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Hangman Progress Update

James — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:29:08 +0000

Today has been an interesting day. I received my first monthly report of how my apps on the App Store are doing. Would you believe that within the US, the EU and the UK alone Hangman has been downloaded over 560,000 times!? It’s true according to Apple’s stats! Not only that, but Hangman managed to stay at the number 1 spot on the Top Free Apps list in the UK and US App Stores. That’s just phenomenal news to me. And I have you guys to thank! I wouldn’t have been able to do it without you.

Also, thank you everyone who has e-mailed me or left a review of Hangman on the App Store to tell me that you enjoyed it, or to point out a bug/error. The feedback has been tremendously helpful.
I’ve been working on the next update for Hangman and I’m pleased to say that it’s going well. 2-Player mode is well underway, and I’ve added a bit of a quirk when you get hanged:

Also if anyone has any comprehensive wordlists they think would be good for Hangman, please, do send them to me. I’ll credit you if you’d like that.
I apologise for the current set of words. One reviewer described them as “things around the programmer, IT jargon and the contents of his sandwich”. That description wouldn’t be entirely untruthful… heh. When I began Hangman, I just needed a set of words to work with, and so i just started typing into a text file and played a sort of word-association game with myself and ended up with about 230 words that have no real structure.
So to combat that, the wordlists will be revamped and will be categorised in the next release. The category title will also give you a slight hint as to what you’re trying to guess.

Again, thanks for all the support and attention, it has made my month!

Writenum

James — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:06:33 +0000

I just published a page on the writenum program I wrote for a job application.

The page contains a link to download the program and the source, so you can check it out and play with the code and such.

The job application included a task with the brief to write a program that took a number and printed out the textual representation of that number, eg. 1234 = One thousand, two hundred and thiry-four.

This was my implementation. I hope it’s handy to someone.

Hangman

James — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:48:49 +0000

Just posted up the latest application I’ve written. Just a quick hangman game written on the spur of the moment. Source and download are available on the Hangman page.

New Additions

James — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:05:05 +0000

I’ve added up new pages for Timeout and IMDummy. Two pieces of software that were written as tests/simulations in order to help me learn in Cocoa. Go check them out.

I’ve also decided to change the theme for the site. It’s basically just the K2 WordPress theme with a random header image. The images used in the header are from Interface Lift.

SVN Migrated

James — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:58:18 +0000

So I’ve now manged to get the Willish Translator uploaded and displayed, and I’ve also finished migrating the SVN repository over from jasarien.com.

That’s it for now, I’m going to sleep. I will upload and present a couple more apps after I sleep.

Moved Some Stuff

James — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:12:13 +0000

Just finished moving (and re-editing) the pages for some of the apps that I want to bring here. Keep an eye out for a few more.

The sources will be available as soon as I migrate the SVN repository to the new URL.

Things are beginning to look good