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Continue reading →: Thanks for having me, TechRanch
I want to post a big thanks to TechRanch of Bozeman, Montana for inviting me to speak on Facebook app development. We withstood a brief hail storm and had no technical difficulties. I was very pleased with the turnout and hope everyone got a great overview of how to leverage…
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Continue reading →: Escaping the Walled Garden With Javascript
I actually enjoyed the hours I spent logging my favorite books into the weRead app on Facebook. Reminiscing about those quirky scifi novels I read when I was younger was nice. The promise of seeing what my friends have read and how we match up with ratings was good motivation.…
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Continue reading →: My Favorite Things: Whiteboards, Good Coffee, iPhone Apps, Facebook GamesA whiteboard in your workspace is essential. I do a lot of design work on sketch paper (lines get in my way) but having a whiteboard in my office gives me the power to let my imagination run wild. I just take a picture with my phone and share it…
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Continue reading →: Games without frontiers: Windows Mobile 7
With the recent announcement of Windows Phone 7 Launch Game Line-Up it’s clear Microsoft wants WP7 to contend with iPhone as a serious gaming platform. I don’t think they have a chance. “If looks could kill they probably will.” – Peter Gabriel It’s all about looks and performance. The iPhone…
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Continue reading →: Javascript calendar date picker
This is my first stab at a light-weight popup date picker in Javascript with calendar view. It should be easy to add to an existing form control and low impact to the formatting of the page. To satisfy these two requirements the script should be self-contained in a single js…
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Continue reading →: The Facebook Test Console only…
The Facebook Test Console only seems to work some of the time. Am I the only one? http://developers.facebook.com/tools/ http://tprt.us/fb
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Continue reading →: Climate Tracker
Ascentium, an interactive web design agency, asked me to design a dynamic interface for their Climate Tracker project. The tool was an ambitious set of data capture, unit conversion, carbon emission estimation features. My task was to make one of the most complicated features (data capture) simple and logical even…
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Continue reading →: RESTful Texas Holdem Game
Working with a few very talented designers and developers in Seattle we were given the task of building a Flash-based Texas Holdem game for a competition. The concept was simple: players log in to play with fake money, the contest runs for a few weeks and the player with the…
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Continue reading →: Cheatproof Texas Holdem Game
Working with a few very talented designers and developers in Seattle we were given the task of building a Flash-based Texas Holdem game for a competition. The concept was simple: players log in to play with fake money, the contest runs for a few weeks and the player with the…
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Continue reading →: Twitter for Teachers
While working at Microsoft I had the opportunity to work on the Text My Class project in the education product group. Modeled after Twitter, this app was designed to help teachers to manage the ever-changing list of contacts in each class. After subscribing to a text message request students would…
