I’ve been wanting to add google analytics tracking to the Khan Academy app, but have been putting it off for a while since it looked like the only option was to use the Silverlight Analytics Framework. There’s so many things wrong with that distribution: Overly complex to support N number of different trackers … enterprise [...]
Edit: This is now available on GitHub: https://github.com/joelmartinez/Jint.Phone Did a fun bit of hacking, ported the Jint JavaScript interpereter to Windows Phone 7.5 … the result is seen below: And when we run that code in a silverlight application: This would also work in XNA games for wp7, so one can imagine scripting scenarios if [...]
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence have long been interests of mine. Socially Aware XBox Live Games Finite State Machine nBayes Most recently, I’ve enrolled for the AI and Machine learning classes being offered by Stanford. I truly feel as if advanced engineering practices such as machine learning and AI are going to be what separates [...]
This is already a few weeks old, but someone finally uploaded a good video of the presentation that I was a part of at the September New York Tech Meetup. Igor showed off the awesome new voice logging feature that we recently added to the iPhone version of the app (coming soon to the Android [...]
I wrote this for fun on the train a while ago, and just came across it again recently. So I figured I may as well post it. The code implements a simple game of life simulation, but the interesting bit is that it parallelizes the process using the TPL. I uploaded it to github as a gist, [...]
I’m quite excited to reveal that, after 4+ years at my current employer, I’ve decided to accept a new position. The new position is with About.com, working in their Calorie Count business unit on their Android app. The app was recently featured on TechCrunch, covering a new feature which came to the iOS version. I [...]
Now Available for the Windows Phone Marketplace, SteamBirds: The turn-based aerial combat game that over twelve million people have played! “…Steambirds lies in wait to rob you of your Monday morning.” –Penny Arcade Use bombs, missiles and poison gas to defeat enemy planes in this unique turn-based game! This version features improved graphics, new music, [...]
Now available on the Windows Phone marketplace, Udder Chaos! “Protect your cows from Alien hordes as they try to abduct your precious livestock. Alien hordes too hard? Upgrade your weapons and gain smart bombs to blow them out of the sky. Includes global leaderboards, endless mode, easier kid-mode, and option to remove ads.” The trial [...]
A while ago, I created a clone on Google Code of the Stateless library because I wanted to use it in a .NET 4.0 project, and the current distribution was using VS 2008. After I did that, I started playing around with the library. Specifically, I wanted a way to have multiple state machines, and [...]
And the hits just keep on coming … here’s a simple little function which executes a query against a database and pipelines the results as PSObjects. .SYNOPSIS Executes SQL against the supplied connection string. .DESCRIPTION Executes SQL against the supplied connection string. The result set is then pipelined as a PSObject which can subsequently be [...]