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Hello all. It’s been a while since I’ve posted something here.

Lately I’ve been trying this tweet plugin to push my tweets to my blog, but it was time I wrote something bigger for a change.

So, I’ve been developing for the iPad for a week now. It’s been a good experience so far, and although I’m doing a simple app, I definitely enjoy more building for the iPad then for the smaller devices. Its so much easier to work with a larger screen.

This also made me come back to an old project I had for a web game. I finished part of the game engine today, and hopefully a couple more week(ends) and it will have the engine finished. Since the web is by now full of web based games, so I want to make something different with this one: you’ll still be able to play on a browser (and even for testing and balancing is probably easier), but afterwards the plan is to build an richer interface for the iPad reusing all the backend already developed and tested by the community.

It’s definitely a large endeavour just for one, but is about time I start finishing the projects that have been left under the desk for a long time now.

Well, now is bed time, because this will be a very very veeeery busy week :p. Cheers.

Today I have finished the first working version of a pong like game for the iPhone.

It’s still under development, but the basic is there: one ball, two paddles, and moving back and forward. Looks good for a couple hours work as one of the first big experiences

This week I finished my first couple animations in flash (action script 3). They consisted on tow different charts, a map and a message loop. There is also a xml communication (the parameters came from the xml file).

The learning curve was not bad, probably because I’m already used with the strictness of the language, as I am used to java.

It was a nice first experience, and hopefully I will keep doing more flash stuff.

This is a small post to inform of a friend’s website.

On his website / blog he focuses on showing is free and open source projects.

For the moment he has the very interesting particle simulator written in Java. Is worth to take a look at it.

Link

On today’s web Ajax has played an important role.

If you need something in Ajax, be shure to check this link before you start coding yourself.

You will find everything, from calendars to masked inputs, menus and several other things.