Posts Tagged ‘psn’

Spark 360 update; new app preview

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

Next update to Spark 360 should bring one of the most requested features – message notifications. The feature is mostly complete; currently being tested.

I’m also working on another Android app; its purpose should be fairly obvious from the following (very much alpha) screenshots. :)

Spark 360 should be updated some time within the next week; I don’t have a date (or a name, for that matter) for the other app.

Spark buzzing along

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Reception for version 1.1 of Spark has been overwhelmingly positive – thanks to all of you who left positive reviews on Android Market. My 360 decided to thank me for my efforts by finally RROD‘ing, so while I wait “two to three” of the longest weeks for my console to be repaired, I don’t have much of a choice but to continue working on Spark.  To whet your interest, here are some previews of what may be coming in the next release.

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Spark update, a few words on PSN support

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

I’m currently working on fixing the back-end of Spark. Once this is done, messages can be sent in the background, and ‘compare games’ can be re-enabled.

Today I spent some time getting to know the PlayStation Network website. Intimately. And I was pleasantly surprised – going from zero to fetching the achiev.. pardon, trophy list took a little over two hours. And I remembered why I love dealing with plain web scripting languages that do not wrap cumbersome, complicated functionality inside a deceptive layer of HTML and POSTdata (I’m looking at you, ASP.net).

The gist of this story is that PSN support is no longer a question of if, but when. I don’t know how many people are actually looking forward to PSN support (I’m much more fond of my 360 for games – my PS3 is largely used for BluRay discs, and the occasional PS3-exclusive title), but if you are, I’d like to hear about it. (I still love my PSP, though for reasons that do not include modern games.)