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10k Apart

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I have spent much of my free time the last 12 days working on a project for the 10k Apart challenge. 10k Apart is a challenge to make a compelling progressively enhanced, accessible site with 10 KB or less of initial payload per page (more can be lazy-loaded). I decided to build an implementation of Conway’s Game of Life, which I had wanted to do since going to a Code Retreat a while back.

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Sign and submit PhoneGap app for iOS and Android

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After some struggling, I got the PhoneGap app for the Akron Art Prize submitted to the iOS and Android app stores. Since it was a new thing for me and I wanted to ensure I could do it again, I took some notes on how to submit them to each store. I tried to do as much with the PhoneGap CLI as possible so it was easily reproducible from a git repo. Note that I used ‘cordova-icon’ and ‘cordova-splash’ for the PhoneGap-side assets, so I didn’t need to touch the platform folders beyond what is mentioned below.

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PHP ‘break’ argument

I’m not sure if I ever knew this before, but the PHP break statement has an optional argument that declares how many levels to break out of, eg break 2. For instance, in the following example, the break will break out of both loops when the sub-item is found:

$theSubItem = null;
foreach(getItems() as $item){
    foreach($item->getSubItems() as $subItem){
        if($subItem->isTheSubItem()){
            $theSubItem = $subItem;
            break 2;
        }
    }
}
var_dump($theSubItem);

ensuring that we won’t loop through any extra items or sub-items.

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Figuring things out with this phonegap stuff. I will have to post some of what I’ve learned when I have more time. We’re just about to the point that we can submit the app and then make the rest of the changes we have left client side. I’ve never done the submission process. It looks a bit confusing with signing things with certificates / keys and using the clients’ developer accounts. Hopefully it won’t prove too difficult. I remember it taking a while for the iOS store at least and know we had some problems with rejections where we had to resubmit several times. Hopefully we don’t run into that now, especially since we’re on tight deadlines as is.