I'll try to summarize all the work that brought me the application The developer Mussage iPhone in a week . If you do not know what is Mussage, you can read this post !.

I was doing the steps and tools (mostly free) that I was using.

Use Case Diagram

First of all and based on the idea, I made ​​a use case diagram with yuml.me

Mockup

Then put together a screen navigation scheme with Balsamiq Mockup :

DER

It's time to make a layout of the tables that will have the database! For this we use the designer MySqlWorkBench

Xcode

It is time to program in Objective C ...

Also used the following Frameworks, libraries and tools for IOS:

• FMDB SQLite
• JSONKit for and receiving Json parsing the Server
• MD5 Hash for sending to the server and authenticate the login
• Internationalization of Strings and Xib in English and Spanish.
• Views QuartzCore for animation
• MediaPlayer for playing songs on iPod
• MessageUI to send mails within the app

Server Side (PHP)

Graphic Design

Web Application for HTML5

Publish in the AppStore

Ready!

Dead Island ( Techland ) focuses on an island where for some reason the vast majority of people suffering from "Zombina" I do not want to have more, because the motive is not to tell the story or to spoil dies at the end! nah you think! You can just have the idea. While there is nothing new to the subject, is quite good-looking and with the gameplay does a very good game, or put another way, is a completely valid justification for quench our thirst for blood! a violent game like any zombies.

Warning: The following images contain excessive violence, if you're a minor, please do not stop here, of course thank you very much!

The first thing I will mention and they will see in the pictures and videos, is the graphic quality is really impressive. The atmosphere and climate that does is tremendous, thanks to the many details that enrich and may easily go unnoticed. Reminds me of the series "Resident Evil", but obviously this 3D real-time post!

Screens in HD:

Before playing a nylon makes the desktop to not stain anything, say, by the amount of blood going to distill the monitor!

Take this video for you showing the gameplay which titrate "Walking fiorito" "Run forest run!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioeWbxGbS7U

On the gameplay is a FPS (First Person Shooter) classic, something interesting is that the maps are huge and you have some places available on vehicles to move more easily map. You have also a kind of "teleportation" between centers of the maps.

Under my personal opinion I would say has the best of many games, is an ATM / Fallout 3 / MAFIA even some Crysis and of course Left 4 Dead (L4D) with RPG elements.

Points:

Graphic quality

This pretty well balanced. If you do all the side missions is endless, yet accomplished these missions be very entertaining, by the variety of the same and also the burden of responsibility, not every day you wake up as a sort of involuntary combat leader.

The sound is not far behind, the 3D effect can be seen very well, you learn very quickly if you are near a thief zombie and you hear from where even if you did you put it back are screaming or whatever they do.

The actions of the characters and their gestures are also very good.

The most interesting game is the multiplayer co-op missions are basically the same, but you can make up to 4 friends , Among other ways of course.

Requirements:

Minimum:

· Operating system: Windows XP
· Processor: 2.66 GHz Core2Duo
· Memory RAM: 1 GB
· Graphics Card: ATI 2600XT 512MB VRAM (GeForce 8600GT)
· DirectX: DirectX 9.0c
· Space Hard Drive: 7 GB

· Operating system: Windows 7
· Processor: 2.66 GHz Core2Duo
· Memory RAM: 4 GB
· Graphics Card: GeForce 9600 (1GB)
· DirectX: DirectX 9.0c
· Space Hard Drive: 7 GB

My machine is an Intel i5 750 (2.66), 8 GB Ram, Video: Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr II (1GB ram), on a monitor is giving me a1920x1200 DE24 100 to 150 fps. Yet in FULL (barbarian walks!)

By killing PODES point to body parts and these are the suffering of your pains, Ball beams it's amazing how well made this effect. The zombies' heads "are many and kills everyone in a particular way, nearly all the fire reaches, but you always have a Molotov on hand, so you have to get close to some as the giants and start with the arms or legs before the head (to mate with the big bottles, or explosions).

