Trying out new programming languages is fun, building Io on Windows is not. The Io language is developed on Mac OS X and it shows. There are no binary builds and you need a fairly standard *nix based system to compile it. Here are the steps to get Io running on Windows (and why you [...]
It has finally happened. Streamhead now has a Facebook page. The idea has been growing on me for a few months now, but yesterday I reached some kind of threshold and just got on with it. Very fashionably late. Why now you wonder? And how did it work out? Well, I’m glad you asked.
I just purchased the two Monkey Island games that are on sale for the iPhone right now. They are currently 99 cents each. They are also brilliant adaptations, so you should get them right away. It got me thinking if and how one is to make a living out of selling 99 cent applications. It’s [...]
Call them micro businesses, lifestyle entrepreneurs or whatever you like. The shear act of creating your own 1 (or very few) person business that can sustain you and allow you to do the things you want to do, has inspired many people over the years. Now, with the advent of the Internet and software, it [...]
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you probably already know that I like to do everything myself. It’s both for the satisfaction of having done it yourself and to save money. But recently I’ve discovered that it can be a wise decision to invest in quality services offered by others. For instance, [...]
Many little boys dream of going to space, watching the earth from up there and floating around in zero gravity. Thanks to the Internet, it is now possible to get closer to their dream than ever before. In a case of brilliant marketing, or just plain too much money, NASA is really in the loop [...]
A few weeks ago, I mentioned my new way of tracking my budget and also figured that there’s one gaping hole: importing bank statements. This is part 1, where I create a simple parser for bank statements provided by my bank in CSV format.
Today, I have a number of news items that have caught my attention over the last month: YouTube finally evolves out of the computer room, NASA uses yet more tricks to get us excited about their missions, making money with Flash and JavaScript everywhere (this last one is for techies). It’s just a small sampling [...]
You might not notice it, but this is the first post written on the 3.0 version of WordPress. The fact that you’re not noticing, is testimony for how smooth the upgrade went. Obviously I didn’t upgrade to keep the exact same blog. There are some big enhancements that will enable a bunch of ideas I’ve [...]
… is to write a program. So in my quest to study Python, I was looking for something to create. Enter JayIsGames’s Casual Gameplay Design Competition, previously mentioned and much loved. Sadly they only allow games that run in a browser, but that’s not going to hold me back. I’m going to jump that hurdle [...]