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iOS App Free Promotion, Chinese App Market, and Grand Canyon

Last week, I ran a free promotion on my iOS game “PenguinLinks Pro 2″, and have learned a lot from this process. This blog post shares some numbers from this promotion, and my thoughts on how effective the “free promotion” is in general. It also discussed the growth of Chinese app market.

clingmarks.com just had a major face-lift

This blog was started back in 2007 (it was not under clingmarks.com domain at that time). From day one, it uses just some very basic wordpress themes. When we had more and more games, we started to think migrating this site to a more professional looking one. But for various reasons, this project had never been on the top of our to-do list.

Last week, finally I decided to do it.

Setup sub domain on another server machine

Recently I am working on migrating our site to a new theme (you can see why, don’t you?) So I setup an apache instance on our test server, and try to apply the new theme there first. It’s not a very straightforward task. I often need help from the vendor’s tech support. But sometime even the support guy couldn’t tell what went wrong just based on my description. The best way for him to debug is, logging into my test server’s web console, and checking things from there. This needs to expose my internal test server to outside traffic.