Fix My Bugs

Who are you?

I’m Steve Longhurst. I live in the south of England and I’ve been a computer programmer since graduating from the University of Southampton in 1996.   Since 2001 I’ve been working in mobile phone game development, starting out with iomo, who became part of Infospace. When Infospace decided to get out of the content market and wound up the iomo studio, a few of us started out again and are now FinBlade.

I consider myself a fairly experienced mobile programmer, having been in the business since the days of WAP games, before J2ME and other technologies allowed you to program mobile devices directly. Over the years I’ve worked with numerous systems including IBM mainframes, pub quiz machines, lots of desktops and other hand held devices.

Why the blog?

I always enjoy publicly speaking and writing about technologies I’ve designed and used. I don’t think I’ve done enough of either so far and I want to increase my technical output. I’ve thought about writing a book, and have even been contacted by a publisher, but I’ve taken the advice of Jeff Atwood and decided to blog instead. I feel I’ve got enough experience and technical knowledge to make a useful contribution, so here we go!