Category: Life

  • Dents for 2010-09-28

    @cassidyjames Sorry for late reply. Working on some code for custom backgrounds for a client’s app. Not using some paint program that is. # @cassidyjames That said, there is some powerful image manipulation API in the SDK. So one could build a pretty decent Android paint app. #

  • Dents for 2010-09-16

    Stayed up late last night to finish editing Negotiation. Submitted to #365Tomorrows and hoping it’ll be my first non-self-published piece. # Getting my #scifi short Negotiation from 800 to below 600 words was painful. I prefer longer formats. #writing #365Tomorrows # Sometimes the Have-Big-Sword-Will-Cut is the right technique to programming. #programming #rant #

  • Gliders, Italy and Androids

    What an incredible summer and it is funny how it all started.  I found myself without a job at the end of April.  A week or two later I started a crazy schedule of fencing, archery and hiking amongst the usual day-to-days at home.  I even got to try out some serious tree climbing and…

  • Dents for 2010-08-25

    Dusted off the tablet to sign off on the contract. Looks like I’ll working as a mobile developer now. Sweet. #work #mobile #dev #

  • Dents for 2010-08-24

    Interesting game that is Love. Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. # Time for a coffee and getting ready for a busy day ahead. #

  • Old is the New New

    Or at least it seems that way. After all the fun that was summer, it looks like I will be going back my old pace of life and digs. So does that mean? First of all, no real changes in my life at the present. The world changes around me. I feel like I am…

  • Dents for 2010-08-20

    Well interview one didn’t go so well. But interview two was great! Still I need to do some more skills development and portfolio work. #

  • Interviews and a Taste for the Rising Sun

    Yesterday (today since I haven’t gone to sleep yet), was one heck of a busy day. The kind folks at Hireglyphics managed to setup two interviews today. One with a major interactive agency in downtown Toronto, another with a mobile/web development house in Mississauga. The first interview could of gone better. But I should of…

  • Dents for 2010-08-08

    Playing the part of tourist this week. (Tourist takes monster’s picture for 10 HP and 1000 XP) (Gotta love nethack.) #

  • Dents for 2010-07-28

    Here we go… Powering through emails now. # What if you were a sapient robot and your job just changed? http://www.365tomorrows.com/07/22/a-fresh-start/ #SciFi #365Tomorrows # What if dark matter ruined your day. Could you survive an optimist? http://www.365tomorrows.com/07/23/lemonade/ #SciFi #365Tomorrows # Ahh, the power of FOSS: The FFMPEG devs outdo Google at their own VP8 codec:…