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Animal Crossing Wii Friend Code

As is traditional by now, I’m posting my Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (that’s what the Wii version is called in the EU; it’s “City Folk” in the US) Friend Code.

Here it is: 2320 9953 1180

I’m Matt in Aceville. Feel free to add me to your Friend Roster and post your own Friend Code below. I believe that only EU Friend Codes will work with mine (not Japanese or US ones), but I’d love to learn otherwise.

Note: kids, please do not post your email addresses; I will remove them if you do.

What have you tried?

If you’re a developer and you’re about to ask another developer a technical question (on a forum, via email, on a chat channel, or in person), you’d better be ready to answer the question “What have you tried?”

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iPhone dev tips for synced contacts

I wanted to share a couple of brief tips for developers who are working with contacts on iPhone and iPod touch, where the user has enabled syncing with services like MobileMe or Microsoft Exchange.

These are lessons I’ve learned when diagnosing and fixing a couple of bugs which my (most beloved) users of Favorites have reported. If you’re an iPhone developer who’s doing things with the Address Book API, you may want to take note.

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Gemmell Inside

An idle comment on Twitter today about my code being included in third-party applications inspired my friend and colleague Sebastiaan De With to (finally) create what we’ve all been waiting for: “Gemmell Inside” badges for your software, websites and product packaging!

Get them while they’re awesome - which will be for the foreseeable future. (Both large and small versions of the round and rectangular badges are available below.)

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Favorites UI design

I recently released my first iPhone app, Favorites - you can read more about it here, or go straight to it on the App Store (iTunes link).

I wanted to write a bit about some of my UI design decisions, and some lessons I learned during the development process with regard to creating software interfaces for the iPhone. So here goes.

This post contains plenty of screenshots and a few brief movies too; screenshots are bordered in white, and movies are bordered in blue (with a Quicktime controller immediately below each one). You might not see the movies if you’re reading this via the feed instead of on the web.

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