Cisco Systems relocated us to San José, California (Silicon Valley) in November of 2005. We're lovin' it here! We have a spare bedroom for any friends/family that want to come & visit.
Square Master iPhone Game
I just bought my first Mac computer in August 2008, and being a real nerd I immediately downloaded Xcode for it (Apple's IDE) and started learning Objective-C. I ported my popular Square Master game to the iPhone platform. I had originally written it in C# for Microsoft's .NET Compact Framework (for Windows Mobile smartphones). I updated the graphics & animations, and decided to put it up for sale on the AppStore. It went live on September 24th, and in the first month it was downloaded about 26,000 times! Unfortunately for me, most of these downloads were of the free version. In retrospect, I think I was too generous with the free version's features. Oh well.
All-in-all,
I'm very impressed with Apple. They make it pretty easy for folks to
publish and manage their apps, set up contracts, etc. Far better than
my experiences with Handango and others.
I now have a social network for the game at http://SquareMasters.com, that hosts users' high-scores, and even an interactive map of where it's being played around the world. My download reports suggest that it's very popular in Russia, but I wonder if these users will join my network. We'll see.
Time Travel
I gave a few technical talks and demo sessions at EclipseCON in Santa Clara, California, about my work on temporal debugging in embedded space.
Here's the video of my Time Travel lightning talk:
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