Triple Threat Mobile Development

Shhh! Busy working…

Brian Buck — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:32:38 +0000

Sorry. We’ve been a bit quiet on our blog lately but we are working hard on a couple major deals. We plan on publishing a case study paper for one of our projects. Stay tuned for updates, new home page announcement, and latest newsletter. Happy mobile computing!

iPad Pre-order Day!

Brian Buck — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:45:00 +0000

Exciting news today as it marks the first day to pre-order the much anticipated Apple iPad (WiFi model.) Here at Triple Threat we jumped on the chance to get ours on Apr 3 opting for the retail store pickup option.

The big driver for us is the fact we kick off a new iPad project at the beginning of April. This is a B2B application for one of our clients in the industrial engineering space.

Please stay tuned as we plan to post technical information on our iPad development experience that hopefully other developers can use to gain insight into this exciting new platform.

Be Mine Hearts re-released under Triple Threat

Brian Buck — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:03:38 +0000

Hey all,

We are excited to announce the recent submission of “Be Mine” to the Apple App Store. Be Mine was originally published under our former company name, Two Bit Software, featuring over 100 unique candy conversation hearts. The first version was built for iPhone OS 2.x and lacked some features we really wanted to implement.

The latest version (1.7) will have additional send features other than simply saving to the device photo album. The send features are:

save to photo album
email image attachment
post to Facebook

send features

The big win for this release is the Facebook Connect functionality. We have been wanting to do a project with Facebook integration for quite some time and this re-release was a perfect opportunity to do just that!

The app will be made available for free and hopefully just in time for Valentine’s Day. We will post an update to this post once available in the store.

Peace.

The Mobile Web – 65 million users strong and growing.

Brian Buck — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:30:35 +0000

Researching the state of the mobile web came across this list:

Data as of August 2009. Prior to the Google acquisition of AdMob:

1. Millennial: 45.6 million
2. Yahoo: 36.1 million
3. Google: 31.9 million
4. AOL/Platform-A’s Third Screen Media: 28.6 million
5. AdMob: 25.7 million
6. Microsoft’s MSN Ad Network: 25.4 million
7. Jumptap: 23.4 million
8. Quattro Wireless: 23 million

Interesting to note that Millenial is a Baltimore based company.
How the heck do they have this sortof reach? Baltimore. Seriously.

Here’s the original article:

http://moconews.net/article/419-the-real-list-of-the-largest-mobile-ad-newtork-sort-of/

Some more recent data from Millenial from their most recent SMART Report:

http://www.millennialmedia.com/wp-content/images/SMART/MillennialMedia-SMART-OCTOBER-2009.pdf

The U.S. Mobile Web grew 1.11% to 64.8M users
Apple Dominates with over 115,000 app
Apple saw over 100m downloads per month.
Android and Blackberry followed with 20M and 300k respectively.

Light weight REST Web Services

Brian Buck — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:49:27 +0000

This post is really a followup to the last JSON topic post. R&D has been going strong as of late. We have built a nice little prototype for scalable web services using Microsoft WCF for RESTful Web Services. Development and deployment is very straight forward. MS Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 beta provide the necessary project templates and use of 1-click deployment makes it a snap to host on IIS. One of the nicest features using WCF for REST WS is the ability to switch and/or overload resource methods to return XML, JSON or even ATOM feed formats. All this can be done using method attributes. That’s it! Additionally, through proper design and abstraction of data model classes we have built a seamless ADO.NET layer to connect to any data source on the backend.

See http://www.developer.com/article.php/3695436

One the client-side, we have demonstrated a cross-platform jQuery / Ajax library for consuming the REST WS. It works in IE, Firefox and mobile Safari on the iPhone. An Obj-C client library is in the works as I write this post.

More to come on this topic including links, resources and a full report on this effort. Happy coding!

Dante’s Devilz Food Quest 9/10 review by TheiPhoneAppReview.com

Brian Buck — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:48:27 +0000

Sweet Review of Dante’s Devilz Food Quest:

http://www.theiphoneappreview.com/11/dantes-devilz-food-quest-iphone-game/

More praise for Dante’s Devilz Food Quest. Stoke ‘em up !

“ Play Your Way Through The Inferno With Dante’s Devilz Food Quest …

Score: 9/10 By Nancy Jones

Stoke them, fling them, grab the cake and just have fun. Dante’s Devilz Food Quest, developed by Triple Treat Mobile Development is a hoot! This classic arcade-style stacking game provides you with hours of entertainment.

With each level you have a new challenge. In Level 1, you stack up three Dante’s to get cake. In Level 2 you have two levels to manage – which, somehow was easier for me. I didn’t have as much trouble keeping them on their platforms. Level 3, my favorite, allows you to fling the Dante’s around to push the cake down and earn points.

Creepy music, evil laughter and great sound effects work together to spice up the fun quotient for this game. I particularly enjoyed the sounds it makes when you stoke up the Dante’s. It is similar to the sound of bacon frying. Just the perfect sound for the hellish environment. . . . “

Here’s the complete review of Dante’s Devilz Food Quest

http://www.theiphoneappreview.com/11/dantes-devilz-food-quest-iphone-game/

JSON visited

Brian Buck — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:44 +0000

Our dev dept is looking into using JSON for a mobile, cross-platform, data exchange format that can be used in both mobile web and native application. I have been using XML to satisfy this requirement for nearly a decade but the extra markup needed for well-formed may be too much for larger data sets especially streamed over slow wireless networks to mobile devices. I’m looking at speed/performance criteria and compactness for streamed data. I’ve written a thousand delimited data parsers before and I’ve heard of JSON and prefer to use standards. This may be the way to go. Any comments are appreciated. I’m looking for the fastest C#, C or C++ implementation.

Triple Threat Mobile Development on “the Deuce”

Brian Buck — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:12:33 +0000

Some nice exposure for us on Denver Channel 2.

Here’ s the video:

Be sure to check out Nina Sparano on the Internet cafe:

http://www.2thedeuce.com/news/internetcafe/

Dante’s Devilz Food Quest Featured on iTunes store. #4 in “WHAT WE”RE PLAYING” games section

Brian Buck — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:00:55 +0000

Great week for us for Buzz.

Got featured on Channel 2 news

Today Dante’s Devilz Food Quest is #4 in the “WHAT WE’RE PLAYING” games section of iTunes.

YEAH !!!

Dante’s Devilz Food Quest for iPhone and iPod touch

Brian Buck — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:12:32 +0000

Stoke ’em up !

Dante's Devilz Food Quest

Dante’s Devilz Food Quest :
Halloween inspired videogame for iPhone and iPod touch.

Just in time for Halloween. Triple Threat Mobile Development is proud to announce
Dante’s Devilz Food Quest. A videogame for iPhone and iPod touch.

He’s grumpy. He’s ugly. He likes Devilz food cake. He’s Dante.

Dante’s Devilz Food Quest is a fun and spooky videogame for iPhone and iPod touch.
Challenging for all age levels. Featuring fast paced gameplay.
Dante’s Devilz Food Quest is available now on the iTunes App Store:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=336230952&mt=8

Dante’s Devilz Food Quest is a fun arcade style game with stunning graphics and sound.
Classic arcade game fans will love the old-school graphics and intuitive gameplay.

Fun Halloween inspired graphics.
Haunting Halloween inspired soundtrack.
Instinctive gameplay with Funky underworld physics.
Unique touch flick and accelerometer controls.
Fast paced casual gameplay.