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How I finally got around to rebuilding this site after nearly a decade — it only took an AI revolution in development for me to finally have the time to get it done.

Get it now, or check out the project on Github Back in July of 2013 I released an app called Line Diet for iPhone written using Xamarin.iOS.

I was invited to speak at the Atlanta Xamarin Users Group this week, and I decided to share a bit about the Xamarin.Forms work I've been doing of late.

Get Word Search Little Books now!

My latest game, Word Scramble Little Books is now available on the iTunes App Store and Google Play!

Today I am giving a presentation on mapping with Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, and Xamarin.Forms as part of the Virtual Xamarin Users Group.

As you probably know by now, I'm a huge advocate for Xamarin technologies for native iOS and Android apps.

I am super excited to say that Matchingo is now available in all major mobile app stores including the Windows Phone Store and the Amazon App Store!

Matchingo - Get it Now!

I'm excited to announce that Matchingo is getting a much deserved reboot.

I am super excited to announce that Word Search Little Books is now available on the Windows Phone Store!

I was lucky enough to get to present at the Atlanta Mobile Developers Group earlier this week where I talked about sketching, wireframing, and other user...

I had a great time this weekend at the Atlanta Code Camp where I had the opportunity to give a talk on Monetizing Mobile Games.

Announcing Line Diet for iPhone - huzzah!

If you live in the Southeast and are a coder (or interested in being one) then hopefully you already know about Codestock hosted annually in Knoxville, TN....

This is just an early heads up that I'll be launching a new mobile-centric podcast later next week called the All Mobile Everything Podcast.

I am very excited to announce that Imagewind has been released today for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.

I just posted a copy of the deck I presented at the Windows Apps Meetup last night onto Slideshare.

Sorry for the late notice, but I'll be presenting Monday at the Atlanta Windows Apps Meetup in Alpharetta.

I've been heads down coding the last few months.

I'm very excited to announce that Word Search Little Books is now available on iOS!

Back in late September I wrote a blog post about how I had quit my day job to pursue my own dreams of being an independent mobile developer.

I'm very excited to announce that Word Search Little Books is now available for Windows 8 in the Windows Store!

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It's official - I've quit my day job.

In case you didn't know, there's money to be made in mobile.

Adobe Brackets is an open source editor for open standard web languages (html/css/js/less/etc).

I find cleaning up and editing snapshots to be quite fun and a good break from the world from time to time.

This weekend I rolled out large parts of the second phase of the reboot of SmartyPantsCoding.com.

I'm very happy to report that today I've deployed the first set of changes for the reboot of SmartyPantsCoding.com.

You might have noticed that this blog has been dead as a doornail as of late.

Have you published an app to the Windows Phone marketplace recently?

R.I.P.

I have now made it through a baker's dozen Windows Phone Marketplace certification attempts for SmartyPantsGaming, and thought I would share the various ways...

An all day free Silverlight Firestarter is coming up on December 2nd, and you can watch it live from the comfort of your own home (or attend in person if...

It has been a very long month of working hard to knock out two launch titles for Windows Phone 7 - Hungry Castaway and Matchingo.

Currently if you build an XNA game and run it on the WP7 emulator you'll note that once you exit the program, it isn't listed in the main application list like...

I've been planning on writing a quick overview of the basics of unit testing in Silverlight for a while now.

If you're sharing common code between Windows Phone 7 and other platforms in either Silverlight or XNA, then you may run into a need to fork some code based on...

One of the projects I'm working on right now requires having a Silverlight object on a page grow to be larger and shrink to be smaller as its containing ...

An updated version of the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone was posted on the Windows Phone 7 forums today.

Two weeks ago in my post Pre-Alpha Videos of My Windows Phone 7 Games in Development I posted a short video of a game called 'Hungry Castaway' that I am...

While sitting on the couch last weekend, I had the idea for putting up a Twitter panel on my site - you should see it off to the right.

I am very excited to say that I've been awarded the 2010 Microsoft MVP Award in Silverlight!

It has been mentioned a few times in the last month or so that if you want a Windows Phone 7 test device, then you need to be showing why you deserve one.

The last month or so has been pretty hectic both at work and in my personal life - but rather than make excuses or promise to blog more frequently, I'll...

In my last blog post on XNA for Windows Phone 7 I said that I was working on a game in both Silverlight and XNA, and that if I got a chance to test out...

Update 07/14/2010: With the latest Beta release of the Windows Phone 7 Tools there is now built in support for landscape games in XNA Game Studio 4.0.

I am very stoked to say that I've been selected to speak at CodeStock 2010 in Knoxville, TN on June 25th and 26th.