The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 109 developer (June 22-28)

There is not a lot of news this week, but it’s all very interesting. There is, for example, a smart story about the development of the first game, a story about participating in a design competition, the news about the fact that Windows Phone came out on the second place in Russia in sales, some stories about the stack and hacks of “mobile” growth.

Seven iterations of naivety or as I and a half years wrote my debut game

With the appearance of Dendy in my first class, the question of who I will become was no more than a few weeks myself - a programmer, of course. Long and stubbornly I went to this, despite the lack of computer science at school, worked as a technical support for the well-known registrar while studying at the institute, but a full life began only at the moment when they finally took me to write code somewhere.

How I painted the design of the application for the contest Mail.Ru Group

In this article I will try to consider all aspects of the design of a mobile proposal that I had to face. Together with me you will go all the way - from deciding to participate in the competition to writing this publication.

Eat filed, sit down, please connect

Today, Intel Edison with a set of sensors and actuators will help us do the following: play the song “A grasshopper in the grass”, determine whether water flows well, whether fire is burning, pump water, check if there is a couple of spirits in the air, dusty room, as the kettle boils, determine your coordinates, find a magnet. And something else.
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