Ownership verses Subscription Over the past few years a number of businesses, startups and organisations are increasingly releasing products, services through a subscription method; where patrons would pay a nominal fee for access to services. Subscriptions, from a business perspective, reflect regular income streams; and may increase branding, fans, etc. However; one downside is that you never own […]
MDI – A retrospective Some time ago I wanted to write an article to retrospectively review my time on the 2018 Multidisciplinary innovation masters at Northumbria University; however I never seemed to have the time. I wanted to give an overview of what the course was about, what did we as students actually do, and give some thoughts for […]
Why does travelling to Sunderland by public transport take so damn long? If you live in Tyneside area you’ll know that its a real pain to get anywhere south of the river using public transport. Your only options are to sit on the Metro for 45-90 minutes as it stops at every stop going around the system before you finally get to your destination in Sunderland; worse […]
Swift 3 – Using .map to walk through and create an array of items with offset Sometimes I want to create a quick way to add a number of items with a name; such as creating 10 decks with an offset number. Usually this can be done like this; // usual way; var decks : [Deck] = [Deck]() for idx in 1…10 { decks.append( Deck.init(name: “#\(idx)”) ) } But I find […]
Scarface PS2 – Retrospective review Recently I’ve been re-playing the 2006 Playstation 2 game Scarface, to 100% completion. It took me approximately less than 2 days to do. I had a blast, but there are things wrong with the game that I hadn’t noticed when I first played the game. It may seem odd to replay a game that is 10 years old […]
What cables do you need to develop for Apple TV 4th generation? Having recently bought an Apple TV 4th generation for development purposes, I thought it might be useful for other developers who wish to dabble with the system to know what cables are needed to deploy your apps from XCode to the actual device. Notably the Apple TV (4th Gen) doesn’t actually come with the cable […]
NSPredicates – SUBQuery on a parent-child relationship I am currently working on a game where there is a parent-child relationship in a quite small array where; A `Group` (parent) has many `Child` objects where 1 `Child` object can be owned by only 1 `Player` and a `Player` can only ever own 1 `Child` per group In the game, a `Child` object is […]
Back soon I have not written in a while. But will be back soon. Moving hosts is one of my priorities.
Startup Britain – Pitching to Chillingo On Monday 14 October I was in London as finalist to pitch a game to the Chillingo team as part of the week long Tech4Startup Britain event being held in Canary Wharf. The Chillingo Team were: Matt Dixon, Sales & Business Development Director, Chillingo Andy Needham, Head of Production, Chillingo Daniel Tausney Public Relations, Chillingo. […]
10 reasons your business needs to go mobile, today There can be little doubt that mobile is crushing it for small businesses’ in local search. Increasingly, customers are using mobile smartphones to browse, surf, search and buy products and find services. And yet, many business still aren’t using mobile marketing effectively for their business; or understand the reasons why. So let’s go through 10 […]