Monthly Archives: March 2011

On The Dangers of High Self-Esteem

Shmott Guy Anti-patterns Being A Short List of Descriptions, Remedies and Example Thoughts, Enumerated in the Hope of Learning From the Mistakes of Others* Unwarranted optimism leading to higher risk-taking Sounds like: “I can produce my first commercial video game … Continue reading

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Adventures in Yak Shaving

Or Time Management Done Wrong To fix cocos2d sound behavior in multitasking iOS apps: I needed to ask a question on StackOverflow.com. Which needed a description of the basic cocos2d behavior. Which needed me to create a test app from … Continue reading

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Fatal Distractions

Making THE OCTOBER GAME: Defense against Distraction Welcome fellow #iDevBlogADay readers. I’m Will Culpepper, a fairly new, solo iPhone developer. My company is called eliolhan and I have four programs on the iOS App Store: How Old Am I, Tipidy, … Continue reading

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