Kind of three parts here.
- A while ago, I talked about CrumbTracker and I think it’s pretty cool. Then my wife, like much of the world, got an iPhone and I thought, man, would sure be nice to write apps in a way such that they worked on android phones, iPhones, iPads, in a browser, on a desktop, etc. Enter Flex for mobile. As I understand it, that’s the vision.
- I am a sudoku enthusiast, as evidenced by my apichallenge. I’m not a nut or anything, I just like sudoku. That said, I think it just takes too darn long to play a game. And I find myself spending most of the time applying the rather inelegant, elementary strategies of checking rows, columns and 3×3 regions for some winner spots.
- The past year or so, a few of us have been playing Dominion at work. Since we’re all kind of nerdy, we started vdom, as an open source project. Along the way, some guy named moohtank joined the fun, as seen here. vdom serves as a backend for dominion and moohtank came along, fixed some bugs and made an android app to play domion. You can actually play against my bot if you like 🙂 Anyway, it kind of made me catch the vision of small open source projects. I have been doing such things for years, but generally I would have done vdom as a closed source thing. I can’t really think of a good justification for doing such a thing. I can’t really come up with a business model where anyone gets rich from something like vdom, or actually, aidedsudoku.
So yeah, I started to write an aided sudoku mobile app using adobe flex and tonight I posted it on google code. Pretty raw, but I hope to build on it. If you have some moohtank leanings, come join in the fun 🙂
Enjoy!
Earl