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2010 in Review

It’s that time of year, and for once I thought it might be rewarding to reflect on the achievements of the last year inspired by similar yearly posts from Seth Godin and Kevin Rose amongst others… In some kind of order: - Learnt Java and the Android SDK - Built and launched a popular Android game, Fish Food - Became involved in the local tech scene, in particular StartupMill -...

Jan 1st

“We have been so successfully brainwashed by the idea that we shouldn’t know what...”

– Cintra Wilson

Dec 8th

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'Headline' Chrome Extension

Headline is a chrome extension I developed in an evening. It brings the speed and simplicity of google reader to the rest of the web by enabling the same keyboard shortcuts on normal websites. This extension will help if you find yourself using the google reader shortcuts around the web. Currently available are: j/k = selects the next/previous article on the page n/p = selects the next/previous...

Dec 7th

jQuery Distribute Plugin

Just created my first public repo on github and outed my first public jQuery plugin… A bit of a seminal moment so it deserves a very small blog post. Check it out here: Distribute jQuery Plugin Edit: Documentation and Demo here.

Nov 14th

Oct 27th

“The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed...”

– Max Levchin (Cofounder, PayPal)

Sep 14th

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though...”

– Theodore Roosevelt

Jun 19th

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Apr 26th

Bugs: Squashed.

I might as well resign myself to these updates being weekly, but hey better weekly than not at all! I have had a great week working on the game and received a ton of assets, I would say that Fish Food is now 95% complete. Although in the last post I had hoped to focus on the side screens, instead I have worked on making the game rock-solid, halved the loading and resuming times and added saving,...

Mar 17th

Mar 8th

Last night I bought the domain fishfoodgame.com in preparation for adding future highscore tables and promoting the game. No going back on the name now, not after spending $6 dollars…

Feb 20th

What does three hours on a Tuesday get you?

Lots of progress! I think the final bugs with compatibility across devices have been resolved, the game seems to run in a selection of emulators at different resolutions fine now - of course the real test will be when I acquire an actual phone to test it on.. In other news, completed tonight: Added the code for a ‘bomb’ or ‘mine’ creature that when triggered wipes out all...

Feb 16th

Feb 14th

A weeks work

I don’t feel as though I have been terribly productive over the last week, but the time that has been spent working on the game / engine has resolved a few niggling issues that we’re there as a result of my inexperience with Android and Java. In no particular order, the items I have managed to complete this week: Flexible resolution support, the game should now be supported across a...

Feb 14th

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Feb 2nd

Android Development

So, i have been meaning to post about android development since i started playing around two weeks ago and only just got around to it. The idea was to create a development diary and although it is a little late - better than never! I have decided to bet some money and resources on Android becoming popular throughout 2010 and beyond by creating some games for the platform. I have zero experience...

Jan 31st

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Jan 10th

Just arrived back in Sheffield after my Christmas break.. the day job starts again tomorrow :-( Both cadyou and my personal homepage are currently offline which sucks, apparently my hosts are replacing the motherboard! In other uninteresting news i seem to have fixed a few memory leaks in the topdown engine, and will be putting it online for people to play with just as soon as there are some...

Jan 4th

back?

A bit of a hiatus mainly due to Christmas time with family and friends.. but also not knowing what to post about as i am currently doing little bits on various projects! I fixed a huge stumbling block on the top-down engine yesterday which was causing objects to spawn late and ‘pop up’ on screen. Unfortunately even simple sounding issues like this are becoming complex in the engine as...

Dec 30th

Dec 21st

Using your browser URL history to estimate gender →

I am 100% male… apparently (via gtmcknight)

Dec 15th

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Dec 9th

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“So entrepreneurship is a dangerous field, he said. The difference between being...”

– http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2008/12/03/how-to-spot-a-breakthrough-tips-from-early-amazon-investor-nick-hanauer/

Dec 5th

Cadyou: All Tags →

Just knocked up a ‘tags’ cloud on Cadyou that updates showing all tags on the site with the most popular being the largest. Ok, its a bit dated.. but well. whatever.

Dec 3rd

Watch

As always Gary, spot on. Now to round up that four person team :-)

Dec 2nd

Nov 29th

2 Days Left to Vote! →

My arcade shooter, finished earlier in the year ‘Fracture 2’ has been nominated for the FHM Web Arcade awards… please vote!

Nov 28th

“My friend Stewart Brand, who is now 69, has been arranging his life in blocks of...”

– Conceptual Trends and Current Topics I just calculated the day of my own death.. and it’s scary having a date: Tuesday, 9 October 2063

Nov 28th

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Nov 7th

Horrible Cadyou bugfix.

Ouch, I started uploading some of the larger files as zipped archives to cadyou.com a couple of weeks ago and failed to test that.. err downloading them actually worked! Turns out i messed up the support slightly and zips were downloading in different formats - making them unreadable without changing the extension to .zip! Thanks to a tipster i have fixed the bug today - so yay… download...

Nov 6th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-2) →

Caspa & Rusko Kidkanevil Mogwai Bloc Party The Album Leaf Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nov 2nd

Oct 28th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-26) →

Evil Nine Mogwai Mystery Jets Röyksopp Bag Raiders Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 26th

Oct 22nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-19) →

Röyksopp Van She Mr. Oizo Crystal Castles Mystery Jets Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 19th

Oct 13th

stop dreaming

Here’s an entrepreneur’s effort diet. Go through the list and decide whether or not it’s worth it. Or make up your own diet. Effort is a choice, at least make it on purpose: Delete 120 minutes a day of ‘spare time’ from your life. This can include TV, reading the newspaper, commuting, wasting time in social networks and meetings. Up to you. Spend the 120 minutes doing this instead: ...

Oct 9th

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Chemical Brothers - Denmark One day these guys...

Oct 6th