April 5, 2009 on 7:26 pm | In Coding | 1 Comment

So my ‘snooker score’ app has been out for a couple of weeks now and I’ve been really pleased with it so far; I’ve had some great feedback from people and there are quite a few more things to do with it than I had originally thought.

In testing with Apple at the moment is a 1.1 update that will add

• Undo (which I was planning to add anyway but was mentioned by a Finnish reviewer)
• A bug fix – if the last ‘red and color’ you potted was a yellow, this would incorrectly have been considered as the last yellow. Now it will ask you to pot the yellow again, which is correct (pointed out by Ruud – many thanks!)
• Remove Red Ball – a new action on the menu, you can take a red ball off the table without affecting the score. Ruud pointed out that you sometimes need to do this in Snooker, e.g. if you pot two balls in a single turn that’s not a foul, but you’ll only get 1 point for it. Also you could foul by potting a color and a red. In that case the color would be respotted (and the opponent would get points) but the red would not.
• More info – the single line of information now changes every 2 seconds to show more information, including Current Break, Score Difference, Maximum Break, Points Remaining, Red Balls Remaining.

All in all this is a good next version – I’m very happy that I managed to get undo and an updating info line in so easily (the NSTimer class being easier to use than I’d expected).

Continue reading Snooker Score – update and future thoughts…

April 5, 2009 on 6:55 pm | In Madness | No Comments

It’s a little old but I love this introduction to the F1 from Fuji TV in Japan. Every sport – actually everyone – needs to have Anime versions of themselves! It’s excellent! The music by Queen really adds to it as well.

Although I do think Lewis Hamilton looks more like Barak Omaba and Kovalinen doesn’t look like himself at all! You’ve got to love Alonso’s mad hair as well