Matt

  • Racing to 10% BF

    In the spirit of friendly competition, Colum and I are battling to be the first to reach 10% BF.  10%BF is a lofty goal that is difficult to achieve without serious commitment.  Winning will take everything I know and doing it all at once and staying committed to a lot of exercise as well as…

  • What Do You Know Soft Launch

    A week ago we did a soft launch of the new iOS game “What Do You Know”.  With very little marketing behind it we managed to push a couple thousand downloads of the game and brought in a little bit of revenue from IAPs and advertisements.  Knock-out successes out of the gate seem to be…

  • Code Reviews: Good or Waste of Time?

    I’ve been working with a team in Pakistan for the last couple weeks on a project which is starting to reveal itself to me.  It is an iOS game that’s nearing completion and should be ready to submit next week. Perhaps it’s just that as a professional software developer it’s hard to accept sub-par quality…

  • High Performance Static Websites on Amazon S3

    I’ve been seeing more frameworks lately for generating static websites. The reason for these becoming more popular recently is the result of several developments. Cheap shared hosting is notoriously unreliable, slow servers overloaded with too many websites and hacked servers being able to infect and hack many other sites at once. The development of 3rd…

  • Exercise for Programmers

    Staying on top of your game is best accomplished by continuously learning and by ensuring you are mentally and physically at your best.  As a desk jokey it can be difficult to get enough exercise in a day so you have to be pro-active about staying in shape outside the office. For several years I…

  • Cockiness of Programmers

    There’s no doubt that programmers are lazy people.  Anything that can be automated is, copy/paste code – you got it! There is another trait of programmers that they assume because they can program in one language well, and have touched a few other languages over the years they can quickly learn a new language on…

  • Bitcoin

    Bitcoin has been in the news a lot lately and I’ve finally got into the game with a small investment to play with. Bitcoin is a new form of currency  which is technically quite ingenius but from an economic standpoint is quite unstable.  It’s basically a digital, anonymous, peer supported replacement of cash.  Each transaction…

  • Andromeda’s Savior v1.1

    A late night of coding produced the first update to Andromeda’s Savior submitted to iTunes. This new version brings a health bar, a bunch of new enemies to shoot, and much improved Game Center integration.  It also includes a check to prevent people from cracking the game and getting free upgrades.  To date there are…

  • Produce as Much as You Can

    It took a long time to really  fully appreciate the feeling you get from producing something new in this world and letting it go for sale or for free. There’s a lot of apprehension that comes with those first few products you release.  You worry about the bugs that are still there, the features you…

  • 6 Tips For a Successful Project Plan

    The difference between a successful project and one that is a dismal failure can often come down to the project plan.  There are different approaches to planning from ad hoc planning to full on gantt charts in MS Project.  I think there are some universals for developing a plan that results in a project that…