I player compulsive other types of games, most military fps (battlefield slime ), But the truth is that this caught me and far more than "left 4 dead," I decided to try it ... and end up doing a review!

As I said before, has components of role, as skills and negotiations to acquire or combine things according to the level you have. You've got 4 characters to choose from which have different profiles (And if not that?) if you like throwing shots or if you like crush or impact weapons simply cut heads you have your character, or you got something for everyone visteh!

YOU CAN crudely combine items and upgrade your weapons, for example a tape with a deodorant, a beautiful gun grenade perfume?? . Batteries and cables in a machete, a machete arm power!

This post is dedicated to friends of whom I hope Zombilaneros a comment HDPS

ScreenShots:

This is the trailer:

Although I must say I did not like the fact of using a child, it is because I am a father?

Finally, a tip: Do not kill everything that crosses is not part of the mission and get away again at spawn.

Go or no go?

Doubt was with the service or not the event. I read a blog of entrepreneurs: Startup Weekend Madrid a meeting of entrepreneurs from various fields, technology, design, marketing, business and the goal of developing an idea from Friday June 3 in the afternoon, Saturday and Sunday in a marathon work to appear before a jury of 4 inverters on Sunday evening.

I signed, I took the ticket Santiago - Madrid, book a hotel near the metro in the Gran Via and packed my things. On the flight I wondered whether or not to submit an idea. It is somewhat difficult: first "deliver" your idea to an audience unfamiliar second trial with the possibility of being devalued, third, the challenge given to understand and convey the idea in just 1 minute.

Have an idea

For the girls event organized grouping They 2.0 (which is the flag to encourage and support women who dare to undertake) had emailed us with some very interesting slides about how to give your Elevator Pitch of 1 minute: present, pose a problem and your solution that makes highlighting the innovative and original. I wrote my idea and then I read taking my time with the iPhone stopwatch. Conclusion: impossible to say everything in 1 minute!. So things had to be cut and phrases, adjectives ... and ... best to write again.

Arrived that Friday afternoon and the meeting was interesting, I exchanged words with several participants, the usual questions of "you're doing?", "You will present idea?", "Is the first time you come to an event like this? ". Madrid OnRails space was 100%, we were 90 entrepreneurs and soon we blow up the wifi router!. 33 we presented ideas, I was number 26 and while watching the parade of 60 seconds of my ancestors I became more and more nervous.

He opened fire: "My name is Juan Ignacio and I come to propose to create the toy of the future ..."

I left my 60 seconds of pure adrenaline, the heart was beating and beating me. The proposals were then voted and only a few survive to the next stage, we became 17 and had to settle for multidisciplinary teams to tackle the rest of the weekend. I almost immediately four members: Mathew American designer, game designer Antonio, Juan Diego creative marketer and Jimmy a manufacturing expert and social relationships. Later we join Clara, mother and web designer.

Undertake Saturday and Sunday

What I can say? For me it was clear that if these five people were on my team and support my idea was they were crazier than me. But what a nice time! It's amazing to see other people get involved in your project and work involved and really believe in what they are doing. During Saturday and Sunday work hard, but we allow outputs, lectures and many jokes. Work having fun, surrounded by dolls, toys, with aluminum foil on their heads to try to improve the wifi signal and know a little more between us. Do not forget that just hours before we were totally unknown.

Thus was born PincheToys , a toy hybrid between real and virtual children. A "multi-world toy." We liked the idea, but as much as we liked also thought it was the wildest of the 10 that were to present this Sunday 19hs before the investors .

It was 18.30hs and ended our Powerpoint. Now to try!? No. There was no time and also as I said Jimmy, "which comes out naturally." I like crazy ... I thought, "this will be a disaster."

Go out there

Presentations began and we were number 6. The other very interesting projects, good proposals, but when they reached the returns of investors saw how quickly detect weaknesses and weak spots.

It was our turn, I had taken a shot of whiskey before going out there but only found Coca Light.

