“A great leap in the dark” — Thomas Hobbs
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I Wrote a Customer Review on Amazon
I purchased an Asus monitor for my Mac Mini as a cheap alternative to the 27″ Apple Thunderbolt Display. I had a couple of tips and shared them on Amazon. A couple of things to note: Amazon make writing the review insanely easy. When I logged into Amazon it prompted me to rate and review…
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This belongs on Tumblr
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Cocos2D-Swift 3.0: A great way to get started developing iOS games!
If you’re new to iOS game development now is a great time to get started. In 2008 a brilliant engineer named Ricardo Quesada rewrote his 2D game engine for Apple’s iOS and released it as open source. It’s no exaggeration to say that hundreds of games, like my own, were developed using Cocos2D-including dozens of…
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Apple’s Snakes and Ladders Swift Example
All the cool kids are learning Swift this week! Not wanting to be left out I downloaded Xcode beta 6 and the iBook introduction and started following long with the code sample in Xcode’s new playground. Swift is impressive as it fixes a number of issues with Objective-C by replacing it wholesale with a modern…
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Sprite Kit, Retina, iOS7 and Getting It Right
I spent more time that I care to admit figuring out how to reconcile my old Dungeonators code with Apple’s Sprite Kit, Retina displays, and iOS 7. Along the way I searched the web for help and ran into tons of tutorials and advice for indy game developers (I highly recommend www.raywenderlich.com for a…
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Re-doing Dungeonators
One thing I think all software developers love to do is to make software for “the heck of it.” Hacking something together without having to worry about users, open source community members, and code reviews, is something devs don’t get to do often in these days of test-driven, agile, minimum viable products. Back in 2011…
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April 1, 2014 Tech News
Google Announces Google++ Google++ users will have access to a social network with encapsulation, multiple inheritance, and polymorphism. Google++ users get the added benefit of UML diagrams and free advice from the Gang of Four (The computer scientists, not the punk band). Yahoo! Acqui-hires Apple To ensure it has the right talent for the 21st…
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Learning Haskell on the Web
(Image source: https://blog.kejsarmakten.se/all/software/2011/10/23/haskell.html) Below are websites and such that I’m tracking in my quest to sharpen my FP skills by learning Haskell in my spare time. The Haskell website (where you can download it) A brief introduction to Haskell on GitHub (apparently from a book on Scala, short and sweet) A complete Haskell textbox on…
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H3LLO WO2LD
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Conan Loves HuffPost
.@HuffingtonPost is set to ban anonymous comments. I guess "SexxxyGingerNotConanOBrien" will have to move on to greener pastures. — Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) August 25, 2013
Got any book recommendations?