Alex Curelea’s Dev Log

I’m far from a good sysadmin. I don’t have the patience to RTFM, I never remember syntax, and I usually don’t have the discipline to document what I do, meaning any sysadmin work usually ends up a frustrating sequence of trial and error.
I’m moving all my stuff from Slicehost to Linode, which I’ve put [...]

It’s really only a coincidence that my last two posts are about the PlayBook - I haven’t worked with it that much, although it actually is a great little tablet.
Today I pushed out the LyricFind app for the Playbook, and so far so good! Joe Styer of PlayBookDaily.com was kind enough to post a [...]

Just got back from a pretty good presentation for Mobile Monday Toronto by RIM’s Tyler Lessard. The first half of the presentation was about RIM and BlackBerry phones, the second was a demo of the PlayBook. The Q&A session was much longer than it usually is at these events, and quite enjoyable.
I jotted [...]

I released my first iPhone game, Whack-a-Kitty, on Dec. 20, almost 3 weeks ago. People have been asking how it went, so here are some numbers and first impressions.
First, if you missed it the first time, here’s a neat timelapse video of the game being made:

And a shameless plug for a friend: if [...]

It feels like I’ve been working on this game forever, but it’s actually only been 3 months - a lot of it evenings and weekends. The game itself has been done for a while, but it’s been stuck in the approval queue for about 3 weeks. I’ve also been struggling with making [...]

This is impressive, to say the least. A Canadian hacker has managed to get Android running on the iPhone. The important stuff seems to work - wifi, the browser, playing music, SMS, making calls… oh, and it dual-boots. Wow.
Check out the video, or download the code from the original post.

While trying to figure out how to get access to paid apps on the Android Market in Canada (come on, Google… you know you want to, the Canadian dollar is strong nowadays), I stumbled on a blog series listing possible Android business models. There is probably nothing revolutionary, but the ideas are short, sweet, [...]

“I think the iPad is a bad name choice. How are people in Boston supposed to differentiate between it and the iPod?” — amusing Reddit comment. Looks like Reddit is far from the only place making the joke:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=ipad+boston
And, of course, the infinitely more predictable iTampon:

Note that iTampon is trending on Twitter, while iPad is [...]

Mobile Orchard has a great tutorial on how to distribute iPhone apps to other developers without jumping through the ad-hoc hoops. I haven’t tried it yet, but it’s good to know.
http://www.mobileorchard.com/developer-to-developer-iphone-app-distribution-without-ad-hoc-provisioning/