We start our presentation and miraculously was out, flowed ... it was giving an informal talk as explanatory and touches of humor. Applause. Our return was initiated by Dove Hair (the MIT!) Who told us that although he had seen other usb dolls on the market liked the creativity in the proposal and also be useful both in the computer game as in real life. We had a very positive response! of course we said we would have to handle well the Logistic and distribution to achieve our company stores.

I was very happy with everything, how it came, we put together a good team, great work we had done. FIN, was done for me. Weekend over, very happy, it was worth all the effort.

And then the impossible happened: the jury selected us as the Best Project .

I IN CRE BLE.

A weekend of madness.

It refers to individuals born in late 1980 that always lived with PCs and the Internet, easily adopted d / natural the tenología

(And if you have more time you can check the Wikipedia entry in English)

The mouse came with the popularity of the PC and was one of the reasons for any "simple individual" can handle easily the computer back in 1995. Before he had to make things as difficult as typing "cd wordpress" on the keyboard to access a directory. But now you could double click on a folder.

This great revolution which in turn caused the peripheral (and just as my parents are about to understand the diferncia between a right click and left click) is about to disappear to be replaced by the multitouch.

While Apple always stood out to offer its users friendly interfaces (such as when he created the one-button mouse) managed to bring their screens millions of users with unprecedented multi-touchscreen mobile phone: the iPhone.

The Touchscreen already existed

It transcends memory, many years before the release of the iPhone in 2007 and existed touch screens and were recognized product Palm. The PDA never succeeded. Perhaps because they were imitating the click of a mouse but with a plastic tipped pen that put pressure on the screen (the stylus). And like a cursor, you are only in one place at once.

I remember seeing pictures of the launch of the iPhone on the internet and think "but who wants to touch the screen with your hands?". I was crazy. Is that for decades we have been accustomed to pushing buttons (like Desmond on Lost: "Push the button!"). Cell phones were all with numeric keypad and some offered full QWERTY keyboards (and tiny useless).

So ... how to break the old paradigm of push buttons to dial a phone number? At that time there was a Palm touchscreen model mobile phone which was also and had very few sales. What is the difference besides the iPhone was much more fashion?

The difference is the Multitouch. And the technology that brought.

Without going into too much detail I'll try to explain the difference between multitouch system introduced by Apple with its iPhone and the touchscreen system "classic" (which are more like a click). The multitouch screen is a continuous flow of electricity over the entire visual area where the finger is stopped posing. And that disruption is reflected in the device as a "touch". It has the ability to interrupt that flow curtain simultaneously (using multiple fingers at once) getting the multitouch. No need to put pressure on the screen. REPEAT: no need to put pressure on the screen!. This new system dispensed with the use of plastic pencils or other items. With the fingers of the hand, so easy.

We must say q ue iPhone with multitouch was accompanied by an operating system for you. The best example to adopt this technology is to manipulate photos with your hands. When you open a photo and you zoom with two fingers is a completely natural experience. You do not have to click a magnifying glass, or a "plus" or type "200%". You move your thumb and forefinger. It's simple intuitive is incredible. NEXT Skip to the photo by dragging your finger or zoom back to the original with a "double tap" (two consecutive touch). Same for manipulating maps, draw or play Field Runner.

Once you start using the multitouch and no turning back. You do not want to use more of the mouse. I find this ridiculous, outdated past. Why move a plastic gizmo when I could touch the screen to select what you want?.

Goodbye to the mouse, throw it away.

