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Hi,
i just received a email from a site that i win a award to be one of the best programming blogs (?) you can see it here
i need to say, i think the site is a little crap, but at least they give me nice badge 
at least know that someone read all the no senses i write 
Regards,
Shadow.
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Hi,
today i noticed on my recently brought android phone that when i made a app search, android paid app’s showed as options, something that before didn’t happened.
so i made a quick search and i found this on the official android blog.
so now, 20 more countries can buy and sell app’s including argentina
Regards,
Shadow.
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Hi,
as i said in a earlier post, i brought a android phone, and some days ago looking for the app’s to install, i was looking for some MSN app. in my first search i found ebuddy, a service that i never used but i know that hey existed for years. so i installed the app, created a new account and link my hotmail credentials. all worked flawless so i continued doing my stuff. hours later, i starting to receive bounced emails from my contacts, send from my hotmail account, that was more than obvious that was spam. so then i changed my hotmail password and the spam emails stopped.
how i know that the fault was from ebuddy? i’m more than careful with my mails and important accounts, all of them have a different passwords that i change time to time, i do not use any web service, all open source app’s as AMSN in case of msn, and i only login on my computer or in this case phone, i never login on a public or strange computer for any reason. and BTW, my computer is running ubuntu, so virus are not a possibility 
so, i don’t know if they sell your data to the spam people or have a big and important security breach, but avoid using ebuddy at all cost, from my side i reported the app and downloaded an app that directly connect to the msn service called “MSN Talk”.
Regards,
Shadow.
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Hi,
the game development indie/groups/companies appears and disappear every day, and in argentina are just a few in this business. just wanted to make a list and little review of the more relevant and still living projects, if you are looking for someone to make your game, or just want to contact them. also i know there are a lots of companies that make outsourcing, but i just wanted to list the small ones, to give them a little more of web presence.
if you have any suggestion for this list (add/change/delete any entry) just send me a email (david [AT] y-developments.info ) or make me a comment here.
be aware that the description (at least for the indies) are write in a funny way
indie people:
Tyranus
One of the promises in the indie world (?). he usually make that strange indie games, but at the same time, suitable for all the people, experimenting with the gameplay and the user experience. have improved her art skills in the last year, but anyway all his work have the correct art for the project. he usually work on flash, using flixel, and making pixel art. he is working now in a big and secret project that could change the world (ok maybe i’m exaggerating, but will be awesome anyway )
web: http://www.tyranus.com.ar/
contact: alejandro.adrian.iglesias[AT]gmail.com
2bam (nitram_cero)
The most ugly, crazy, and beared men in the argentinian indie scene. anyway, even with all his defects, is a good guy, with crazy ideas and *usually* know what he is doing. from a personal opinion, i’m amazed from his knowledge, he knows flash,c/c++,asm (?) and how to cook the rice xD. right now is working for a company making games (i’m not sure if a can say the name, sorry ) but he will be always a indie, making those flash and pixelated games. his last work was a entry for the last CODEAR, you can see it here. he also made a flixel map editor called flan, that you can see here
web: http://www.2bam.com/
contact: twobananasandmilk[AT]gmail.com
Daniel Bermegui
The indie Super Star, some people say that is a legend, other people say that have seen hus half-hair head (the urban myths says that he lost half of the hair making a art game called today i die ) i don’t know him too much, the last time i have seen some comics drawn by him, that i think still needs work, dunno what is he doing now, usually his project are a secret at least for me )
web: http://www.ludomancy.com/
contact: daniel[AT]ludomancy.com
Martin Gonzalez
martin is….. martin great experience making games, one of the founders of DarkSpell games, and creator WAK. he also developed several commercial games in companies as joju games, sabarasa etc.. right now is working in vostu and making a top down killing zombies games, i hope we could see it soon
web: i think don’t have one
Puelo Games
My old friend, puelo, he also make games ! he started making clones and is still doing it but is making some original project that we hope could see soon right now is working in a innovative TD type game, and making snowboard in his 5 star resort in rio negro (?) (yes, he is a eXtreme dev )
web http://www.puelogames.com.ar/
contact puelogames[AT]gmail.com
il Mare Games
another one that i don’t know too much, anyway his work have improved a lot from their first games. dunno what is doing now.
web http://ilmaregames.com.ar/
Small groups and companies
Heavy Boat
a small company formed by 2 experienced professionals in the game industry, david roguin (another founder of DarkSpell games, that worked also in tons of games in companies as QB9) and Juan (founder of 9a18 studio, that also worked in QB9) and also a great artist called leo, who really make amazing art pieces. they are working and making project for big and important companies, and also producing their own original projects, if you are looking for a company that could convert your idea into a reality, this is one of the best choices . also, if you are developer, is a MUST to read their devlog.
