Yes zhdapps.com has been around for a full year! It has been a long hard road but we made it threw alright. We’ve gone through several different hosts and layouts before we got here. Got to about 1,000 users, so I’d say we grew pretty large, especially since we have 105 apps for the zune hd on our site. Now I know, I get I don’t know how many emails about creating apps or requesting apps, we don’t make them here! We just post apps that are made by other developers, most of them come from zuneboards.com.

So anyways hope everyone’s day goes well and that zhdapps.com will be able to last another year and get better!

First off, we have a working Twitter app. Last week, Twitter killed the regular way that apps sign in called “basic auth” and from what I hear, Microsoft didn’t get as much of a notice as the rest of the population. However, they corrected it and now it works. Sadly, There are no new features so there’s not much to say about it.

Second, we have an official Metronome app. There’s not much to it, other than it looks pretty nice and that those who follow DiNoGames, may have already tried the XNA version of it.
Congrats, DiNo, on getting your app in the marketplace. Can’t wait to see more!

via zuneboards.

What this means for us, I don’t know, since that is the first app ever to get into the marketplace…If this means they are going to start accepting apps, this does not mean we will stop providing apps, as we provide XNA apps, which are coded differently then marketplace apps.

An Internet Relay Chat Client for the Zune HD. It is still in early stages, but is completely usable. This is merely an initial release so please keep that in mind when using it. Currently it is restricted to (1) channel and (1) Irc Server, both of these limitations will be done away with in time.

The server must be entered as an IP address, NOT A DOMAIN NAME. In example “irc.freenode.net” will NOT work, this will be changed in the next release to allow either. It is set to Freenode IRC on the #zbdf channel by default. If you would like to change servers, but don’t know the IP, you can look it up using the first box here: DNS Lookup
Screenshots

You can view more info at zuneboards, http://www.zuneboards.com/?page=3&p=vB52807

We will not be providing the download on here until it gets to a more stable phase, for now please use the download links the developer has provided.

I know this isn’t App related or even zune related for that matter. It is related to Microsoft and I figured if we want any use of this news page might as well post this stuff on here to. Anyways Microsoft is now worth more than apple! Check it out, http://bit.ly/c0U49a.

Well I have recently created a twitter for our site! Yay! Well so far it will only display the latest news that is going to be posted here, I have not decided whether or not I want to make it post stuff from the games side to, because it might overload our API limit. We will see though, but I want to give the news page some much needed attention lol. Anyways, check it out, http://www.twitter.com/zhdapps or if you are on twitter follow us, @zhdapps

Sorry guys, I was editing a theme on my local site this morning and didn’t realize I pasted some stuff in the wrong site. Which in turn made the site go down cause some functions didn’t exist. So no one told me till about 5 min ago that it was actually down, so I had no idea it even happened…. All should be fixed and working again, sorry again guys.

Alright, I hope you guys like the new home page, I do! So everything should be about 100% back to the way it was before I shut everything down and transferred. The forums are offline until further notice. I probably will not put them back up any time soon as they weren’t really being used much anyways. As for the developers and so forth, I don’t know if all the permissions and so forth stayed when I transferred stuff over. I will probably check all of that tomorrow. The public view though is working ok, except for some reason “Alarm HD” doesn’t have a picture and it ran off, so if someone wants to fix it, let me know lol…

One thing before I forget, none of you have users, don’t worry I will be adding you all back within the next 20 minutes or so, I couldn’t have you guys running around on the site logged in while I was working on it now could I? Once i’m done I’ll let you guys register again.

Changes:

• Both sites are managed with one core now.
• Home page has new theme.
• Contact form recoded.
• Site speed increased 40%.
• Easier access to functions in the control panel for devs.
• And many more bug fixes.

Update-2:18pm:Everything is imported and running on the games side, the contact form is still not working for some reason, but all the games and their downloads are up, I don’t know if they are fully working yet, but time should tell with that. I am still working on getting the categories fixed. Should be all done within the next 30 min or so…

Update-12:18pm: So I got the site’s back up, currently in the process of importing the data back in, as the database is different now this may take a bit of work to do.

We will be going down for maintenance around 10:30AM EDT for a couple hours or so, this will take down both this site and the games site down. I will try and get the news site up ASAP, but since I will be combining the two sites together it might not be possible till the conversion is complete. So please be patient, as I don’t want to loose anything in the process..

Update: So at the moment I cannot access the control panel for the site, our lovely host likes to change our password every so often and only the admin can get it and the admin I can’t seem to get a hold of right now. So until then, the conversion is going to have to wait…

Update: Alright, I got everything taken care of, and will be taking down the site as we speak. Will hopefully have everything backup within a couple hours.

So wordpress(our backend) has been upgraded to the latest software, 3.0 and all plugins have been also upgraded. So if you notice any odd bugs starting to show up, please let us know so I can get them fixed. The news page shouldn’t have to many if any, but the games page might be really messed up because some plugins gave me some trouble after the upgrade. If you do see any errors please include the error in your email, if you can not get to the support contact page, please try the forums or email me at z...@zhdapps.com and put “Support Ticket” as the subject line.

Update: Also our permission system for the developers, so that you guys can edit your games and update them on our site is non-functioning at the moment, so if you can’t see your games or the download manager in the dash-board please be patient as we are working on getting this fixed.

So I get a Zune HD in a couple days, so what does that mean, that means I’ll be able to code stuff for zhdapps.com for your Zune HD, what else does that mean, that means with luck I could make it so you could install apps onto your HD without the computer, now wouldn’t that be cool? It will probably take me a couple weeks after I get my zune HD to get a good sense of the openzdk API, but afterwards you can expect some changes to the site, I can’t say what you’ll see change quite yet but once I get a view of things from the Zune HD’s perspective of how our site works on there, things will go from there.

I will probably need some testers for any app I develop for here, or for any website changes that will come. I will probably post stuff on the forums and I might put another news post up, we’ll see, just keep an eye on our fb page to!