Teens joining race to develop the next chart-topping apps

Making the Smart(er)phone.

Not long ago, during the Bubble Ball apex, I was asked about teens and programming for mobile. Here is the resulting interview in Miami Montage.

All thanks to the exposure we received as a company from then 14-year old Robert Nay, and his Bubble Ball hit which became the number one app on the Appstore. He got all the media attention, we got all the attention as the technology behind the #1 hit. (Bubble Ball).

I wish when I was that age, I had access to the wealth of information that is available today via the web, etc. Instead, my “Google” back them were the bookstores and in the mid 80’s, and back then, books on programming were scant. And if my memory serves me right, the only available magazines that I had subscribed to back there were Apple Cider, Dr. Dobbs and BYTE. And back them, those were hardcore magazines.

Carlos.

10 Crucial Lessons Learned From Running a Startup

I have gotten a lot of e-mails regarding my Ten Commandments for Entrepreneurs. About nine months ago, I was asked, what lessons have I learned from running my startup and if I could share them. And it got me thinking and the truth is, there are a lot of lessons learned, but not enough time to share, plus given the context, it would have been difficult to articulate via a blog.

Maybe I will start a video series. But from the initial question and the exercise on coming up with the lessons learned, I came up with a list of the 10 Crucial Lessons Learned from Running a Startup. Here it is in simple PDF Form. I will follow up shortly with a voice over video articulating each slide.

Geometric Data Structures for Computer Graphics

New weekend reading.

Get it at Amazon.

Like the book title says, geometric data structures play an important part in CG and this book is an essential book to have in your arsenal with anything having to do with GC. Particular attention in Ch. 7 “Proximity Graphs” in regards to polygonal meshes. Interesting.

Also, “Polygon Mesh Processing”, great book on one of my favorite CG subjects. (Does the fact that you can also ping this site through http://b-splines.com/ tell you anything?)

Also from Amazon.

Carlos.

Inc Magazines chooses our Corona SDK ….

Inc Magazine writes an article on “5 Ways to Make Your App Take Off” and chooses our Corona SDK as the #3 way to make your apps soar.

3. Try Corona by Ansca Mobile.

Corona is the world’s No. 1 mobile app development platform and many developers have found that by using it not only do their apps work better, but they get more downloads. That’s because Ansca Mobile has partnered with some review sites and podcasts for apps such as 148apps.com, CrazyMikeApps.com, AppShrink.com, Experimental Game Dev Podcast, and MadDog Podcast.

Another great feature of the Corona platform is that it can quickly publish an app to multiple marketplaces simultaneously: the Apple App Store, Google Play (Android’s new name for its marketplace), Amazon (for the Kindle Fire) and Barnes and Noble (for the Nook Color tablet). And it’s cheap; a yearly subscription is only $349 or $199 if a developer only wants to build to one platform.

Here is the link to the article >>

Grinning from ear to ear.

Carlos.