Matt
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Going to be a Great Year
I have a feeling that 2013 is going to be a great year. A real turning point. My achievement goals for the year is to create a top notch Farmville type game for iOS and to do a kitchen renovation. This year there is a real potential for my businesses to take off and give…
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What to do with a Raspberry Pi
I’m trying to think of some ideas for what to do with a Raspberry Pi. There’s just so many things that people have done with these little $35 computers that it is overwhelming to think of what to do with one. Here’s a list of ideas I’ve scoured from the web: Webcam server Vehicle tracking…
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Good Christmas Break
It was a nice relaxing week off for christmas this year. Having friends around to host parties made everything more festive. The week was bitterly cold with a streak of -30 degree temperatures for the week. It made the deepfried Christmas turkey a bit harder to cook. Thankfully the cold snap is over for now…
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App Business Milestone
With the recent addition of a new advertising platform for my apps the last few days have tipped the business passed a small milestone of having a $50 day. Even though it’s just a seasonal spike from all the advertising prices raising due to the holidays it’s still nice. Across all my apps there are…
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New Living Room
We made some design changes to the living room over the last while. Painted the walls and put up curtains. Before: After:
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A Live Text Chat Server
I’m facing the challenge of building a live chat server for use in a mobile app. It is an interesting bit of code to write and I’m finding myself learning a few new things to get it working. My first thought was to build it using websockets over HTTP but that looked too difficult to…
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A Productive Christmas Break?
There’s just so much work to be done that I’m really going to have to strive for a very productive month of programming. I need to update all my apps for the new year and hopefully launch a few new ones. To that end I’m planning on taking some more time off work over the…
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Progress on New Game
So the new game is going to be called Tycho City. It’s based on building a lunar base and battling other bases for the moon’s valuable resources. There’s a mix of two styles of gameplay the first is the simulation of the moon base with building and upgrading mines and energy collectors. The second is…
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iAd Download Script
Unfortunately Apple doesn’t have a nice easy API for downloading your revenue numbers from iAds. The only way around that right now is screen scraping the information, or manually downloading the reports. Thanks to the awesome python requests library I was able to put something together in just 50 lines of code. It’s a function…
