I took the last couple of weeks off from writing posts here, but I made up for it by writing a ton of code. Over the last 2-3 weeks I finished 2 projects and started another. The first project I finished was Mongoose Loves Mangoes for Windows Phone 7. It was finally released on June…

I’m not sure what snapped in my head recently, but since I moved from my last rented townhouse to this new one I’ve been wanting to just ‘do’ things to the place. Being a rental property, I can’t (and don’t really want to) do anything too permanent, but I’ve got a couple DIY projects that…

I just spent the better part of the morning trying to update a Live Tile’s Background and BackBackground image in WP7. The reason it took more than the 5 minutes it should have taken is because most people who paste code on development blogs put too much weight into their assumptions about what other people…

I’ve been making sure I put work in daily on ‘Mongoose Loves Mangos’, because it’s very easy to procrastinate when you’re home alone. I made a short youtube video of where I’m at so far, which you’ll see is a long way since the last video update: Other than the awesome artwork I’ve been getting…

I’ve been a bit busy organizing all the junk I’ve accumulated over time because I’m in the middle of preparing to move again. The good news is it’s a short move, just a couple doors over, so there is no rush to get everything packed and into a truck. We’re just hauling stuff over as…

I’ve been having a small issue with my iOS game development for a while that’s using the COCOS2D framework. Since the start of development I wanted to make sure I supported the retina display. For the most part, I had no problem adding the double resolution images with the -hd filename suffix (COCOS2d doesn’t use…

I don’t know why I’m so angry, but the last couple of days every little piece of bad or stupid news has just set me off. It started with seeing headshot after headshot during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and now it’s with a news story about Google warning about the web not being ‘open’ enough.…

So I am working on another app just to get some free stuff. It is a recurring theme for me, and it’s how I started off developing apps. My first app was PlayCreator for the Blackberry Playbook. The reason I wrote it was because RIM was going to send me a Playbook for free if…

I’m starting to see a very disturbing trend with mobile casual gaming: free apps that require in-app payments to speed along game play. The latest game that I came across is Scarface for iOS. It follows the now familiar playbook of creating structures, waiting X amount of time to collect money from said structures and…

I made a spur of the moment decision earlier this week to attend a Microsoft Windows Phone 7 app development workshop. It took place yesterday and it was essentially a quick walkthrough on how to start a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) app, a breakdown of the different kinds of apps and templates available and an…