While speaking with a co-worker today, the topic of OS X being unavailable for use in VirtualBox led to a tangentially related discussion regarding Apple’s licensing restrictions for OS X. We shared the same sentiment: If Microsoft were to require users to purchase a PC from them as the only method to acquire their operating [...]

The Japanese Alphabet Study Guide iOS app is now on sale until the end of the year. Check it out.

Today marks two weeks of availability in the app store for my Japanese Alphabet Study Guide app and I thought I’d share my experience and what I’ve learned regarding iOS software development. You can read about the rationale for creating the app, etc., if you’d like, via my guest post at JapanGaku. It’s not too [...]

I don’t normally do “status updates”, but it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, so I’ll go ahead and do one. The past year has been kind of crazy, a lot of stuff going on. I’ve moved to ASP.Net C# as my primary back-end development language, although I still use PHP for most projects. [...]

Jack Doyle is a genius (Grant Skinner also deserves mention, a genius in his own right). TweenLite (and TweenMax, and TweenNano, and Tween…) proves, yet again, that it is the best ActionScript tweening engine in the world. I haven’t been this excited about a tweening engine in a while. Check out the new features of [...]

Introduction and Disclaimer Before I begin I should probably mention that this will take quite a bit of time, potentially up to an hour or more; so make sure you set aside enough time to do this. Also, I’d like to point out that Media Temple has an excellent tutorial and the official documentation may [...]

I’m not entirely sure what it takes to be considered a “Computer Geek” or “Computer Nerd” (whichever/whatever), but I think I may have crossed that line. I was reading “C for Dummies” by Dan Gookin and around page 210 he mentioned the origin of the name “C++” (check it out on Wikipedia), and I found [...]