I’m still slowly replacing all of my 3rd-party services with open-source alternatives. Lately, I’ve been using Kaiten (K-9 derivative) for email, RoundCube and Thunderbird for email, WordPress for blogging, and Evernote for notes. Until this week, Evernote had been the one glaring exception in my “host on your own server” cloud services list. That job is now being done by an open source project called OpenNote.
Saints Row (2006) is one of the reasons I still own an Xbox 360. For fans of the series, it’s the only way to experience the start of the 3rd Street Saints adventure. Does it hold up still, 7 years later?
I don’t often post up about what I’m doing in the industry. Hell these past few weeks I haven’t posted up much at all. I’m sure my readers are wondering why I haven’t posted a game review in almost as long. The answers are twofold:
That’s right, I’ve officially “made it big” as an (open source) app developer. Why? Not because I’m going on 70 (open-source) apps in the app store, nor because of the revenue they generate. Nope nope. Not because many folks take my application packages and re-package them for their own app stores. That happens to everyone. Not even because people fork and follow and maybe compile all the source code I push up on GitHub. Hell, it’s not even because I sometimes get paid quite well to contribute/create open source libraries.
Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble is an indie PC game that bills itself as a classic board game.
One of my most popular android apps “Easy Graph Paper” hasn’t had an update in a while. Earlier today I received an email with a cool feature request (background images for graphs) so I thought I’d get that happening today while I’m relaxing on my day off.
When I was 9 years old it was 1990. I was renting Demon Sword for the second time. Prior to this the only games I rented more than once were Zelda 2 and Mario 2, for I had the first...
Crashlytics is a slick and remarkably easy automatic crash reporting service that integrates tightly with your existing IDE. I had a chance to beta test their newest version, and I must say it is the absolute easiest and fastest way to add crash reporting to your app. Trust me, for someone who has 70 apps in the app store speed and ease of setup become critical. A twelve minute process cut down to two doesn’t sound like much for one app. Multiply that by 70, and you’re saving literally days of work.
I did not have an Atari when I was young. My first console was the NES, so I have never played Pitfall on a console. I did play it on my friends commodore 64, a machine which holds a very special place in my heart as the first machine I ever typed a computer program into, way back in the late 1980s.
The year was 2005, and it was spring. I had been working at my first post-graduate programming job for about 2 years, and my PC was an aging Pentium-3 600. My graphics card, a Geforce TNT-2 that had managed to sustain me on (very) light gaming until then. It was time for an upgrade. Why? Doom 3 was coming out.
