The Night House Video Slot

New slot now is available! The work is going very slow now. Because we have a lot of other projects. But I am happy to announce we did new iPhone game The Night House.

Android apps with out programming

Now programming knowledge is required to create Android apps http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

JavaScript benchmarks

ArsTechnica publish results of JavaScript performance testing in most popular mobile phones platforms Android 2.2 and IOS4  http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/07/android-22-demolishes-ios4-in-javascript-benchmarks.ars

As you can read from this blog spot Android win this tournament.

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2010

The most waiting event for all apple fans started http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/

Objective-C is quite popular

Objective-C now is on 11 position on TIOBE community index.

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

Position Apr 2010	Position Apr 2009	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings Apr 2010	Delta Apr 2009	Status
1	2		C	18.058%	+2.59%	A
2	1		Java	18.051%	-1.29%	A
3	3		C++	9.707%	-1.03%	A
4	4		PHP	9.662%	-0.23%	A
5	5		(Visual) Basic	6.392%	-2.70%	A
6	7		C#	4.435%	+0.38%	A
7	6		Python	4.205%	-1.88%	A
8	9		Perl	3.553%	+0.09%	A
9	11		Delphi	2.715%	+0.44%	A
10	8		JavaScript	2.469%	-1.21%	A
11	42		Objective-C	2.288%	+2.15%	A
12	10		Ruby	2.221%	-0.35%	A
13	14		SAS	0.717%	-0.07%	A
14	12		PL/SQL	0.710%	-0.38%	A
15	-		Go	0.710%	+0.71%	A
16	15		Pascal	0.648%	-0.07%	B
17	17		ABAP	0.625%	-0.03%	B
18	20		MATLAB	0.616%	+0.13%	B
19	22		ActionScript	0.545%	+0.09%	B
20	19		Lua	0.521%	+0.03%	B

Cocos2d iPhone

IPhone developer community grow very fast. When I start interested in it I wondered how many information already exist in web. At the momement I have no expiriece in business application developing for iPhone. For me the game developing was a secrete. iPhone is greate platfrom to start doing this.

Surfing in web I found cocos2d  framework for iPhone. This is platform allow you create 2D graphical applications using OpenGL. Basicly all community create game son this platform. Not so fare appears visual books. One of positive moments coco2d-iphone has integration with physic engines. Actually this is all what you need start developing 2D games. 3D game development can take more time and need more experience. Not a secrete what iPhone platform has memory limitation and for game development you should always keep this in mind.

For last 6 month Cocos2d-iphone community increased. They are updated very often. Very fast added iPad support. New releases appears faster. Documentation always keep updated. Web-geeks create course for cocos2d-iphone. Rod Strougo writing cocos2d book. You can find some tips in cocos2d book homepage. Also take a look at his presentation.

Mobile Trends

Nice statistic about iPhone, iPad and Nexus One. Off cause it very hard to compare Apple production and one gadget for android platform. Apple announced a new version of its hot selling iPhone (point A). After half month interest to iPhone grow, because Apple not sell iPhone 3GS yet. Apple vice president of marketing Phil Schiller said the new iPhone 3GS would be available on June 19.

Google at a press conference at the Googleplex in Mountain View announced Nexus One (point B). Nexus One is a new Android phone that offers an inside designed be Google and an outside designed by HTC.

Apple showed off its latest invention,  the iPad in San Francisco (point D). That show high interest but after activity goes down.

BTW: point F - iPhone get multitasking (Google Trends set this feature to iPad).