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A Better In App Purchase Model 26 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
A couple years ago I gave my girlfriend one of the best christmas gifts she’d ever gotten. It was a pair of tickets for a full day at the spa. The catch was that she had to gift the other ticket to on...
The Web Sucks 22 Aug 2013 | 01:32 am
I’ve been bouncing around between working on native Applications and web apps for the last few years. Having experience with the state of the art in both areas of software development. One thing I hav...
Webservers with Go 9 Aug 2013 | 11:49 pm
Recently reading a discussion on Hacker News about the performance of various languages/frameworks for web server tasks got me thinking about trying to learn something new. I have lots experience wit...
What Do You Know Soft Launch 2 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
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 ...
What Do You Know 23 Jul 2013 | 12:31 am
What Do You Know? This is the product of my first experience with outsourced development. What Do You Know is a simple iOS game where the player guesses what word matches the pictures shown. We picke...
Code Reviews: Good or Waste of Time? 14 Jul 2013 | 09:12 am
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 ne...
Competition is Fierce 4 Jul 2013 | 12:17 am
Our market economy is built around the premise that competition makes everything more efficient and better over time. For most products and services a careful analysis of the competitors is very impor...
Diving into Outsourcing 26 Jun 2013 | 12:40 am
As a fairly good programmer it’s hard for me to hand off coding projects for others to do. But recently the workload on my plate has far outpaced my ability to complete the work in a reasonable time ...
High Performance Static Websites on Amazon S3 17 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
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 u...
Diving Into Core Data 3 Jun 2013 | 09:26 pm
I’m currently working on an iOS game that has a heavy data requirement which is more than I want to stuff into a plist file or manually encode all of the data types. It is the type of task that Core D...
