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Developer Spotlight: TIWizard Makes Good 34

by Dieter Bohn Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:22 pm EST

Here's a feel-good story for you: our pal TIWizard of WizardApps was spotlighted in his local news this week, talking up the apps that are going to put the 15-year-old webOS developer through college. Andrew Munsell (as humans refer to him) makes several apps now, including:

...This, folks, is one of the reasons webOS is so exciting: how easy it is for developers to quick learn and ramp up to creating apps, not to mention selling them via the App Catalog in fairly short order. Big up to you, TIWizard! Everybody else, feel free to say howdy in the WizardApps Developer Forums 

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Posted by H-Cubed on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:26 pm EST

OMG I feel like I just got pawned!!!

Posted by Xacto01 on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:22 pm EST

Maybe you mean "PWNed" :)

Posted by billybennett on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:31 pm EST

I'm jealous... I wish I had the time to sit down and learn what is needed to make applications for the Pre. I've got the basics for HTML,CSS just fine.. it's the javascript that kills me. Anyways..... Congrats on the news story.

Posted by H-Cubed on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:45 pm EST

Yea cool stuff! Kinda jealous as well but I wish alot more kids these days had that kind of drive to get there own vs. waiting for someone else.

Posted by gbp on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 3:33 pm EST

+1. I am familiar with HTML, need more time to understand JSON.
Good for the kid. I wish more developers jump in WebOS.

Posted by Jeking on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:33 pm EST

Cool story. Way to go Andrew!!

Posted by doktordeathray on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:36 pm EST

way to go kid!

Posted by Dew on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:37 pm EST

This is just amazing. To see a 15 year old kid developing for the webOS is inspiring to say the least. I'm very happy for Andrew and wish him all the best in his future endeavours. :)

Posted by jjvw on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:42 pm EST

I love it that both Fart Man and Stickyman are made by Andrew! Never stop laughing, kid. Farts will always be funny.

Posted by sybermike on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:44 pm EST

Way to go man really cool

Posted by patricksmangan on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:48 pm EST

what what Seattle area! represent!

Posted by sorli on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:50 pm EST

That is very interesting and great news! Keep up the great work and I'm glad to see it is paying off. ;-) Sorli...

Posted by deCorvett on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:54 pm EST

I wish his apps where available (at least lite versions) in Europe

Posted by GMoney749 on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 3:17 pm EST

Awesome story, good for him.

Posted by gbp on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 3:31 pm EST

Great story. Inspiring.

Posted by spare on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 3:33 pm EST

Medical school huh? Keep up the hard work. :)

Posted by Greyfox on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 3:40 pm EST

They take away his calculator away as a form of punishment? Heck if my parents doen that when i was young id be ecstatic :D

Posted by FreudSlipped on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 4:01 pm EST

Take away his Ethernet cable? He has a Pre, right?

Posted by TIWizard on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 5:50 pm EST

Well, now that there is wifi tethering... ;)

Posted by Thinker on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:09 am EST

That was before he started making money from the App Catalog.

Posted by MLJones8 on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 4:07 pm EST

Congrats, you appear to be a bright individual with a great future ahead of you!

Posted by TIWizard on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 5:49 pm EST

Thanks everyone! It's been an amazing (and busy) year...

Posted by Thinker on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:11 am EST

Good job, keep up the great work!

Posted by yyandrew on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 8:07 pm EST

we could've done without the fart app ......but good job on the rest!

Posted by majorhunadadun on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 8:38 pm EST

Dude, great story!! Keep rippin' shit! And farts too! ;)

Posted by Meltedwire on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 9:21 pm EST

Andrew, what an honor, but very well deserved! Nice apps, keep writing more.

Posted by suruat on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:11 pm EST

Man oh man what a kid. I am so impressed and happy for him. I am 20 and just able to create my first app. But i am so inspired to learn and create better and more in-debt apps. Man i got a lot of reading to do.

Posted by Prepopscience on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:15 pm EST

That's awesome. Well I guess I bought him a set of pencils for his college education as I purchased weatherman.

Posted by Indy Rhino on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:01 am EST

Sticky man ROCKS! Finding a way HIMSELF to make money and NOT relying on others...what a concept! This brings me hope for this country.

Posted by livelife on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 1:01 am EST

Congrats. It's nice to see the drive. Great job!

Posted by vertebra on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:50 am EST

I bought Stickyman and occasionally enjoy using it. Even though I already have 2 great weather apps(AccuWeather & The Weather Channel) I was really interested in buying Weatherman. After reading the reviews I will have to pass. This kid needs to take his Easter vacation and update his apps before he loses his credibility in this community.

Posted by garciaop on Sat, 06 Feb 2010 7:29 am EST

THIS MESSAGE IS FOR PALM
PLEASE PUSH THE UPDATE ALREADY
YOU HAVE EVERYONE WATTING AS AT CES EVENT YOU GUYS SAID I UNDERSTOOD THE APPDATE WAS COMING AT THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY SO PLEASE IF YOU READ THIS THEN JUST GIVE US WHAT WE WANT

HEY EVERYONE LETS ASK PALM TO GIVE US THE UPDATE ALREADY

BEST REGARDS : A DESPERATE PALM PRE OWNER


LETS EVERYONE POST SOMETHING ABOUT HOW BAD WE WANT IT NOW

AM ALMOST GOING CRAZY ALL DAY EVERYDAY JUST TOUCHING THE UPDATE APP TO SEE IF IS THERE BUT NO LUCK YET

WE WANTR UPDATE AND WE WANNT IT NOW

Posted by shacker2762 on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 1:11 am EST

Really glad to see that programming is alive and well among the youngsters today. We need more of that. For the record, I've got the paid Weatherman app and it's quite well designed.

Hope to see more from this young lad.

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