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A new jobs board has been launched as part of the new web site for the UK Game Developers trade association, TIGA. Built on the engine of DS Interactive Ltd’s very own Games Job Board the site boasts 248 senior level and 182 mid level games industry jobs in the UK (175), China (45), Germany (31), Sweden (23), Irealnd (22), and Canada (19) and many other countries. Vist the new site at http://www.tiga.org/jobs

Game Careers .BIZ – Video Games School, Jobs in Gaming.

Zero Bundle is an awesome set of resources, filled with free design goodies, icons, textures, UI kits, graphic elements for mobile development and much more! You’ll want to get your hands on this one soon as it will only be available for a very short time!

Larsson Patrik
A power pack of premium quality freebies that contains 12 premium elements (one of them is a Zero Bundle exclusive). Pack includes: Patricons v.1, PatriGlyps Set 1, buttons, login form, wood panel box, social buttons and more. For more freebies visit the authors’ website below and subscribe to his site for more exclusive freebies.

Ben Bate
The pack includes a variety of user interface elements, ranging from sleek navigation bars and login forms to site designs and icons. Included are a full Apple like menu, iPad icon, login form, and menu with notifications. Ben is a freelance designer from Plymouth, England who specialises in Graphic, UI and Web Design.

Purty Pixels
Here’s a set of PurtyPixels freebies that are crafted with oodles of fun and buckets of joy. There’s a bit of buttons (some of which are quite crazy), some author pro-esque buttons, a full fledged UI kit from the dark side and a fantastically super set of badges. PurtyPixels is a super awesome, fantastically free collection of PSD design resources designed by Richard Tabor.

+ tons of other digital goods from top notch graphic designers! Check it out and grab your free copy now!

Mobile Orchard

Well this must be bad news for Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, according to mobile market analytics specialist Flurry, developers are almost three times more likely to start development of an iOS App than to start an Android App.

Out of 55,000 companies that Flurry has been tracking, and more than 135,000 applications on their network in 2011, 73 percent of developers are working on iOS projects during the 4th quarter of 2011 compared to just 27 percent working on Android.

According to Peter Farago, vice president of marketing for Flurry “Over the year, developer support for Android has declined from more than one-third of all new projects, at the beginning of the year, down to roughly one-quarter by the end,”

Furthermore Flurry state that they believe the reason for the boost in the appeal of iOS is the fact that Apple has launched the iPhone on two new networks after three years of exclusivity on AT&T’s network. Apple has also seen an increase in popularity since the launch of the iPad 2 and the new iPhone S.

Finally according to Flurry there is one key factor that also plays a large role, the fact that developers are expected to earn 300 percent more revenue than their Android counterparts. If you’re a developer, would you rather develop apps and give them away, or have consumers pay for them?

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During the LeWeb conference in Paris Schmidt commented that he believes developers will abandon iOS for Android in less than 6 months, furthermore “he believes the high volume of Android shipments, which has given Google the largest share of worldwide smartphone sales, will win over developers.”

Since the introduction of the first smartphone and the App stores they brought with them, mobile users now have access to almost one million different applications, offering everything from social networking to addictive an hugely popular games such as Angry Birds.

When asked what he thought about the fact that most mobile applications are first released on Apple’s iOS App Store and then released on the Android platform, Schmidt stated that within 6 months Android 4.0 which, is known as Ice Cream Sandwich, will put Android on the map and gain the leading position for application developers.

While Schmidt might think that Android can overtake iOS, there is no denying the numbers, since the release of the App Store more than 600,000 apps have entered the store while a still respectable 320,000 applications have been released for the Android Market.

While Android does seem to be gaining in popularity, the fact that the App Store remains mostly free of malware, an issues which has been growing on the Android platform, added with the fact that developing apps for the iOS still seems to be more popular makes me believe that in 6 months developers will still be favoring Apple and iOS even if Android is gaining in popularity.

Check out some of the talks @ Le Web here.

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If you have always dreamed of working for Apple then this might be your chance, Apple is currently looking to hire experienced developers to work on Siri.

According to the Twitter site of Siri UI manager Dan Keen Apple is looking for a pair developers to help improve Siri, which doesn’t really come as a surprise since the artificial intelligence-driven digital secretary was launched as a beta product, something Apple never does.

According to the Job posting Apple is looking for someone who will be responsible for developing new features, maintaining existing code, fixing bugs, and contributing to overall system design.

