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PlusContact live in the App Store!
Just a quick post to announce that my first iPhone application – PlusContact – went live on the App Store today! PlusContact is a nifty little utility that makes it easier to add a new contact to the...
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Life on the App Store – one week later
It’s….pretty quiet. The release day for my app wound up being swamped by more than 40 other apps released in the same category – pushing PlusContact back to page 3. A miserable position for what was...
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Unit testing in XCode. Using Git with ProjectLocker (or at all). Using Eclipse for C++ development. These and many other things had been lingering on my todo list far too long before they actually...
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On Android and the iPhone
The smartphone market is leading to a big battle. On one side, a million starry-eyed Apple fanbois and the behemoth that is the iPhone. On the other side, the freedom and flexibility of Google’s...
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Agile Musings
I’ve been writing my own code using Test Driven Development (TDD) for about 6 months now, and at the same time have found myself professionally working for two different non-games firms. In this time...
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Unit Testing Matrices
A quick few pointers this week on writing unit tests for 4×4 matrices. I’m building myself a vector math library, and using Test Driven Development to make it. I only get about an hour on the way to...
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Playing with others
After a long period of being injured, I’m beginning my foray back into the world of parkour. It seems like no matter how often I seem to make mistakes and hurt myself during this sport, I keep coming...
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Sat down on the bus today – 458 errors. Most of them hidden deep within system files like windef.h and excpt.h. Man, I must have reaaaaally been using something wrong. Maybe it was that _getcwd POSIX...
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I had intended this week to be a treatise on the benefits and drawbacks of some of the distributed version control systems I’ve used recently, but instead it has become necessary for me to discuss a...
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Distributed Version Control showdown
To quickly catch up those people why don’t keep up with the latest advances in programming technology, Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) are the latest craze, a version control where every...
View ArticlePopping the iPhone Bubble
I read a very interesting article this week. For those put off by the wall of text that the link is, I’ll summarize it thus: the author analyses all the available data on App Store sales to calculate...
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