kwellman

I made a game! I guess that’s not very exciting in itself, but it took me many months, from conception to publication, and it was a lot of hard work (way more than I expected). It was written in C++ using cocos2d-x.

Wordigami is a fun and original word game that challenges you to rearrange letter tiles into a grid that spells a common word along every row and column. Someone described it to me as being like a word game that you play like Game of Fifteen.

Any feedback appreciated. Thanks for checking it out!

Direct links:

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordigami/id1082173497?mt=8

Android: http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yargies.wor...

SEEKING WORK

Remote or Montreal

I'm a full-stack developer. I specialize in Android, python, and AWS.

-- Built and designed The Unfollow App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unfollowap...). Backend was done in python/flask.

-- Drag To Shirt (http://dragtoshirt.appspot.com/)

-- Face It Shirt (http://www.faceitshirt.com/) -- Twtspire (http://www.twtspire.com/)

Looking for short-term projects. Available immediately.

Technologies: Java, Android SDK, Python, MySQL, AWS, Ansible

http://www.interstellr.com/ | email address in profile

I did something very similar to this a while back[1]. I also wrote a blog post about it with code here http://blog.interstellr.com/post/22534653144/mining-twitter-...

[1] http://www.twtspire.com/

I did something similar to this when developing my backbone.js + phonegap + jquery android app (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.celebnoise).

Edit: I didn't post this to just promote my app. I noticed that there's no android market link on the blog post and thought some people might like to try out a backbone.js app without having to build it. I know it's not the same, but I do think it shows how responsive an html5 mobile app can be.

A good set of resources. Thanks.

Here's a few more that I've found useful:

http://iconfinder.com (or the similar http://findicons.com)

http://365psd.com (free photoshop file everyday)

http://www.colourlovers.com/ (great for picking a color scheme)

http://graphicriver.net (really cheap graphics)

http://themeforest.net (themes)

SEEKING WORK - Montreal, remote

HTML5 development including backbone.js and knockout.js. Back-end development with python, mongodb, mysql, google app engine, flask, and django.

I've built an HTML5 Android app available in the marketplace (http://celebnoise.com/).

Portfolio: http://kenjiwellman.appspot.com

Github: https://github.com/kwellman

See my profile for my email address.

I just watched this video (http://gigaom.com/2011/09/27/facebook-mobilize-2011/) where Facebook's head of mobile product talks (a tiny bit) about using HTML5 in their mobile products instead of all native development to keep pace with launches on the Facebook desktop site.

Check out the video at ~16 minute mark.

Can anybody clarify the last line of the blog article [1]? The author makes it sound like storing data using $.data() is an async operation. The API docs make no mention of this. In some quick tests using Chrome, I was always able to immediately retrieve the value that was stored.

I'm actually planning on using this method, so I'd really like to know.

[1] "Furthermore, storing data takes a certain amount of time, so you might get a null exception if you are planning on retrieving it right after storage. There are currently no plans to add a callback to the jQuery data that I’m aware of."

Edit: $.data() seems to be async, but $(el).data() is not. At least that's what I found. Maybe that explains the difference in speeds.

That page has the most elaborate and geeky captcha I've ever seen. It's also not very practical considering that something like 7 percent of men have some degree of color blindness. I can barely tell the difference between 3 and 5 on that scale.

Ok. I just implemented a quick and dirty voting mechanism that'll due for now.

It uses the reddit algorithm for calculating how "hot" a story is.

That was fun!

I wish I had the design chops to create a graphic of that quality...

I got it from http://iconfinder.com/. You can find lots of great graphics there for free (don't forget to check the licenses).

If you're a python or java programmer you could use Google App Engine. It seems ideal for small projects.

I know breakupnotifier.com was hosted on GAE.

Twtspire uses the twitter search api to find tweets with key phrases like "I wish there was a site that..."

Hopefully it'll help give an idea of some of the things that people actually want, and inspire a weekend project or two.

I would love to hear some feedback.

Hmmmm... the url seems to be working.

It's a shame. I've yet to see spam on HN, but this looks like spam. Wish I could downvote it.