The Cowch

I finally snapped.. 8 months of being frustrated with my job had come to a head with me losing my temper at my boss over a ludicrous timeline, which was imposed because I had wanted to take annual

I was thinking back to when I was around 20 a few days ago and thought about how things have changed over the last 10 years. Then I thought what would I tell this kid even though I still feel like

In every game, you have to be show information back to the user in real time. How many lives/grenades remaining, how many points etc.

In OpenGL, your basically left to your own devices as to

I recently attended the Australian REmix 2010 in Melbourne. Over the course of 2 days we wandered from talk to talk hearing some of the interesting views on the web industry as well as the how-tos

Today I was working and, as I do often, wondering about random things while my subconscious churns through a problem. One thing popped that into my head today was, why can I sit here at

As I start rebuilding my vault of graphics knowledge lost over the years and get back into making my game, a few little tid bits have started coming back to me.

The game I'm working on will

After deciding it was time for a change, the big question was what to change to. That is a tough question. Its filled with a scary kind ambiguity that if you don't learn to face it you'll be stuck

Working in web development in Australia is a tough industry. Its flooded with competitors and client expectations are high (and generally mismanaged) while at the same time they're cost expectatio

Lately I've been building a side project with a friend of mine (www.gigsy.com.au) (shameless plug, if you dont want to follow the link its an IT job site). Wh

As alot of people in Brisbane know, house prices have been rising sharply over the last 10 years or so. It's getting quite ridiculous. So I decided to sit down and do some napkin math and see wher

Coming across this article on InfoQ got me wondering about a few things. The article itself ponders whether or not

Now that the first usage of my CMS is about to live in a production environment, I think it might be good to reflect on some of the things learned from some of the design choices made in the proce

I've been a programmer in IT for roughly 4 years now. Before that, I was a self taught C++ weekend hacker who would spend most of the week (this was around 2-3 years before I studied IT at Uni) do

This was something that more of less creeped up on me over the last year or so. Javascript is moving up in a big way as of late. JQuery has essentially removed the problems of cross-browser javasc

Well, I was tired of my 93 Camry and decided to get a new car. I've had my heart set on a Soarer for a long time, and after test driving a few of them I finally got down to buying one.

I too

Not so long ago, Google announce that it was developing a new OS that was fundamentally based on its new web browser Chrome and thus, unimaginatively called 'Chrome OS'. At that time, Microsoft ha

Today, a couple friends (Nick and Tyson) and I decided to climb Mt. Tiburgargan at the Glasshouse Mountains which is about an hours drive north of Brisbane. This was our first ever mountain climb,

I didn't think I was going to write a Part II to my first article, but a few thin

For a long time, like a lot of people in IT, health was something I would tend to push aside. Slowly though, over the last year, I've been trying to make steady improvements to change my lifestyle

Over the weekend, I decided to update some of iPhone apps and look around for some new ones. I saw RunKeeper as one of the new free ones and since I didnt have any fitness oriented apps, I'd thoug

A link to this blog came through in my email today and I have to say I almost wholly disagree with

Over the last few days I've been playing with Mongo DB. The whole 'NoSQL' movement has me a little intrigued but I've never really had the chance to really get

Lets get one thing clear - I hate CMS's. Why? Well, maybe it has something to do with spending most of my career around them and generally having to deal with really bad ones. I think a large part

So yeah.. last post about my Vibram Fives I mentioned I wanted to do weekly updates. Needless to say that didnt happen. But the time between posts is a good thing. I'm still using my Fives for run

Today I got my much anticipated Vibram Five Fingers. I've read alot about these shoes and have um'd and ah'd over getting