Lemonz Dream Blog » Potion Factory http://www.lemonzdream.com/blog ... Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:48:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Iron Coder #0 http://www.lemonzdream.com/blog/2006/03/05/iron-coder-0/ http://www.lemonzdream.com/blog/2006/03/05/iron-coder-0/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:24:56 +0000 Jin Kim http://www.potionfactory.com/blog/2006/03/05/iron-coder-0/ Iron Chef

In the spirit of the show Iron Chef, some mac developers have joined together for the first ever Iron Coder contest. Developers are given 24 hours to come up with something cool given an API and a theme. The API for the first contest was Accessibility and the theme was Mardi Gras.

Here are our entries (with source code!):

Jump to Iron Coder

UPDATE: You can get all of the entries here.

UPDATE 2: Lucas Eckels got the honor of being the first ever Iron Coder with his entry Symphony. Congratulations Lucas. On a completely separate note, Steve Harris of Reinvented Software and Feeder fame has created a mash-up of our submissions titled GrassyKnoll. You can now shoot beads at passing windows. Grab the mash-up here for some good laughs!

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We got to see a glimpse of how the rock stars of this industry such as Plasq, Panic, Delicious Monster, and Rogue Amoeba handle themselves at an event such as this.

As a developer who is affected by the announcements at the show, it was nice to get a chance to have a chat with the guys at Karelia Software at the macsb dinner hosted by Niall Kennedy. They have an excellent web page creation software that just came out called Sandvox. It is far superior to the new iWeb in iLife ‘06. It should give the RapidWeaver folks at Realmac Software a healthy dose of competition.

The Stevenote was very interesting. I’m a little annoyed that the Intel iMacs are shipping the same day instead of say in two weeks or a month to give us time to prepare. The most exciting news for us was GarageBand. It looks like the most awesome podcasting software ever. It had lots of features that we dreamed of implemending in Podcast Maker, but just knew was going to be really hard or next to impossible.

The Intel laptop news is a very welcome change. The new name makes me wonder if the iBooks are going to be renamed to MacBooks because why else would they change the PowerBook to MacBook Pro? Apple is famous for being minimal in everything that they do and that “Pro” to me is painfully ugly. And the PowerMac? I suppose it will be renamed Mac Pro. Repeat with me 10 times! Mac Pro, Mac Pro… I feel a bit better now.

I totally dig the new commercial they put out by the way. That smile on the woman’s face after she does whatever she’s doing with the silicon wafer is priceless. I’m guessing that it’s done by the folks at Chiat Day and I think they deserve a round of applause.

One thing that I wish I had seen more of at the expo are small developers. There are just so many gems for the Mac that I wish there were a space to showcase them. It costs far too much resources to do it at the Macworld Expo. With this frame of mind, it was very sickening to see the usual tradeshow spam companies totally unrelated to the Mac selling massage services and such at Macworld. Somebody should take this idea and run with it. Perhaps an online expo? Is there such a thing? Or at least do it in a cheap place like Ontario, California like the Portable Media and Podcast Expo.

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Can you speak 4+ languages? StuFF mc does. He has a couple of popular podcasts in French and German and now he’s launching Pom Pom Pom Pom, EN External Link, a Mac centric podcast for the English speaking audience. I’m featured there as a guest for the first episode. Listening to it I realize that I talk like a valley girl. Argh! There is also a contest for some Elgato eyetv stuff there. Check it out, yo.

Listen in iTunes

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We have been working hard to bring the next version of Podcast Maker. .Mac support will make it really easy to podcast.

Soda Cans

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Top 10 downloads

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Thank you.
Dank u.
ありがとう. Gracias.
Danke.
Mahalo.
Danke schön. Merci beaucoup.

Thank you everybody for all the kind words and support. It has made all the hard work well worth it.

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