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Google Search Engine Optimization

jjxtra — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:04:49 +0000

My wife recently asked me to tell her everything I knew or think I knew about Google and how to rank better in Google search results. I thought about it for a few seconds and started telling her, but she said “put it in an email!”. I thought, why not …

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Url Monitoring Service

jjxtra — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:35:48 +0000

Over the weekend I wanted to see if I could create a useful software product. I decided on a url monitoring application that was highly configurable. After abour four hours of work I came up with version one of a url monitoring service. It is very configurable and includes the …

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Corona helpers open source library

jjxtra — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:59:42 +0000

Corona helpers is an open source project aimed at making development with Corona SDK for mobile devices quicker and easier. In starting a Corona app, we have compiled a “helpers” library to make things even simpler. This includes how to use physics and add user interface elements to the screen, …

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Indie Game Development – How Are Independent Game Developers Doing?

jermhoop — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:20:21 +0000

Jeff and I recently spent a Saturday reviewing indie games on Microsoft App Hub for the XBOX 360. Microsoft App Hub is Microsoft’s game development platform where aspiring game developers can view and submit games for Windows Phone and XBOX 360. Indie games and game developers are independent people or …

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Mobile Application Developers

jermhoop — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:59:03 +0000

Mobile application developers are in demand today. The reason is mobile application growth, which I talked about earlier. In regards to mobile application developers, I think there’s a few key questions that need to be answered: How long does it take to be a mobile application developer? What is the …

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Securing your Windows Dedicated Server

jjxtra — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:22:40 +0000

How To Block IP Addresses In Windows The last month or so I noticed a disturbing trend in the event viewer on one of our dedicated windows servers. We were getting thousands of failed login attempts to terminal services (remote desktop). I decided I would enable the terminal services auto-ban, …

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Mobile Application Growth

jermhoop — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:33:54 +0000

Jeff and I have recently gone full steam ahead in creating mobile applications and games. Before we created a game for the PC and XBOX called Math Asteroids. But we’ve come to realize that mobile is where the trend for device usage is headed and we need to prepare ourselves …

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Learning Corona SDK for iOS and Android Development

jermhoop — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:22:16 +0000

Learning Corona SDK for iOS and Android Development. One of the challenges of developing games in the mobile space is the number of devices available. There’s iPhones, Android phones, Windows phones, Blackberries (did I just say that one, never mind that, moving on). There’s a variety of devices and …

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Prototyping Your Video Games

jermhoop — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:52:24 +0000

In making mobile and video games, there are two main challenges. One is getting the game done. It just takes a sheer amount of effort and focus to finish a game. Because mobile game development is hard, I’d say the majority of people never actually complete their games. The second …

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Make a 5 Star Game Like Plants VS Zombies

jermhoop — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:13:24 +0000

I recently watched a series of slides on making a game like “Plants -vs- Zombies.” In this article, James Gwertzman writes about this game through a series of slides (which I’ll reference throughout this article). The game is made by PopCap, a big player in the casual games business. They …

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