Monthly Archives August 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-31

Enjoyed a great day out with Kathy yesterday: marvelous food, spectacular thunderstorms, tubing, and good music. # Driving those things around looks like big fun. http://twitpic.com/2iefi0 # Attending Lone Star Ruby Conference today. Nerdvana! # Squee! There's a Tesla roadster in the parking lot! http://twitpic.com/2ip2ms # Welcome to 'Anytime Except Now Fitness'! http://twitpic.com/2j48ra # Yay! [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-24

Reading through a collection of Philip K. Dick short stories is making me want to re-rent all the movies based on them. #fb # Do other states have gravestones shaped like them or is that uniquely Texan? http://twitpic.com/2ggfwa # My morning Lego effort. http://twitpic.com/2guszz # First day of school in San Marcos! Hope it's a [...]

Another Short, Good Talk on Gaming in Real Life

Seth Priebatsch, the CEO of SCVNGR, a company developing an interesting eponymous location-based gaming platform, gave a talk at TED recently. He covered some interesting ground, including a few game design patterns with in-game and real-world examples. If you’re as interested in this stuff as I am, it’s worth 12 minutes of your time: Is [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-17

Out watching the meteors! #fb # At the zoo! (where someone told me it's all happening.) #fb # Ridiculously geeky? Yes! Do I love it? Also Yes! http://blitl.us/zBZk #fb # Powered by Twitter Tools

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-10

My lovely bride made orange/date chutney today, and it rocks. Also! Date night at the river, frogurt, and then the movies. #fb # Enjoying a delicious Boca burger. With real bacon. #fb # Sothat's* where they keep them! http://twitpic.com/2c83kv # Celebrating Abigail's 14th birthday. (14? I'm certain she skipped a few years somewhere.) # My [...]

Ditching Titanium

Back in March, I posted my Thoughts on Titanium, which we were using at the time to develop Texas State’s iPhone application. Since that time, we’ve become increasingly frustrated with the system, and have finally decided to leave it behind and rewrite the application in a combination of native Objective C code and HTML/CSS/Javascript. This [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-03

Feeding the critters with Maggie. http://twitpic.com/297w0i # Movies in the Park. Classic Rock. Friendly crowd. Maxfield Parrish skies. Nice. http://twitpic.com/29arki # If I had a wolf suit like Max's in a grown-up size, I'd totally wear it. Let the wild rumpus start! #fb # My lovely wife has apparently become a fully-naturalized southerner: there's a [...]