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Tips for Getting Hired

By on January 10, 2013 in General

Some tips if you think you’d be interesting in working for FinBlade as a programmer. Extra points if you create your CV with LaTex.

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Writing, on an iPad, on a train, with a Keyboard

By on September 22, 2011 in General

On a long train journey recently, I decided to take my iPad, for reading mostly. I then thought it would be a good amount of time to do some writing too, but certainly not if I was using the onscreen keyboard! So I got myself an Apple Bluetooth keyboard and this is how it stacked up against a netbook or laptop.

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Fixing Bugs – The QA Process

By on August 4, 2011 in General

If you’re creating a game that anyone except you is going to play, at some point it will need some Quality Assurance (QA) testing. This could be anything from a several month long period of formal testing and bug fixing, to getting your boyfriend to play your game for an evening and give you some [...]

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Battleship for iPad (and iPhone update)

By on June 23, 2011 in General

The newest FinBlade developed EA title is available on the App Store today, get it while it’s cheap (£1.79 as of 23rd June 2011).  Like Pictureka! before it, and the original iPhone Battleship, this is another of my babies.  Although we have a small credit in the game “Developed by FinBlade Ltd.” there isn’t a [...]

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URL Shortening with a Custom Domain

By on April 17, 2011 in General

I’ve always thought that nothing says “I’m a twat” more than an obviously personalized car number plate. I guess the geek equivalent these days is your own custom short domain for URL shortening, so I’ve created lngs.tv for myself.

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Gource (awesome source)

By on November 30, 2010 in General

Before writing my p4-overtime script, I did a quick bit of Google searching to see if anyone had already written code for anything similar, and I found a blog post by a guy named Maxim Yegorushkin titled “Visualize perforce change log with gource“.  He’d written a python script to convert the Perforce log format into [...]

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