Year: 2012
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New ItemBrowser Released
I appreciate everyone who put up with me teasing ItemBrowser for most of the month of April. Yesterday, it launched.(Because WallaBee is an iPhone game, the site was optimized for use on that device. We’re planning to make the layout more responsive over the next coming weeks. It’ll work fine in modern browsers and on the iPad, but we can and will deliver a better experience for both soon.)
We love WallaBee. We want people to play the game. We want to help new players find the items they’re missing. We wanted tools that would help us find what we’re missing as well. I think ItemBrowser delivers.
We’re not done with the site. We know it can get better. We’re using it to learn and to push ourselves. It’s been amazingly fun to work on.
If you have a chance, I’d love it if you’d check it out.
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Campfire
It’s funny how what’s old is new again. I used to use lots of 37Signals’ products and – over time – gradually stopped. Now I’m coming back to them again.Inspired by a recent talk that Steve Smith gave at ConvergeSE, the team I work with has incorporated Campfire more heavily into their daily development lives. How are we hoping to use it? General chat, code reviews, asset and resource sharing, cat pictures… I’m hoping it improves communication between our developers and helps to decrease some of the email overload we all suffer from.
Most of our team is Mac-based and I’ve encouraged them to use Propane for Campfire or the Campfire iPhone app but it works fine in-browser as well.
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Back This Project
My friend Anton Peck is chasing a dream that you can play a role in. His dream is to create and publish a graphic novel. And now, thanks to Kickstarter, you can help make his dream a reality.
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An Invocation for Beginnings
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYlCVwxoL_g[/youtube]
I’m so glad that Ze Frank is back with A Show. Listening to him is delightfully therapeutic.
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ConvergeSE
This weekend I’ll be making the short trek up to Columbia, SC to attend my fourth Converge. (It’s easily one of my favorite conferences. I haven’t missed one yet.)This year I’ll be helping out by live-tweeting on Saturday via the @convergese account. In the event you won’t be there, follow @cdharrison/convergese-2012 or the hashtag: #convergese
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The New ItemBrowser is Almost Here
The new ItemBrowser is launching soon. Without David, the site would be a crappy, manually updated mess. The stuff he’s done to automate the site is nothing short of phenomenal in my book. When I first set out to make the site, I wanted to push myself to learn PHP better. I did accomplish that early on, but I also realized that getting to where I want to be with PHP was going to take far longer than this little project required.
Some stuff you can expect in this release:
- Geo-Location. Explore nearby spots. Find items nearby. Find specific spot types nearby.
- Full-screen web app capable. (Aside from an annoying refresh-on-load issue, the site works swimmingly well full-screen.)
- Large, beautiful artwork. We wanted the site to look gorgeous on retina displays.
- Optimized for mobile first. The site will work well in modern desktop browser, but the experience is custom-tailored for iPhone use. Alternate (responsive) layouts will come after launch.
Want to be one of the first to be notified when ItemBrowser v3 launches? Join our email list.
(I don’t have exact launch date, but signs are pointing towards the end of next week…)
PS. If you sign up for notifications, some of you may get early access to the site. Just sayin’… ;)
