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Picklets 1.1 is now live in the App Store in Canada, US, UK, EU countries and Switzerland in addition to Australia and New Zealand.
The Picklets app is a free download.
The 3 Baddest Bandits of the Wild Wild West by Ben Hutchings and Mummy in the house! by Peter Nishitani are available [...]
It’s happening this Wednesday Melbourne time. Sometime on Wednesday Picklets 1.1 will go live. (It’s been approved, just fixing a few web things now.)
The price of content will also drop to $0.99 (that’s the Australian price, at least) and for the first time the app will be available in US and UK [...]
I’ve been working on a new feature in the Picklets app which makes it easy to swipe quickly through all the panels of a picklet – from the cover to author bio. It’s not finished, but I like showing things that aren’t finished. There are so many of them to choose from.
A media release went out this week pitching Picklets as “A new opportunity for animators, illustrators and authors to get digital”. From the release;
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Breaking eggs to make picklets
Yesterday I noticed that the Picklet Store previews weren’t working. It’s happened before that my in-progress back-end development deployment breaks the current version of the Picklets app. A real engineer would have a) unit test coverage to catch the regression, b) monitoring of the live server that flags the service failure or c) both of [...]