Mike Cohen

ICHC Road Map

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Now that ICHC 2.0 was approved, I’m starting on 2.1, which has one very major change: instead of my scraped feed, which goes down pretty often, it will use the new Cheezburger Content APIs. Other features I’m planning are full iPad support and sharing LOLs on FaceBook or Twitter. I will most likely release an update which only switches it to the new APIs, since that’s a fairly urgent change.

I haven’t abandoned PicSlide. My plans for it include additional photo sources such as Flickr recent & interesting, defaulting to medium instead of easy level, as well as full iPad support and maybe additional puzzle sizes for the iPad.

ICHC 2.0 Is Ready For Sale!

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I just got an email from the iTunes Store informing me that I Can Has Cheezburger 2.0 (both free & pro versions) is ready for sale. It may take a few hours for it to appear in all of the app stores as an available update.

It was approved in 8 days (1 week after I got an email saying the review process will require extra time). This is the first time Apple approved both the free & pro versions at the same time, even though I always submit them at the same time.

Now I can work on 2.1 using the new content APIs.

Cheezburger app feed was broken

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The ICHC app feed was broken today. Whenever that happens, I always get about a dozen emails asking if there’s something wrong with the application. No, it isn’t the application; it’s the feed.

This time it wasn’t a problem with the server. Something in the first page of icanhascheezburger.com confused my script and caused it to exit. I added some additional error checking so it should work now. This is always a danger when you’re using a scraped feed, as I’m doing in the app. I’ve made it more robust than the original script, but it’s still always one step away from breaking if the slightest thing on the page changes.

The real fix will come in 2.1 when I start using the new Cheezburger featured content retrieval API, which will return exactly what appears on the site and lets you retrieve multiple pages of items. However, not all content is currently available via that API, although they’re working on bringing it up to date.

I submitted version 2.0 exactly one week ago today, and one day later I received the dreaded email:

We are currently reviewing an app that you submitted for inclusion on the App Store, and want to let you know that the review process will require additional time. We apologize for the delay and will provide you with an update on the status of your app as soon as possible.

I still haven’t heard anything further from Apple.

links for 2010-03-04

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Yazzem API is live

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If you haven’t heard of Yazzem, it’s a site similar to Twitter which lets you start topics about anything you want. Unlike Twitter, Yazzem is conversation oriented. You create or join a topic and add comments to the thread. Topics & comments are limited to 200 characters, making them more like a tweet and much easier to use and more lightweight than a traditional forum. Yazzem was founded by Dustin Snider and Zachary Collins, both 15, and was acquired by Teens In Tech Networks (which I’m the CTO of).

The Yazzem team has been working on an API which will allow developers to build applications that interact with Yazzem. It will be featured at the Hacker dojo API hackathon tomorrow.

Read the Yazzem team’s API announcement here. The API is documented at api.yazzem.com.

For Mac & iPhone developers, I’ve created a Cocoa wrapper class with both Mac & iPhone demo applications, available at http://github.com/mike3k/Cocoa-Yazzem.

ICHC 2.0 Submitted

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I’ve submitted I Can Has Cheezburger 2.0. Here are the changes:

  • Completely rewritten based on Three20.
  • User interface is much more responsive
  • New home screen with site icons
  • Shake to shuffle can be disabled
  • Movies no longer play automatically
  • About screen has a link for latest news
  • ‘create LOL’ will restore the last LOL if unsaved.
  • Now requires OS 3.0 or later.