FREE IWB

I've set up a Square space site to store the IWB (Interactive Whiteboard common File Format) files I create.
All released under a CC licence.
http://freeiwb.squarespace.com/

iPhone SDK

I downloaded the Stanford Uni iPhone developer course a while back, and this evening had a gentle listen. I tried the first exercise, but Xcode kept crashing... because I hadn't upgraded to Snow Leopold version... a 2.5 Download for the new SDK.. I did such a doubletake.

And again, this time with feeling

I often tell my kids that the world was black and white till around 1984... which is a lie, it was sepia.

IWB again

Working on some more resources to show the capability of the Interactive Whiteboard Common File Format.

This one is a 12 bar blues tutorial, using the drag and drop features of the IWB to move tab notation, and Chords. The Object is hosted by "Honkin' Weasel Johnson", though he looks a little to young and funky at the minute.

The resource will go up on the iwbcff project site on sourceforge when it's done under a creative commons licence.

Whiteboard Chess

Finally finished coding the IWB common file format file... tricky thing is there are no tools available to write IWB yet, so it's a case of hand coding.. which should be very simple, as the code is basic svg with a couple of other elements chucked in. However the viewer app is a bit picky, and kept refusing the file... in the end I realised I'd got an underscore in a file name instead of a hyphen.

It was a strange feeling finally getting the file to work, and reminded me of the joy of proper coding, where you sit there pulling at your hair, and finally get that great sense of satisfaction when the code works.

I'll post the code up on the sourceforge site, so when we release the viewer there's another sample file to go with the rest.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/iwbcff/

Harder than it looks

Blinkin' flip.. it's been a while since I've done any coding, and even simple image positioning and referencing is making my brain hurt.

I coloured up the chessmen, and started putting them into the file, but realised I need to make them a little more uniform in size... and smaller if they are going to fit into the 800x600 viewbox area.. bum...

Another late night ahead...