A blog about things that interest me.
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Triangle TweetUp and local developers
I’ve been to the triangle TweetUp hosted by Bronto for three years running. It is a great time and place to catchup with twitter friends, learn about cool things going on, and drink some good local beers. This year it included a mini ignite section, where six people got up and did five minute lightning…
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IBM impact and mobile
As part of my day job, I work for IBM. Full disclosure, I work in the Rational software brand. As part of my job, I am focused on mobile development. To that end, I was able to go the IBM Impact in Las Vegas, Nevada this part week. It was amazing to see the number…
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Cross platform vs. Performance
I’ve been working with a small team to build a cross platform game leveraging the Cocos2D gaming engine on iOS. I chose this platform for a few reasons: 1) There is a really good book explaining the basics of game programming and the libraries. 2) There seems to be a good number of other people…
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Games on rails
The popularity of the unreal engine on iOS can be seen by the success of games like Infinity Blade and Batman Arkham City. These games are bringing the excitement of combat games to that little device in your pocket; however these games are primarily another example of games on rails. Guiding your players thru a…
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Are you Retina Ready?
Now that the new iPad has been around for over a month (has it really been that long?), have you started updating your apps to be retina ready for the iPad? What are your best tips for doing so? Are you just re-rendering all your graphics?