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Published a game

My buddy James and I came up with a game last year, and with the help of our friend Chris we formed a games company and published it. It’s called Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot and we’ve made an online version that we’ll be releasing pretty soon too.

Saskatoon Open Coffee Club

I’ve decided to start an Open Coffee Club in Saskatoon. You can read more about Open Coffee on their Ning site. We’ll be meeting at Broadway Roastery on Tuesday Feb 9th at 8pm. If you’re interested in chatting about startups, maybe as an entrepreneur, a developer, or just someone with an interest [...]

Mo day 20

New role

I got promoted to CTO today. Exciting stuff.

Moving day

The movers are here. Packing is on-going. Everything will soon be in a container heading off the island and across the ocean. My wife and kids are flying to her mother’s tonight, and I fly out in a couple of days (we got tickets on different flights due to some cancellations).
Thank dog [...]

Wordpress hacking

Anyone using Wordpress should beware some nasty hacks, like that recently suffered by my good friend. Creators of malware should every bone in their hands broken.  Twice.

Green fields and how to sow them

Here’s the scenario: you’re writing a green field web application. This application will be used to power more than one e-commerce site, which means that it must be easily tailored. You can use any toolset you like, and the requirements are fairly standard (e.g. exporting data to CSV, modern UI, payment gateway, [...]

Ironcoder 7 date set

The 7th Ironcoder contest was announced today (for some definition of today – damn those pesky time zones). I think this year I actually feel confident enough to take part, even if I accomplish not very much For those who have no idea what it is, each contest selects a theme [...]

syntax error before ‘AT_NAME’ token

If you happen to be using Xcode and get this somewhat baffling error message when building:
syntax error before ‘AT_NAME’ token
The problem is that you are missing an @end in some file that you’ve #imported, probably a header file. This error also shows up as “parse error …” in some versions of Xcode (took me [...]

Firefox phishing protection

Like anyone who has had the same e-mail address for 10 years, I get a lot of spam. Most of it gets filtered, by one mechanism or another. Occasionally the odd bit gets through. Unlike most people, I like to do something about it. For example, when I see Adobe CS3 for [...]