Section 3.3.1 is Good News to Native iPhone Developers
Apr 9th
There has been many reactions to the recent iPhone Developer Program License Agreement change, from apologetic, to mocking and to stunned silence. I am not going to fight for any ideological stance, or trying to figure out why Apple made the change. It is done and won’t change anytime soon, so what remains is for More >
Empathy for the Daemon, or are you a good simulator?
Mar 16th
Game designer Sid Meier, creator of the “Civilization” series of video games gave a talk recently called “The Psychology of Game Design (Everything You Know Is Wrong).” His main thesis was that game designer have to understand the player’s psychology when designing the gameplay elements and gave some examples from his games which violated player More >
I Didn’t Join the Video Games Industry to Make Glorified Random Number Generators
Mar 8th
I said that last night while discussing the state of Flash/Facebook games with my friend David. Cracked.com has a great article explaining some of the techniques video games use to keep players engaged. Notice that I said engaged, not entertained. They are two different things. Games used to want players to have fun so they More >
Cloud Computing is Just Rebranding. And That’s a Good Thing.
Mar 4th
Larry Ellison recently ranted about cloud computing at an Oracle stock holder’s meeting. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UYa6gQC14o[/youtube] Someone asked if Oracle will be in trouble since there is a big push towards cloud computing. His answer is that cloud computing is what computers and internet has always been. The technology is the same, just called different things: SaaS, More >
How iPad Multitasking Might Work
Feb 10th
There has been much complaining on the web about how iPad doesn’t support multitasking, and little analysis of why Apple doesn’t allow it. Adam C. Engst wrote up a great analysis of the types of benefits that multitasking can provide and what technology is required to achieve those benefits. I’d like to approach the question More >
Using WordPress to Build a Website – Part 2
Feb 9th
Introduction In part 1, I wrote about how to create a static home page for the top level of your website, with all of your blog related pages under “/blog” path. This article is about building out the rest of your site using static pages and adding a navigation menu by selecting the right theme. More >
Using WordPress to Build a Website – Part 1
Feb 4th
Introduction WordPress is a popular and well supported blogging platform and I’ve been using it for years for blogging. Now I am using it to build up a small website. I am getting ready to launch an iPhone application called Cloud Browse and need a web presence to promote my company and the product. Since More >
Making Games Look Fun
Oct 18th
Video games are suppose to be fun to play, but what about to watch? A famous name in Japan’s video game culture is Takahashi-meijin who’s special gift is making games look fun. In shooting games, if you want to get high scores, you shoot the enemies as soon as they appear on the screen, but More >
Game Developers Are From Mercury and Marketing Is From Neptune
Sep 20th
One of the big bogeymen in stories that developers tell each other is the “Marketing Department.” The story always ends up the same way, “and then we had to change the game … for the worse.” If you read any developer’s blogs, it is clear that most don’t hold marketing in high esteem. They are More >
Videos that Show Palin is Ready to be VP
Aug 31st
Like many people when I first heard that McCain has chosen Palin to be his VP, I was perplex and thought it was an odd choice. How can he chose someone with so little experience in the area that America needs right now, economics, international relations and fighting terrorism around the globe. After much research, More >