About a year ago, I started thinking up a score tracker for Guitar Hero. About a month later, I started coding it. It started actually working around the end of May 2007, and I officially launched it to the world this summer.
As you may have noticed, I haven't touched it since last October, with the introduction of the mobile version. The userbase hasn't really been active either, and so, I'm announcing that I'm dropping support for cherrypie until further notice.
I'm not taking the site offline, I just want to officially state that I'll only deal with issues on a case-to-case basis if brought up by a user and if notable enough to be fixed. In the case that I do take the site offline, every user will be notified, and I'll have some sort of exportable data so you can use it elsewhere.
I do have other projects down the pipeline, and you should be hearing about them pretty soon.
Today, Apple held a press conference about the iPhone developer roadmap. I took notes while watching the keynote. So here they are:
- Enterprise functions look pretty cool. This means ActiveSync licensing, IPsec VPN, WPA2, mass device config, and remote wipe.
- They renamed UIKit to "Cocoa Touch". Twitter people immediately started going on about how that'd be a great name for a porno. (I still saw a reference to UIKit somewhere in the Xcode demo though.)
- Core Location is a new API they announced today for location-aware applications. Pretty sweet.
- Developer tools are: Xcode, Interface Builder, Instruments, and the much-awaited iPhone simulator.
- Not sure what Interface Builder exports, given that Mobile OS X doesn't have .nib files. :/
- TouchFighter. It's essentially an Apple-built StarFox clone. In full 3D and positional sound. If it ever gets multiplayer, it is the killer app.
- AIM. They managed to make a decent-looking client, much nicer than Apollo or MobileChat today. I want it. (Icon sucks though.)
- Super Monkey Ball. It's tied with TouchFighter for best game. Give it the fun minigames from the GameCube versions and this wins it.
- Someone in the audience laughed when the App Store's badge showed an update was available, probably because of how much it looks like Installer or Cydia's badge.
- Apparently iPod touch users have to pay (again) to get this. Fuck you Apple. Or rather, Sarbanes-Oxley.
Oh well, at least this means there's actual documentation for some of the shadier APIs now. Worst part of the keynote: when Steve said there were refreshments right out the door, and there actually weren't.
