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The code behind Oz Quiz, MusicMentor, CountryCaps and WorldFacts will be released as open source software, and the questions in them will be released under a Creative Commons license.

The quiz script that powers all of these applications will be released, which will enable anyone who wants to create a high-quality quiz in a HTML environment will be able to, remedying the current dearth of quality quiz JavaScript code.

As part of all this, all versions of Oz Quiz, MusicMentor, CountryCaps and WorldFacts have been removed from the iTunes App Store and the Apple Dashboard site. Once the open sourcing is complete, you will be able to download the source code and questions for these apps.

Keep watching this blog for the open source release of these applications.

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.