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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Intel "Ultimate Coder Challenge" Blog

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bjadams
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2012 22:35
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they should do the intel challenge every month so we keep getting these great blogs!!

Love them!
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LeeBamber
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2012 23:14 Edited at: 3rd Sep 2012 23:15
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If time permits, we were thinking of keeping the blogs going. It's a lot of work, but I think we can put it down to 'marketing' to justify the time spent on making them

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bjadams
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2012 23:27
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I get angry when I use AppGameKit because of the little quirks that really annoy me, but when I read these blogs, they make me smile, knowing that some great things are coming our way ONE DAY...
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MrValentine
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Excellent read Part Four! Bring on Part Fout point one, two and erm three lol...

Do not forget to vote guys this time it crashed on me lol

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Libervurto
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Quote: "Lee is building an app from scratch for a UK confectionery company that sells a well-known brand of candy called Love Hearts. The sweets are popular with young female teens and working women, so the app will appeal to those demographics with daily prizes, including games, extra messaging features and ideas for what to send loved ones."

It's candy... these women are taking relationship advice from a piece of candy?
The sweets are popular with me too and I'm neither working nor a woman.
"Females" is not a demographic.

Shh... you're pretty.
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BatVink
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Posted: 6th Sep 2012 22:38
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Females is a demographic. It tends to be subdivided by age, or is a subdivision of other demographics, but it's definitely a demographic in its own right.

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Is this project still happening? I thought the blog updates were due by Monday night, I've really enjoyed reading them.
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bjadams
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Posted: 13th Sep 2012 10:01
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right now all developers are at the intel conference
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Quote: "right now all developers are at the intel conference"

Not all I'm afraid... I'm still here in blighty

I'm plugging away at the friend system in Love Hearts and making another mini-game at the moment. I know Lee is coding day and night over there and at some point we are going to have to merge two very different projects... should be interesting.

I'm sure we'll be updated as soon as it is possible


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Hodgey
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baxslash: when's the deadline for your app? And as always, best of luck!

P.S Nice badge.

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baxslash
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I think this is week 5 meaning it will need to be finished next week...

Quote: "Nice badge"

Thanks someone finally noticed I hadn't been upgraded (frankly I wasn't in a hurry to become a mod, but here I am)


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bjadams
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so you have 1 week to finish the app itself and for lee to make agk windows8 friendly?!!!

this is an insane deadline!!!!!!!!!
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Who said it had to be sane...?




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Hodgey
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Posted: 14th Sep 2012 00:17
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Quote: "I think this is week 5 meaning it will need to be finished next week..."

I thought last week was week 5 since we're due for a 5th blog about week 5. Well, another week is very welcome.

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To Lee's last video in the 5th blog post, the one about using FE at the airport:

Having AppGameKit installed on my netbook I can code wherever I want, without internet connection, without draining my phone's battery and without paying for the data connection. Having to pull up my phone, activating wifi hotspot and logging into the cloud just to code seems like a lot of extra steps. And with FE you can't code on the plane, with AppGameKit you can. So I don't think it is cool in any way that you can code at the airport.




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@Digital - I totally agree.

-- Jim DO IT FASTER, EASIER AND BETTER WITH AppGameKit FOR PASCAL
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I almost agree. But what if your laptop was down and you only had your girlfriends netbook to work with

Although my wife could not stay away from facebook long enough for me to get any real work done

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Let's look at one of the bright sides of FE, people who have macs (and Linux as well I guess) can now program in AppGameKit BASIC...and I can do it at the airport.

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You're assuming you have your laptop with you, and it's x86 / x64 based. There are many scenarios under which you have internet access but no AppGameKit access.

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bjadams
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Posted: 24th Sep 2012 23:34 Edited at: 24th Sep 2012 23:34
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Quote: "Time for me to perform an ultra-backup, clear my ultra-desk and go to ultra-sleep for an ultra-month. Happy coding and be well."


Sleep for a month?!!! No Way!!!
We need the new update for AppGameKit!!!!
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The FTP username/password does not work to try the app out. Congrats Lee and TGC team for getting this app done in such a short window.
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Well done on finishing guys! Looks like a superb app and I really enjoyed the 6 part blog. I'm also up for a game of chess.

I love this quote on Intel's blog:
Quote: "At this point in the contest, I think we can all agree that Lee is some kind of hybrid man/robot programming machine. "


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MrValentine
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I hope Lee wins, and yeah that is a great metaphor for Lee I agree totally lol...

Good read for the final blog post but I hope it is not the last to be had

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bjadams
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How did the contest end?
I think it will be a bit hard to beat the quality of the Wind up football guys
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Seems like the results will be out 8 oct!
never realised the grand prize was actually $10K

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I forgot to keep track of this. It was a well fought battle and I know how it feels to lose by 1%. You guys put in valiant effort and should be proud. You'll smash it next time.

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Has anyone gotten further guidance on this part of the contest rules:

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Awards/Conditions.aspx?cid=598


Ownership and Publicity: Neither CodeProject nor Intel claim ownership of your submission to the contest (please see the "Ownership" item in CodeProject Contributors Agreement); but by submitting an entry, you grant CodeProject, its affiliated companies and necessary sub-licensees a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully assignable and transferable right and license, to edit, adapt, translate, reformat your Work, to post your Work (eg. publish, display, perform, digitally perform) anywhere on our Site, to do what CodeProject feels it needs to do to manage and update the Site, to make and maintain back-up and archival copies, and to make your Work available to End Users in accordance with this Agreement and the specific EULA that you specify.


So they don't claim ownership .. but they claim royalty-free irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully assignable and transferable license .. to blah blah you can see the rest.

Most of that just sounds like promotional stuff; and I don't see the word 'sell' in there; so I just want to know again if anyone got further guidance is this meant to be taking all the profits from the sale of the app?


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Hodgey
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@ erebusman: I think you're after this thread?

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Erebusman, in the end it all boils down to, that they can make videos and take snapshot of your app in action, and use it in Intel adverts.
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LeeBamber
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Exactly, the app is yours entirely and absolutely. They just want the right to talk about your app

Hogging the awesome since 1999
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