January 2012
6 posts
November 2011
4 posts
Gaming: who will be the winner on mobile?
New winners in gaming are created during technology paradigm shifts. They are generally destroyed when either a) they cannot shift to the next technology successfully (aka Atari) or when there’s too much time between technology advancements to increase their market reach. Nintendo — NES — large adoption of +1 color tvs in family households. Game Boy —...
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
3 posts
July 2011
10 posts
June 2011
7 posts
Thank You to the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC)
Since February, we have called the Cambridge Innovation Center (to the locals the CIC) our home. It is been a fun an exciting time for Session M and the CIC was there to support us in every aspect of building our initial business. The facilities at the CIC are top notch and I am very happy to have called it our home for so many months.
During our time at the CIC, I was continually impressed by...
May 2011
1 post
Announcing Session M Inc.
http://www.sessionm.com
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
1 post
OS X, Snow Leopard, Ruby & the mysql gem
Ok, so managing Ruby development under Mac is seemingly in its infancy, even though 90% of everyone I know who develops in Ruby and Rails does so on a Mac.
If anyone else out there is finding issues with getting the mysql gem to work on Snow Leopard, do not install MYSQL from the dmg. You’ll be asking for trouble. Your best bet is to use the version that is available through MacPorts. I...
February 2011
4 posts
All Teams Must Have Ethos
This morning I read a post on Twitter that got me thinking about team and the importance of ethos.
I’m a firm believer that all working teams need guiding principles to operate by. This is especially important for engineering teams, which work extremely long hours and tend to be at the end of the proverbial product “whip”. How your engineering team operates, in the end, can define the success and...
Loving my new setup
I recently left GameLogic and Scientific Games to pursue a new venture in the mobile/social gaming space. It has afforded me the opportunity to completely recreate my development setup and I really love it. Here are the various things I have been exploring in a new stack.
Get Git
Over the past 10 years I have been using a progression of source control systems to manage development. First CVS,...
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
5 posts
October 2010
4 posts
September 2010
6 posts
