Matt

  • How to SOA an existing project

    SOA or service oriented architecture is a way of building a complex project so that each individual unit can stand alone with a documented API.  There are many benefits to taking an SOA approach to designing a complex software system. To those familiar with programming, SOA provides the same sorts of benefits as OOP but…

  • Another Game in the Queue

    On Monday this week we submitted another game to Apple for review.  This one is called Andromeda’s Savior and it should be available sometime next week in iTunes. The plan is still to push out a bunch of games very quickly. After an intense strategy meeting on Tuesday we decided to focus on a few…

  • Successful Game Launch

    Colum’s and my work on the release of Air Barons has found tremendous success!  This is a re-skin of UFO Invader with rendered 3d model graphics of WWII era planes done by the talented Colum Furey. The initial response to the game has surpassed all expectations and it has been earning a very respectable income…

  • Finding a good A/V receiver

    My 12 year old A/V receiver bit the dust last week.  It seems to have overheated and burned out some components judging by the smell. So now I’m looking for a replacement.  The first thing I learned is that the Canadian stores all price the products at about 2x what they go for on eBay…

  • Next Gen Websites

    the web 1.0 was defined by static html pages and simple cgi scripts.  Web 2.0 was marked by improvements in CSS and HTML capabilities, as well as growing influence of Javascript especially with AJAX to make things a bit more interactive. The next significant shift in the development of websites is moving a lot more…

  • Another Personal Test

    There are 3 different things you can do to affect your weight. Exercise changes Dietary changes Take drugs It is possible to take any weight management strategy and estimate percentages of effectiveness to each of these 3 categories.  You can lose weight by just exercising more, or just eating less, or doing both. I have…

  • Lines of Code Per Day Performance

    There are few arguments with programmers that can elicit such passionate hatred as a debate about measuring a programmer’s performance by tracking the number of lines of code they write per day. There are far too many variables at play which can affect a programmers ability to type code – how well they understand the…

  • Great App Challenge of 2013

    This year myself and a friend have taken up the challenge of releasing a new iPhone/iPad game every 2 weeks to hopefully have 20-25 finished games by the end of the year. The strategy is to build upon 3 different game platforms for all the games.  Each game will add one new feature to the…

  • The Great App Challenge of 2013

    UFO Invader version 2.0 is submitted to the iTunes App Store for review.  It should be published in about a week. That marks the first app for what I’m calling the Great App Challenge of 2013.  The goal is to release 20-25 Apps this year between myself and Colum.  That’s one app every 2 weeks!…

  • Hiking to the inkpots

    We’re spending a night in banff and we went on a 5 hour hike along a river and then into the mountains to some interesting coloured springs.