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Over the past few weeks, I've been working on my first application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and it's now been approved for the iTunes App Store.

The application is called "Oz Quiz", and it's a quiz with over 600 questions about Australia, covering history, politics, popular culture, our indigenous people, environment, technology, arts, music, sport, geography, law, demography, and more.

It's been an interesting process to develop the app, which I'll be posting on very soon; but in short, the signup and review process with Apple was very easy, and working with jQTouch is mostly easy, and overall I only had a few issues worth mentioning.

Figaro Pho, a series of 1-minute television animations broadcast on ABC1 earlier this year, whose Flash-based interactive site Katalyst built early this year, won 2 AFI Awards last Saturday, in the categories of Best Children’s Television Animation and Outstanding Achievement in Television Screen Craft.

Big congratulations to Luke Jurevicius and the guys from Vishus Productions!

The interactive website for Figaro Pho also won an ATOM award a few weeks ago, in the category of Best Interactive / Video Game.

Congratulations to Haydn for his outstanding flash work and to everyone involved in the project for creating an award-winning site!

I'm only sad I didn't get to work on the project myself :).

Another Katalyst Web Design project completed by myself in RoR was Core Energy

From the web site:
Core Energy Group is a boutique advisory firm, providing specialist strategy, transaction and corporate finance services across the energy value chain, predominantly to clients in Australia and Asia.

I completed the back end for Electric Circus the Adelaide night club for Katalyst Web Design. Ewan Brewerton, previously a fellow developer at Katalyst and formerly of The Botanic, has now moved to a management position at Electric Circus.

MHM is a leading Adelaide consultancy and accounting firm. For Katalyst Web Design I completed the back end of the MHM site using Ruby on Rails.

Katalyst Web Design were finalists of the Australian Graphic Design Association National Awards (2008) and Bronze Medallists in the Adelaide Art Director Club Awards (2007). Bronze Medal was the highest result gained for Web Design.