My Last Day – I Quit my Day Job
Today was my last day at Ancestry.com, a place I have worked at for 10 years. They have been very good to me and my family and I could not have asked for a better day job while supporting my …
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The Life of the Solo Indie Developer
I’ve always wanted to share what life is like as a solo indie developer, competing against shops and apps that have budgets in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars and teams of developers, artists, marketers and project managers. …
Introducing DRColorPicker for iOS – Top Color Picker for iOS
Top Color Picker for iOS Download DRColorPicker on github now! I’m pleased to announce that I am open-sourcing the color picker I built for You Doodle under the MIT license. I call this the DRColorPicker (Digital Ruby Color Picker). I …
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How to split a string in SQL Server the right way
I’ve seen many string splitting functions in SQL Server and many of them overwrite the string that is being split over and over which causes terrible performance by re-allocating memory every time. This is a terrible way to split a …
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The Power of Batching
Recently I coded up a very naive message handler in C# that read in received messages from a certain service in an ASP.NET MVC controller method and then inserted each message into a SQL Server table for processing. When hundreds …
Google Penalty – Why removing links probably won’t help you
I get several emails everyday from people asking for links to be removed from YouReview because of a Google penalty. At first I dutifully responded to each email telling the person that removing the links will not help because I …
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Get a CDN (Content Delivery Network) Immediately
Recently I realized that I had not gotten a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to serve up You Doodle images. Every time a new user wants to download stamps or frames for You Doodle, they have to go to my servers …
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Wimshire – Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls
Today I discovered a magical whimsical world full of killer teddy bears and unicorns. I’m talking about a place called Wimshire. Enough talk here’s a few screenshots: My first thought was “I bet my 5 year old daughter would love …
iOS StoreKit Receipt Verification and Validation
Recently I checked my server logs to see if I was getting any failed receipt validations. I was surprised to see about 20 invalid receipts today for cut the rope experiments being used to purchase You Doodle in-app purchases. The …
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All Code is an API – One Insight on How to Design Good Interfaces in Programming
I was looking through some You Doodle code today and noticed I did something a little odd. Here is the method in question: + (ImageEditorViewController*) showImageEditorWithImage:(UIImage*)image resize:(BOOL)resize isBlank:(BOOL)isBlank aspectRatio:(CGFloat)aspectRatio fillColor:(UIColor*)fillColor editedBlock:(ImageEditedBlock)editedBlock; This method allows showing a popup view controller in …
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