Animal Escape

I’ve just released a little match 3 game I’ve been working on, just in time for Xmas. I’ll post a more technical post later, but it feels pretty good actually releasing a game. I’ve started about eleventy billion in the past, but never really progressed past the prototype or early mechanic test phase. A couple […]

Using Android Jetpack Navigation with Navigation Drawers

To me, the best thing to come out of Google IO (for Android devs) is definitely Jetpack A bunch of well thought out components and patterns to help Android dev can’t be a bad thing, AMIRITE? Anywho, I find the best way to learn something new is to try it by creating a working app. […]

Unity 2017.x

Way back in the deep dark days of my teenage years, there was this little operating system called MS-DOS 5.0. You may recall it. It’s the one that allowed expanded memory. Man. I could hack a config.sys with the best of them. Anywho. Along with sweet, sweet expanded (and extended) memory there were CPU rendered […]

8 Years for me too, and a bit of introspection

Reading this: http://gavinbowman.tumblr.com/post/153913496028/8-years , got me thinking, and it’s been (almost) 8 years since I introduced my first iPhone app too. That app was Hundred Pushups, that I did in conjunction with the excellent Steve Speirs. I had zero expectations of the app really. I am a bit of a historian of the computer industry, […]

My 10 word review of Xamarin Forms

It’s great. You should try it. Especially for xPlat apps.

CocoaPods won’t install under OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) ?

If you’re having issues getting Cocoapods to install in El Cap try this answer here: How to get Pods to work in 10.11

My 10 word iPhone 6s review

Pretty mint, but don’t bother if you have a 6

Up git Street without a paddle

I recently updated OSX to El Capitain (10.11). Over all I think it’s a great update. Nothing stellar, but stabilises a lot of stuff from Mav. It did stuff up my merge tool of choice in git though. I prefer diffmerge to the standard on OSX which is filemerge. The fix took me a while […]

Quick ways to get out of the git

Always have to search Stackoverflow for these git tips, so thought I would bang them into one place. How to merge either all local or all remote changes Single File git checkout –ours filename.c git checkout –theirs filename.c git add filename.c git commit -m “using theirs” Or for all files git checkout –ours . git […]