Ribbit has been nominated for a handful of cool sessions for SXSW Interactive next year. This past year, we killed it with our session and went on to win the fabled Accelerator award. In 2010, we’re hoping to present one, several, or all of the following sessions. Help us by voting! Instream Interaction: Dynamic Server…
iPhone game Rock The Rim video posted
I’ve posted a little teaser and instructional video for my first iPhone game, “Rock The Rim”. Based on user feedback and watching friends play, I realize the game may be a little more Wii-like than most iPhone/iPod owners are used to. Once folks catch on how to play, it becomes as fun and addictive as…
Too many channels in The Static Age
Saw Green Day in concert recently. My first time seeing them. It was obvious that the average screaming, raving, mosh-pitting fan there was probably 10 years younger than me. And it’s obvious that Facebook and Myspace may not be as much of a ‘friend’ to the next generation as we all thought. In fact, I…
iPhone Sample: Calling methods in between classes
At some point along my iPhone learning curve, I had to recall some basic principles of object oriented programming — like calling a method from one class to another to pass data. For some reason, using MVC, I was trying to store data objects centrally, assuming all classes would have access to that data. This…
Why don’t we see more platform technology roadmaps?
Why don’t more technology platforms have published roadmaps? A product roadmap, in this case for a company’s platform offering, would be a detailed list of fixes and new features in upcoming releases/revisions of the platform. In its most comprehensive and impressive form, the roadmap will include future release dates, version numbers and even advanced documentation…
I am an iPhone developer
I am an Apple hold out no longer. After decades of resisting and even withstanding years of adoption peer pressure working/living in neighboring towns of Cupertino, I have jumped on the bandwagon. I bought my wife a gen2 iPod Touch, paid $99 to test apps, downloaded/installed the SDK, started playing with examples and have begun…
The most fun 25 cents can buy
For our grandparents, it was the penny arcade. For us, and the younger generation, it’s got to be more interactive. And not just interactive, but a way to politely offend a complete stranger. For just 25 cents, a quarter as it’s known in our United States currency, you can shoot a large volume of water…
Fixing Snake Eyes
After sitting in a box for 5 years (that’s 5 years too long), I finally unpacked my G.I. Joe collection to display all 75+ of them in my custom-built glass cabinet. Upon opening the box and sorting them out, I discovered about 12 of them were broken. Having a fixed bunch of them before, I…
Bug Vacuum
With 4 bugs, (3 of them live) in the bug vacuum, I thought I’d share a view inside the chamber. You can get your very ownBug Vacuum from Amazon.
33 things I learned from Danger Zone, the making of Top Gun
1.) Top Gun, the movie, was based on an article called “Top Guns” discovered by Producer Jerry Bruckheimer. 2.) Jeffrey Katzenberg originally approved the writing of the movie for the studio. 3.) The writers signed on mainly so they could have a chance to fly in a jet fighter plane. 4.) The writers visited the…