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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-06Posted on 06. Mar, 2010 by Wim Haanstra. |
- Wallpaper 3 the full edition is approved! Lite edition is again in review! Woohoo #wallpaper #
- New project on the wat, its really awesome and helps a lot of developers like me… #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-27Posted on 27. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra. |
- Ok I just submitted the free version of Wallpaper. Hope ppl will like it… #
- Lunchbreak, not hungry, i wish the weekend starts soon…. #
- OMG, why do they do this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXN9Z4Whksk&feature=related #
- Watching some internet movies… #
- Stress-testing WallPaper server… who says Linq to SQL cant handle big loads?
30.000 concurrent threads. # - Sometimes you make agreements, which you dont need on paper.. WRONG! #
- And then… you quit your job. #
- Working again, if I only knew how to fix this small bug I found.. #
- Pfff, way to late to bed yesterday. Getting up early isnt that much fun! #needmoresleep #
- Working on a nice information page for my website. A lot of work
# - Just woke up, kid is watching some TV and I need some time to really wake up. #
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WallPaper 3 statisticsPosted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra. |
While WallPaper 3 is in review by Apple, I added some statistics to my blog. In the right sidebar you see a part that looks like the screenshot below:
This displays some basic statistics about WallPaper 3, this does not include stats of WallPaper 2 and below. The previous version of WallPaper will also be abandoned and everybody who already purchased the old version, can upgrade for free to the new version.
It also shows thumbnails of the last 10 images added to the library.
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WallPaper 3.0 submittedPosted on 20. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra. |
Finally! WallPaper 3.0 is submitted to the AppStore. When the application is approved, I will update this post, but here is a quick summary of the changes.
New features:
- Completely new code, more efficient, more stable
- Thumbnails look nicer and higher quality than before
- Search through wallpapers! Every wallpaper is tagged which makes finding it a lot easier!
- WallPapers are VERY high quality, supplied by TheWallpapers.org
- Option to choose whether to save the full image, or just a cropped version
- WallPaper 3 supports loadbalancing! Get the fastest server for your location!
- Support multiple resolutions, good for when a new iPhone comes out with higher resolution screen
- Upload your own images in a higher quality, no compression used!
- Completely multi-threaded. No more ’stuck’ GUI’s
- Fixed a couple of memory leaks
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WallPaper GUI UpdatedPosted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra. |
Ok just a small update post, to show you that I am not dead, lost, gone crazy or anything else.
The GUI of WallPaper is still under heavy development and I am looking for the nicest way to manage this 22.000+ wallpaper library. So here are some screenshots. Not every screen is made yet, but it will be finished by the end of the week (hopefully).
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WallPaper iPhone Edition – continuedPosted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra. |
So here are some more pics of the WallPaper for iPhone application. The collection of wallpapers is still growing because of our very nice source TheWallpapers.org.
The loading of the wallpapers is speed up by resizing them (on server) to the resolution closest matching to the iPhone resolution.The cool thing is, that this is all taken care of on the server (recognizing the iphone and supplying the right image), which should speed things up when a new iPhone with a larger resolution is released.
Ofcourse the interface is not finished and pimped yet, but its looking pretty sweet if I must say so myself…
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WallPaper – iPhone EditionPosted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra. |
So here are some quick screenies of the iPhone edition of WallPaper.
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Wallpaper and its progressPosted on 07. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra. |
I have been working on Wallpaper a lot this week, and there has been a lot of progress. If you followed my twitter, you also know most that has happened, otherwise here is a little recap.
- Wallpaper now has a new source for wallpapers. TheWallpapers.org
- Wallpapers are now searchable, by their tag and name.
- Not only iPad resolution wallpapers are available now, also larger images.
- Working on new in-app graphics
- External images can now be used
- Removed portrait mode from the application
- Brought back memory usage with 50%
Features which still need to be added:
- Ranking wallpapers (and share them with TheWallpapers.org)
- Uploading own wallpapers
- See stats of the wallpapers, resolution, download count, ranking, tags, etc.
The startup screen has been reworked, to express our thanks to our supplier. (click to enlarge)
On a nerdy note: I created the background of the startup screen with 7 lines of C# code
.Screenshot with some metadata shown:
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Reading a RSS feed with the C# XmlReaderPosted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra. |
Today I needed to parse a LARGE (1.9GB) XML file and extract some information from it. Loading it in a XmlDocument (my favorite .NET way of handling XML) wasn’t really a possibility, because that would cause Out of Memory errors the minute I would try it.
I am using a XmlReader for this and I noticed that there arent really many usable examples on the internet about this, so here is just a small example I created to show how you could read a RSS feed.
Sample after the break… (more…)
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WallPaper iPad EditionPosted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Wim Haanstra. |
I am currently working hard to get the iPad edition of WallPaper up and running. This not only involves rewriting the application, to use the new media server I got up, but also getting a whole new library of wallpapers up there.
I am glad I decided to make my media server support multiple resolutions.
EDIT: Uploaded another screenshot.
Screenie after the break… (more…)
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