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PlayMaker for iPhone is here!

PlayMaker for iPhone

The iPhone App I've been working on for some months has finally been released to Apple's App Store. It is a football game designed for armchair coaches who want to design their own plays. You can see it in iTunes by following this link.

Apple's iPhone 3Gs

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My last iPhone post I said video and voice were the only things missing from the iPhone. Well iPhone OS 3.0 and the 3Gs hardware are here and not only have those features been added, but a compass as well which perfectly rounds out the GPS function to allow driving assistance to truly work.

OpenID Again

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Well I've upgraded to a later version of Drupal and this version conveniently has a nice third party module to support OpenID. That's good because the provider I used originally seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. Now I can use my website as my OpenID and have the whole thing handled by VeriSign. Yea!

Apple's iPhone OS 2.0

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Well one year into the iPhone era. Millions have been sold and now the next generation is cheaper and better. The issues that enterprises were unhappy about seem to have evaporated in this new version of the phone. Software developers finally have an API that can be used to write more than a simple widget and a store to sell and download their applications into people's phones. GPS has been added. All that seems to be missing is a video camera function and voice dialing.

Skype users check out Speakables.

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If you can talk, or press a button you can also control Skype from your Mac or PC. If you use Skype on the Mac or on the PC you'll love some work forgotten software has done for it's friends over at Speakables.

Should Developers be Accountable For Flaws?

Howard Schmidt, former White House cybersecurity advisor is quoted in an article suggesting just this. Like many politicians his comprehension of the real issues borders on ignorance.

When Software Development Isn't Agile

By now you've probably heard about it. Agile Software Development is the rage. It is said to bring to software development benefits that are usually attributed to Just In Time inventory management. It is a development strategy that deals with change easily and produces results. The Agile Manifesto and its Principles lay the groundwork.