i’ve never (voluntarily) grown a beard or a moustache before. Puberty kind of imposed a weak ‘stache on me in my junior high days, and since i didn’t have a dad around to teach me how to shave my face, it kind of overstayed its welcome. Then later, in high school, i decided to try [...] Keep Reading

[this article was originally posted on MochiLand.com] Credits are those long, scrolling pages of text at the end of the movie that you watch just to see if the filmmakers added a special jokey tack-on scene at the end of the flick. If you read closely, you’ll see that they are the names of people [...] Keep Reading

There is a very short list of programming structures you have to learn to be reasonably comfortable in most modern object-oriented languages. Loops are one of them. It’s a great idea to back up and read Understanding Arrays if you haven’t already. The reason is that Loops and Arrays go hand-in-hand. Loops are the interface [...] Keep Reading

There is a very short list of programming structures you have to learn to be reasonably comfortable in most modern object-oriented languages. Arrays are one of them. If a variable is a bucket that can hold one thing, an array is a superbucket that can hold many things. Variable. Array. The language you use determines [...] Keep Reading

Two Christmases ago, i bought an iPod Touch 2nd generation and a MacBook to pursue iOS game development. Recently, the battery power on the iPod has been dropping dramatically. This week, it stopped charging altogether. i took the device to the Apple Store, where the Genius™ in the back told me that the iPod’s battery [...] Keep Reading