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Alex Beals
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Well, at long last, What's Line is done! Or at least as done as any app can be.
So I had a rough prototype of the game set up, but there were a few problems: the game was pretty laggy, the whole thing happened in DOM, and opening the game on multiple PC's would desync the fish's location. Additionally, it was difficult to tell which fish was which.
A brief writeup on my foray into NodeJS, Socket.IO, and more with Sardines!
Just a quick progress update on What's Line. It's pretty much finished! All of the functionality I had originally planned out, (minus the Facebook login and some small details on keeping track of score) are implemented!
One of my best friends siblings was in a poll competition on a popular blog. He was doing okay, but he wasn't close to the lead. I thought I'd see if it was possible to boost his numbers a bit.
About a week ago, I noticed that someone had posted on the subreddit /r/Jailbreak asking for a tweak. What it did was make it so when you selected text, and clicked shift, it would toggle the text through UPPERCASE, lowercase, and the original text. I thought I could make it, and within a few days it was working...
I have a jailbroken iPhone, and I wanted to add an Activator Event for a wrong passcode, so that entering '0000' would send a text message. I looked through a bunch of tweaks without any success, so I decided to make it myself. I jumped into learning the basics of Objective C, and through the iPhoneDevWiki and open...
Finally started working on the iOS version. It took me a while to track down a Mac I could use (yay 2009 MacBook Pro!), and even longer to update it from Snow Leopard all the way up to OS X Yosemite for the most recent version of Xcode. I have the initial login screen working, with the backend all set up. Next step...
A developer license for Apple costs $100. Now, if you know that you wish to launch an app, that's pretty cheap to get access to all of the great resources and ability to push as many apps as you want onto the App Store. However, while you're still learning to program in Swift, this can be a large barrier to entry....
A good way to reorganize the chaos that is Banner is to sort all of the links into the main purposes. There are a few main reasons that people go onto Banner:
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