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For a full explanation of the multitouch system, visit this link (in English)

Battlefield 2

Two or more years ago, I was addicted player battlefield 1942 and 2, I joined a clan (Fenix) with which we were "champions" of Argentina in a tournament hosted by a server and local community, and thanks to this we made ​​a TV interview on cable TV in rock & pop. At that time I began to see people making videos with this game (famous " mine "if any), to me personally I love to do videos / shorts / films, precise and pleasantly remember the year .. 90 ... 91 or 92 .., ok .. not so accurate where Disney launched a game called Stunde Island , one of the first 3D games in the golden era of DOS (at that time there was nothing in 3D and obviously this was all 3D primitive, no textures, no shadows, or anything, just lowpoly 3d objects but it did, and this stimulated a lot of creativity), the game was basically it was planes and shoot them and expose them to perform stunts in a movie theater all within the same game. As an example of a plane landing serious film on a moving train, this was the intro:

The game had the option to post (which I learned a lot and I guess that is why my love for this area) and also had option of making your own videos with any argument, just great for that time, today this " the movie " which is similar in concept but not the same.

Returning battlefield, a few games have options to save to video but battlefield has an option to save the game, this means that stores the position and actions of all (technically speaking coordinates and states) and can play the game from any angle, this gives tremendous freedom to do this kind of things do to check this one video called "The francommander" a sniper (sniper) and Commander (Commander) all in one, basically playing a normal game as he put the game (offline mode or against the machine) and then with a little work in post production becomes:

All in one shot if there would have planned so that the scene has been so, for example little guy who want to escape the artillery and just drops them in the head one of the missiles, incredible.

(Also for others to do similar things I wrote a mini tutorial )

As much I liked doing this, I decided to go further, and make a real short!

I wrote the story, divided into scenes, edit the map adapting to the requirements of each scene, I put such aircraft to a map that does not have, lots of tanks and other; Once I had digested all ready started the "shooting "search first extras and people who want to help me with the post which is not something minor, once they were available extras began filming on a server itself when the scene required us to be few and then a dedicated server community gave me netplay for when we were many.

To organize all was very helpful a spreadsheet to google and also to share the story as other data.

We shoot all scenes required, just be missing some complement but in general terms would all be filmed and video, on my drive all the oil is weighing 120 GIGAS! (And sleeping ...)

What remains is to finish post-production, dubbing, audio and music (feat), so even lacks enough is something that will undoubtedly end off at some point, the final video doubt 20 ', I wanted it to be less, but ...: S

The project is 53%, I spent 280 hours, assembling, developing and because they do not learn.

Here are some test videos that I was doing:

Intro:

Actors rebels

Draft 1: matrix effect

Retrying a part of the flight, it looks cute

Final Draft: coordinated attack

And delicious take screenshots of the scenes:

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I thank many people who made this possible, and I thank you with the finished video, hopefully find time to finish it.

Total (with love), is a powerful file manager, in this post I want to briefly tell a little story before have the benefits of the program.

Total Commander - screenshot

In the days of DOS, where everything had to type it ALL today that tipean, make it more for fun or for not needing a graphical interface, otherwise the mouse and knowing where you "can" do much the same.

File management was very routine, copy / move back and forth, delete, create directories, etc., to copy or move something, the ordinary was going through the origin and destination point, then go to the destination and continue what was doing. However, in that golden age (from 80) was born on soft that significantly improve the work of this type, its name: " Norton Commander "(or better known as NC, by the name of the executable" nc.exe "), which to vary as in the entire history of computing / informatics happened was an improved copy of other, though of several this was the best position as they had many more features than the rest.

The main concept which was based on having two windows showing different directories in each of them and providing basic operations such as copy of a "side" to another (window) and something you had in particular was the use of function keys (Fs: F1, F2, F *), which certainly at that time my keys were brand-new

Norton Commander (NC)

I get windows 95 (also Windows 3 .*) and where to "everything" was required or mouse context menu! .. what is that to copy and paste?, really try to adapt but it was easy for me was a big waste of time to actually manage the files with the mouse and copy and paste, not to mention the dizziness that had sailed among many windows , Then look for alternatives, Winfile Windows was basically was a double file browser, improved one, but it was basically the same. I decided to use NC (which was only for DOS) within Windows, and so happily lived for a while (had several limitations, but ... it was something)

Winfile on Windows 3 .*

On a warm afternoon of November 97, sitting under the shade of the roof of the house ... I met the commander version 3.02 of the total, only three minutes late in adopting and maintaining the functionality of the old NC, but all in and windows From that moment I still use it today. Do not even migrated to Linux definitely not have the total commander! ... Not clear games Really I can not live without ... (ummm I never imagined so express and publicly!) Even before I install the drivers every time you install windows! (My machine or others )

So much for history class today, next post, the total in itself, with its features and much more!