While the fact that Apple is looking for developers to help with Siri doesn’t automatically mean they will open up Siri to third-party apps, I really think it is more a matter of time before Apple decides to allow third-party apps to use Siri, as 9to5mac.com puts it “Think talking to your apps, saying stuff like Update my Facebook status saying ‘Is anyone up for a movie tonight?’”

If you think this is the job opening just waiting for you to send your resume check these links.

iOS Software Engineer
Sr. iOS Software Engineer

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ELC Technologies is hiring!

At ELC we are proud of more than 100 years of combined application development experience including dynamic languages like Ruby, JRuby, Python, as well as strongly typed languages such as C and Java. Our knowledge of the Cloud lets us build true scalability into products. This experience, coupled with our creativity, has led us to build some of the largest, most used apps out there. We are experts in AGILE development, delivering working software in weeks, not months or years.

Our customer list includes Fortune 500 companies, major professional sports leagues, and universal media conglomerates. We have successfully completed sophisticated Ruby on Rails solutions, innovative interactive tools, trend setting mobile technologies as well as business critical applications. This has earned us the trust of some of the world’s largest companies.

We offer all the usual benefits… and if you’re located in Portland, an office with the world’s greatest espresso machine, a team of Kung Fu masters, Eight Ball champions, Nerf Gun Assassins, and world authorities on Dungeons and Dragons.

We’re passionate about many things here at ELC, such as:

• Creating cross-platform, enterprise level mobile applications with awesome UI/UX.
• Building software, mainly in Ruby on Rails but have been known to find the right tool for the right job (Scala, Erlang, and Clojure come to mind).
• Having fun, we believe that going to work should carry the same anticipation as that 10 minutes leading up to elementary school recess.
• Being Agile, we don’t force-feed one specific process, but pick and choose what is going to work on a per team/per project basis.
• Solving real world problems without compromising creativity.

Here’s what we look for in our hires:

• Strong problem solving skills.
• Have at least 1 year experience building iPhone/iPad applications.
• Proficiency in Objective-C.
• Understand when something should be extracted to an API, and how to leverage existing ones to make your life easier.
• Not afraid of trial by fire.
• Interest in learning and using new languages in real world situations
• Up to date on the latest Internet Memes and Animated GIFs or it didn’t happen.

Contact
Please send the following to:   jobs@elctech.com

1.  Links to sites you’ve worked on including a brief description of your contributions.
2.  Code samples. Anything you feel like best represents your capabilities / strengths.

Company Website URL
http://elctech.com/

iPhone Programming Tutorials

For those VB developers who are developing (or keen to start developing) for WIndows Phone 7.  The samples have been updated and as you’ll notice virtually all of them are in both C# and VB.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431744(VS.92).aspx

The Visual Basic Team

Hey iCoders,

A bunch of us on iCodeBlog have been working on a big new mobile product for developers that we are going to release in the next two months or so. Currently we have something ready for iOS developers to mess around with and try within their own applications. We haven’t released any info on this product yet but I can tell you:

1. It makes mobile development faster.
2. It plays in the cloud.
3. You already know how to use it.

We’re looking for all levels of developers to help us iterate on the product and get it ready for prime time. It’s all free, usage, support, whatever you need. But we will be contacting you before sending you invites as we are keeping our alpha user base small.

If you interested contact us at s3cr3t@elctech.com

You’ll hear more about this in the months to come. Thanks guys.

- The iCodeBlog Team
iPhone Programming Tutorials

A nice article for the developers who are on the opposite side of Mac and are looking to get started on the iPhone platform. Read it here.

iPhoneDevelopmentBits

Hi, I’m Charles Torre, Sr. Technographer with Channel 9.

One area that people simply don’t talk often enough about is Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools for Visual C++ development teams. ALM tools are critical for planning, development, testing, and maintenance of native code bases of every size. Visual Studio Ultimate offers many “out of the box” features for efficiently and easily managing a C++ code base. At Tech Ed North America, Terry Leeper and Rong Lu will be showing off these useful features and giving C++ developers a sneak peak at what’s coming…

You should definitely check out the session if you are at Tech Ed. If not, you can watch the full session right here in a couple of days.
Can’t wait that long? Well, no problem. Terry and Rong came to the C9 Studio a few days ago to share some of what they’ll be talking about at Tech Ed in Atlanta. They’ve done some great work in VC10, but ALM tools for C++ developers in the next version of Visual Studio will be better, taking architectural visualization, unit testing (yes!), andmore to the next level for C++ developers.

Enjoy.

If you can’t see any video embedded below, just click [here] to watch this presentation in Channel 9.

Visual C++ Team Blog