contact: contact[AT]heavyboat.com
Killabunnies
a group of 3 people that live and work on santa fe, away from the capital of the country, but producing amazing and innovative stuff. the team is composed by Luciano Vairoli, leader and game designer, with a career developing games from the stone age (and i’m being serious here). he made games for 486 DX, and consoles as atari. the other 2 members are a as3 dev (mariano obeid) and a artist (andres miranda). his biggest hit is a puzzle game called bubba time a game that mix the control of the time as braid with salomon key. a great and polished product indeed. they are available to make projects, so, give him a shout
web http://www.killabunnies.com.ar/
contact info[AT]killabunnies.com.ar
Jengibre
a game dev company managed by Andres Martinez Quijano, they focus to outsource and make advergames. they made great games for famous companies and sites as Taringa! and Fox. if you look for quality advergames, this is a good option.
contact: info[AT]jengibre.com.ar
South Winds Games
SWG is a company focused to produce family casual games and managed by Juan Pablo Ferreyra. they have 3 successful games that you can buy here
web http://www.southwindsgames.com/
contact contact[AT]southwindsgames.com
and that’s all buddies, i hope this could help you in some way, if you want to be in this list, just send me a email or write a comment in this post
PD: i’d like that ipsilon development could be there, but we are not making games at this moment, and i dunno when we could make them again 
Regards,
Shadow.
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Hi,
recently come up to the net 3 important contests to develop android compatible games with flash, the prizes are good, and is sponsored by adobe, if you are interested, are this:
in FGL: ?http://www.flashgamelicense.com/sponsor_pages/adobe/? there are 30.000 USD in prizes, 150 winners.
in mochimedia: http://mochiland.com/articles/announcing-the-mochi-made-for-mobile-contest-with-adobe here are 15.000 USD in prizes, less winner tough
in kongregate: http://www.kongregate.com/pages/mobile-game-contest like 30.000 USD in prizes.
anyway, check the rules of the contest (the detail ones, the user agreement) why usually just for winning or entering a contest like this you are giving to the sponsor a non-exclusive sponsorship.
Regards,
Shadow
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Hi,
today i wanted to write a opinion about this 2 mobile operating system, basically why appeared the new iphone 4 and i was excited to compared with what comes apple to compete with froyo.
Disclaimer: i never have an iphone or an android device even close, my opinions are based on technical spects, and videos, i mainly focus my opinion of this type of product from the point of view of the developer and the end user.
The people who know me, know that i’m always to the side of the open source and liberty, but when it comes to this i try to see the thing in a objective form.
The key of the new era: usability and features
this 2 news OS versions are bringing new really nice features in the mobility devices, as multitasking, video edition (in the case of iphone), photos, music and games. also, to integrate all this features in a small devices as a phone, is needed a new way the user should interact, why there is no a psychical keyboard or mouse. the multitouch technology have helped a lot in this matter but also the engineering to create easy to use commands to use anything (a program, a mobile device, a website etc..) is not something easy (i talk with experience in this matter)
iOS4 is winning over the general user and developer market
the demonstration that apple give i think have been a great defeat for android, and i’m not talking even for the available app’s, the new hardware or even the new especial features, i’m talking that apple is delivering a perfect product for all the markets, the simple user , the hardcore user, and a complete pack for the dev to deploy applications and get revenue from it.
as many developers i hate the apple policy, but need to be honest that the policy is make it possible to deliver a robust product, open a new market for developers and new features for users to enjoy.
android, same history as J2ME
i’m seeing that android is having the same future as j2ME. J2ME is a java api that was promoted to develop mobile application to all devices just building once. the problem with J2ME is that the manufacturers implemented the API as they want, so the portability was impossible and only big companies (as gameloft) could develop games or app’s and port it to the almost all the existent devices. happened the same with android, devices with 8 different types of versions on the market and depending from the manufacturer to upgrade to a new version.
android started ok, as an open source project, delivering features that the competitor wasn’t able to do etc.. (we already know that) and the good of this is as open source, at least i expected a explosion of android powered devices but it started too late, from the day android was announced, take like 1-2 years to start to see android devices in the market, most of them on the high end market.
also, android is not open as apple to the devs (ironic to say this right?). yes, apple don’t approve the app’s that they want. and don’t give any explanation, but at least anyone who pay’s the 100$ can publish and develop commercial app’s. for android, is only limited to countries that have google checkout supported (USA and UK).