What did you use before? or something similar? (Do not get angry if you want to say something!)

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The first news I had of Popego , said that Santiago Siri had reached Argentina locate a site in the top 50 in the world in the prestigious contest TechCrunch . I was surprised, I was overjoyed to hear about how good it was positioning a fellow website globally.

What is it? How did he do? How much does it cover? Is it business? Were the first questions I did.

For starters, the site has a name that describes it from head to toe: Ego Pop.
In this new (old?) Social network era, the fluid communication between people, contacts, references, the navigator is full of sites and services to feed his ego. His "I". Your photos, videos, stories, comments, opinions and votes. The brainchild of the nuclear site is the various services that are subscribed to the egocentric navigator and concentrate them in one Autoblog.

But that is safe? and my privacy?

Yes yes yes ... it is certain, stay quiet lady. Two things about privacy and that there is , especially in teenagers and new internet-social tribes seeking emerging popularity is in the exhibition and second, the site's brother Liniers public only accesses user profiles, without asking for username and password for other services.
If you have a Flickr or Picasa album (or both!) I know you can set the scope of privacy desired that the album is public or restricted to persons you designate. If the photos are public, then you can you say to Popego "Hey Popego!, Learn more about my profile on my Public Album Mar del Plata".
Similarly, we can tell that you review our services Popego videos from YouTube, Blog, Reader, Delicious, Twitter and many other services (Facebook coming soon).

And that's not all.

With all the ball Data tags of keywords, image and multimedia material the site of the orange smiley face is not satisfied. He wants more. And it goes for more.
Personally I found the idea to buenisima there to the autoblog with my items for various services concentrated in one place.
But it seems that the boy of the lens was given to advance and improve the idea. Maybe that's the break to get to be one of the 50 best websites of 2008 .

Popego takes our "likes" (taste), processed our profile and provides us with new data. Of course, when we subscribe our services in turn was saying "Hey Popego, I like reading science fiction, my language is Spanish, my tags are Computer Science and Art, I read news about movies." Then he is responsible for reviewing and stir in the network to find feeds, news, images and videos that are similar to our tastes.

Popego becomes a personal assistant, who tries to understand, how we are, what we like, what does not and makes juggling for King, sorry, I meant for the surfer.

For about 5 months or so we are working on a web project, being our first "big" project for the web (many that will come later).

What is it about this project?
Much can not count (to within a few days we launch the beta), but what if we can anticipate is that this is a great application for facebook (sisi large compared with the typical "aplicacioncitas" of feisbuk and that is our trick, get some quality).

We believe that you will have a large audience this application, because it's something we and our friends (not so computer) and we'd love was, and everything we read every day that gives us a good outlook for this type of application .

With this post we also wanted to show some photos of the 5 months you spent a lot of overtime work (over 700) for all development.

Technologies used: Mysql + Php + Muchoajax

Map of the idea

Nacho House at 4:44 am on a Friday ... that if be nerd passion!

At home, when we walked the integration and the ***** *****

Continuing with the post above (I recommend reading it before continuing), let's talk about "Google Trends for Websites" With this tool we can see and compare traffic between sites.

Basically a cross between Google Trends and Alexa is actually in direct competition with Alexa (and other less known www.compete.com , like forgetting that domain! ).

We find sites through its domain, and see its evolution in time of visits.

This is a powerful tool to see our own evolution in entrepreneurship, or what is better, the evolution of competition

Let's take a practical example with:

"Clarin.com, taringa.net, lanacion.com.ar, minutouno.com, ole.com.ar"

Continue reading "What the hell is Google Trends for Websites? '"