First App "Where Is It Smart Kids Edition" submitted to App Store

After a few weeks' "intensive" hard work, finally submitted my first app "Where Is It Smart Kids Edition" to App Store for review. (read: sick of working on it after so long, can't wait to get rid of it to start working on something else....)It's just the "heavily modified" Cocos2dCupInDice project I had before.The submitted time is around 10pm 26/04/2012 Sydney time. Interested to see how long it takes to get a response or receive result.Whether it's accepted or rejected, it's a learning experience for me, doesn't really matter. Will post further information here if there's any update. Wish...

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Learning from "Draw Something" - async/turn based way of playing

Was studying the flow of the popular game "Draw Something", and like to call it "Async/Turn based" way of playing(unless any one got a better idea about the name :-P ).Here's how it works: 1) Player 1 first choose or find a friend/opponent to play with, either by email/facebook/random 2) Player 1 do something (in Draw Something, it's create a drawing) and send the data to player 2 3) Player 2 received the request (prompt to install app if not already installed), do something (in Draw Something, it's guess what player 1 was drawing, if correct, both get coins), then player 2 repeat the same...

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Any one know how different "Blogger/blogspot" domains work?

While looking at my sitemeter stats, noticed some domains which I never seen before.First, there's this one looks like from France "http://new2objectivec.blogspot.fr/"Then this one from India "http://new2objectivec.blogspot.in/"This one from UK "http://new2objectivec.blogspot.co.uk/"This one from Germany? "http://new2objectivec.blogspot.de/"Also, recently, when I entered my domain name as "http://new2objectivec.blogspot.com/", it automatically redirects to Australian version: "http://new2objectivec.blogspot.com.au/"I guess from Blogger/blogspot point of view, by redirecting traffic to local servers...

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Cocos2dDiceInCup Minor Update

I made some minor update to the "Cocos2dDiceInCup" game, mainly updating the images to proper Cup and Dice (instead of the ugly "rock" and "seeker" previously). Otherwise everything remain the same, still under MIT license. And I promise I will be "very happy" to see if any one copied my code this time, just if you can kindly let me know or provide a link back to this blog. Thanks!Updated Link for Cocos2dDiceInCupVer1.1....

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Have you started using Source Control in XCode 4?

I always know the importance of Source Control. But I always got hundreds of excuses for doing it tomorrow, or put it down in the bottom of the to do list. Until I accidentally deleted a full working project today.....Lucky I saved it back from Trash, but the shock still gave me high blood pressure for at least an hour or two.....It could take a while to setup and understand the concept if you never done it before, so would suggest you to try it with a small project first. Make sure you are clear with all the required steps first before putting your major stuffs in there.Have a look at this Apple...

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The 10000 hour rule

Saw this post by Jeff Vogel talking about "The 10000 hour rule" and felt quite touched. If you search on the net and you will find lots of info about that too.I have copied the quote from Ira Glass below, hope you enjoy it as I do. You got to have faith with what you are doing. Although your 1st X Apps/Games won't be the best seller or Top 25, the experience is helping you to get closer to that. Just keep working on it, do a lot of work and never give ...

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Don't rotate or scale your touchable Sprite in Cocos2D,

Got stuck with a bug for almost 2 weeks. What happened was, I tried to rotate and scale down some sprites. Problem is, I found that all the touchable Sprites which used to work perfectly before the rotate and scale down won't respond to touches that were around top or bottom 15-20% area of the Sprite. That is, users now have to tap at the middle of the Sprite - which is very very very annoying.After all sort of troubleshooting, I finally worked out it's because of the Sprites I am using. Unfortunately, been a developer who's not very good with designing and graphic :-(, plus a bit lazy (sometimes)....

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Patch your Mac ASAP!

There's this news about 600K+ Mac been infected with "Flashback trojan" (some reports: here, here and here), make sure you patch your Mac ASAP following this instruction from Apple!According to the instruction, it's "Java 1.6.0_29" that's having lots of problems and should upgrade to "1.6.0_31". And to check what version of Java runtime you have installed in your Mac, you have to run "java -version".I tried it on my MacBook and this is what I got:MacBook-Pro:$ java -versionNo Java runtime present, requesting install.MacBook-Pro:$Ha ha, I didn't even have it installed...So looks like my Mac is...

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6thMega site down?

Looks like the whole web site for 6thMega is down at the moment. The godaddy info says it's expired 23/3/2012, hope they can get it restored soon. Also checked 6thMega's twitter account , but it hasn't been updated since March 2011. Wonder what happened to them, any one heard of anything about them?As I mentioned in this tutorial, 6thMega published the source code of their PuffPuff game to the public. But now that their site is down, people can't get the code any more, and I already received a...

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