The future is in non-fragmentation
of course that new features will give to the users new attraction but from my point of view, the way that android could be a stable and all-users platform is avoiding the fragmentation by the manufacturers. a good solution to make this will be the same as linux make, a repository. so, basically all the android devices can be upgraded to the most newest version and having available the features depending of the hardware where is installed. also a more open policy for developer will be a good thing to have more apps on the store.
anyway, i going to still buy a android device when i can, but of course, is a developer decision more than a normal user
surely it will not help you but is just my opinion
Regards,
Shadow.
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Hi,
i never use the web interface of gmail, i always use my gmail account with thunderbird but just i was suprised when i was need to search for a old email, and make a search. at that point all was perfect but when i tried to sort by date i didn’t found any link for that, and even didn’t you the “last page” link, so i was forced to make a next action till seeing hundreds of emails, when i only needed to sort by the most old email or at least can go the last page.
google UI design FAIL
Regards,
Shadow.
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Hi,
has been like 6 months i’m dealing with the payflow pro platforms making integrations for this processor payment. basically, this it’s a processor like others, managed by paypal, it’s nor hard to do it, but sometimes you can get some errors that can make you crazy searching info about it, i think this tips can help you to make you work easier
1) have a problem? check the paypal forums
here it’s where i solved my 90% of my problems, and i didn’t even need to ask !. it’s a little hard to search and the forum it’s not “friendly” but they do the job . Payflow Gateway Forums
2) if you don’t know anything about, first, read some guides
when i started lookin for this, i didn’t even know how this working (the most close thing i ever made was the IPN paypal integrations, what are very diferents from this ) and the guides help me a lot to know what i needed to get the job done. Payflow PDF Guides
3) look for the best solution for your platform
the payflow pro have several options for each platform. if you are using something web based (like php) you need to use the https interface and if you are using other platform, like .NET or java, check the SDK .if after all of this you still feel lost, check the examples to see what you are doing wrong
4) use https for all your data transactions
maybe it’s a little obvious, but you need to use https in all the pages that involves the process of vital integration, from the form where the user enter her credit card number to the script that call to the payflow service and make the transaction
5) commons errors and solutions
here i going to detail you the commons error that can return the payflow gateway when you make a transaction:
User Authentication Failed
this happen when you are sending the incorrect credentials to the payflow pro server, check that the username, password, vendor and partner are correct from your account.this can happen also if you are filtering by ip the call’s to the gateway, if it’s yes, go to the manager , log in, go to “service settings” and check if the ip of your server are in the list.
User Authentication Failed: Vital
this usually happen when something it’s wrong with you account, like it’s not active for live transactions (if you are trying to run a live transaction). i recommend that if your account it’s already active for live transactions, call to your bank or who provide you the account and let them know the error.
account rules broken
i don’t remember exactly the name of this error, sorry but basically it’s a configuration error, again, log in into manager, and go to “account administration” -> “manage security” and there change the values of according of what you need to process, take note that the changes take effect in 1 hour.
transaction declined
it’s the more common error, and can have several reasons, some of them are:
*order amount more than 1000 dollars in test mode
*trying to process card’s not supported by the account (this need to check it with your bank)
*the credit card it’s invalid or you are passing in a incorrect way the parameters
*you are not sending a unique ID.
i hope all this tips help you and make you save some time if you need some cards number for test, you can user this below:
| MasterCard: | 5431111111111111 |
| Amex: | 341111111111111 |
| Discover: | 6011601160116611 |
| American Express (15 digits) | 378282246310005 |
| American Express (15 digits) | 371449635398431 |
| American Express Corporate (15 digits) | 378734493671000 |
| Diners Club (14 digits) | 30569309025904 |
| Diners Club (14 digits) | 38520000023237 |
| Discover (16 digits) | 6011111111111117 |
| Discover (16 digits) | 6011000990139424 |
| JCB (16 digits) | 3530111333300000 |
| JCB (16 digits) | 3566002020360505 |
| MasterCard (16 digits) | 5555555555554444 |
| MasterCard (16 digits) | 5105105105105100 |
| Visa (16 digits) | 4111111111111111 |
| Visa (16 digits) | 4012888888881881 |
| Visa (13 digits) | 4222222222222 |
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Hi,
no tiene nada que ver con tecnologia, pero abri mi otro blog para que puedan subir la foto de tu mama
pueden ver de que se trata aqui:
http://commentame.com.ar/2008/10/17/subi-la-foto-de-tu-mama/
Regards,
Shadow
