDC Session Times for iCal Import

Here's a quick-and-dirty hack of the WWDC session script to create an iCalendar file that can be imported into iCal. Again, this is public domain, feel free to hack away and improve it.#!/usr/bin/env ruby## This program will download the latest session JSON data # from the WWDC website and turn it into an iCal## Sorry about the cheezy HTML formatting; I am not a designer.# If you'd like to contribute a better looking design, I'll# incorporate it.## Requires one of the following two gems to be installed:## gem install json# gem install json_purerequire 'rubygems'require 'net/http'require 'open-uri'require 'json'require 'date'output = <<OUTPUTBEGIN:VCALENDARVERSION:2.0PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//ENOUTPUTr = open("http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/data/sessions.json").readparsed...

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Better Session Script

Ryan McCuaig sent me a kick-ass re-write of my WWDC session script. This one outputs the information with much, much better formatting. Here's the very fine script:#!/usr/bin/env ruby## This program will download the latest session JSON data # from the WWDC website and will parse it into a plain # HTML table so it can be viewed.## Requires one of the following two gems to be installed:## gem install json# gem install json_pure## Also requires installation of Haml/Sass:## gem install haml## This script was written by Ryan McCuaig, based on a script by Jeff LaMarcherequire 'net/http'require 'open-uri'require 'rubygems'require 'json'require 'haml'require 'sass'JSON_FEED = 'http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/data/sessions.json'class Session attr_accessor :title,:focus,:start,:description,:type,:identifier,...

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WWDC Session Times

Okay, the session times have not been officially released for WWDC, but the underlying data used for the sessions website contains time and room data. Of course, since this hasn't been released, it's completely unofficial and likely to change, but for those who have been asking for WWDC session times, I give you... not the session times, but a script that will fetch the latest data and format it into a HTML table for you.It's a ruby script, so it should run on any stock OS X machine. This is public domain code, do with it what you will. If you improve it, I'd love a copy of your version.#!/usr/bin/env ruby## This program will download the latest session JSON data # from the WWDC website and will parse it into a plain # HTML table so it can be viewed.## Sorry about the cheezy HTML formatting;...

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