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Line Diet is Back - and Open Source!
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. A few years later...
Lessons Learned Customizing Xamarin.Forms Slide Deck
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. Over...
Word Search Little Books Featured on VerizonWireless.com
Get Word Search Little Books now! I'm very excited to see that Verizon Wireless has decided to feature my game Word Search Little Books in the App Finder on...
Word Scramble Little Books Now Available on iOS and Android
My latest game, Word Scramble Little Books is now available on the iTunes App Store and Google Play! Get it now for free in the iTunes App Store and Google...
Mapping with Xamarin Talk
Today I am giving a presentation on mapping with Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, and Xamarin.Forms as part of the Virtual Xamarin Users Group. In this talk I...
Using Custom Unwind Segues with Xamarin.iOS
As you probably know by now, I'm a huge advocate for Xamarin technologies for native iOS and Android apps. After trying to implement some custom unwind segues...
Matchingo Now Available on Windows Phone and Kindle Fire
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! With these...
Matchingo Launches on iOS and Android
Matchingo - Get it Now! I'm super excited to announce that Matchingo is live on the iTunes App Store and Google Play! Support for Windows Phone and Kindle Fire...
Cross Platform Matchingo Reboot Incoming
I'm excited to announce that Matchingo is getting a much deserved reboot. Matchingo was a game I released on the web and Windows Phone using Silverlight way...
Word Search Little Books Lands on Windows Phone
I am super excited to announce that Word Search Little Books is now available on the Windows Phone Store! That means that WSLB is now on essentially every...
Deck from 'Practical Mobile UI / UX for Developers' Talk at the Atlanta Mobile Developers Meetup
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...
Slides from 'Monetizing Mobile Games' Talk at the Atlanta Code Camp 2013
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. I've just uploaded this slide...
The Official Launch of Line Diet for iPhone
Announcing Line Diet for iPhone - huzzah! Find out all the details at LineDietApp.com. Below is some background on the project for those interested in those...
Vote for My Codestock 2013 Mobile Talks!
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....
All Mobile Everything Podcast Coming Soon
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. The podcast will...
Imagewind Now Available on iTunes App Store
I am very excited to announce that Imagewind has been released today for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. You can download Imagewind from the iTunes App Store, or...
Presentation Deck on Casual Game Development and Mobile Strategies
I just posted a copy of the deck I presented at the Windows Apps Meetup last night onto Slideshare. The talk was broken into two parts. The first part covers...
Presenting at the Windows Apps Meetup on Mobile Game Development
Sorry for the late notice, but I'll be presenting Monday at the Atlanta Windows Apps Meetup in Alpharetta. You can find out more about the meetup (which is...
Quick Overview Video of MonoTouch for C# Devs
I've been heads down coding the last few months. From writing Word Search Little Books for Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8, and iPad/iPhone, to now porting an...
Word Search Little Books Released for iPad and iPhone
I'm very excited to announce that Word Search Little Books is now available on iOS! I ported the Windows 8 version to iOS using Xamarin's MonoTouch - and it...
Announcing All Mobile Everything - My New Mobile Consultancy
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. Today I am excited...
Word Search Little Books Now Available in the Windows Store!
I'm very excited to announce that Word Search Little Books is now available for Windows 8 in the Windows Store! This marks the first app from SmartyPantsCoding...
Official Promo Video for Word Search - Little Books!
Download now at WordSearchLittleBooks.com. The official promo video for my latest game Word Search - Little Books is now on Youtube! Please check it out above....
Word Search - Little Books now available on Android!
Visit WordSearchLittleBooks.com to download now! I am very happy to announce that Word Search - Little Books, my latest game, is now available for all Android...
My New Adventure as an Independent Mobile Developer in Atlanta
It's official - I've quit my day job. I can remember ~10 years ago talking to my buddy about how one day we would be able to write killer apps that would run...
Facebook's Emerging Mobile App Strategy
In case you didn't know, there's money to be made in mobile. Not necessarily by mobile developers like you and me, but most definitely by the app stores that...
Getting Started with Adobe Brackets
Adobe Brackets is an open source editor for open standard web languages (html/css/js/less/etc). It is totally free, and is a pretty exciting editor to try out....
Off Topic: Photoshop Cleanup Timelapse
I find cleaning up and editing snapshots to be quite fun and a good break from the world from time to time. I recorded a quick Photoshop cleanup job the other...
Second Phase of the Reboot of SmartyPantsCoding.com
This weekend I rolled out large parts of the second phase of the reboot of SmartyPantsCoding.com. This time around the primary changes all centered around the...
First 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. The changes pushed today are a first step...
SmartyPantsCoding.com Reboot Coming Soon
You might have noticed that this blog has been dead as a doornail as of late. It's hard to believe it's been over a year since my last blog posting. Things...
Publishing a Windows Phone App? Enter to Win a Free Windows Phone
Have you published an app to the Windows Phone marketplace recently? Are you about to? Have you got 4 apps already in the marketplace? There is a contest going...
R.I.P. Imagewind for Windows Phone [Update - It's gone]
R.I.P. Imagewind for WP7: 3/16 - 3/30 After being in the Windows Phone marketplace for just two weeks, I am very sad to say that Imagewind for Windows Phone is...
Examples of WP7 Marketplace Certification Failures
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...
Day Long Silverlight Firestarter Streaming Live on December 2nd, 2010
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...
Announcing Smarty Pants Gaming at SmartyPantsGaming.com
It has been a very long month of working hard to knock out two launch titles for Windows Phone 7 - Hungry Castaway and Matchingo. I have just put up a new site...
How to Customize Your XNA Game Tile on the Windows Phone 7 Start Page
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...
A Cheat Sheet for Unit Testing Silverlight Apps on Windows Phone 7
I've been planning on writing a quick overview of the basics of unit testing in Silverlight for a while now. Since Windows Phone 7 is the hot topic now, and...
Animating a Silverlight Object's Embed Size Using jQuery or MooTools
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 ...
Quick Tip: Windows Phone 7 Preprocessor Directive
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...
UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone v2.0 Released
An updated version of the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone was posted on the Windows Phone 7 forums today. There is also a big collection of...
Updated Video of Hungry Castaway - An XNA Game for Windows Phone 7
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...
A Simple Twitter Panel in Silverlight
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 figured since this is...
Awarded Silverlight MVP for 2010!
I am very excited to say that I've been awarded the 2010 Microsoft MVP Award in Silverlight! It is very humbling to now carry the same title as many of my...
Pre-Alpha Videos of My Windows Phone 7 Games in Development
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. Most...
June's Grab Bag of Fun
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...
Choosing Between Silverlight and XNA for a Windows Phone 7 Game
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...
Creating a Windows Phone 7 XNA Game in Landscape Orientation
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 just...
Speaking at CodeStock 2010
I am very stoked to say that I've been selected to speak at CodeStock 2010 in Knoxville, TN on June 25th and 26th. I'll be doing a revamped version of my...