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WWF Words Not In Scrabble
I’ll be soon pushing out a word training app that works with both Words With Friends and Scrabble. Just for fun I ran a query of all the words WWF allows that Scrabble doesn’t. Here they are. For what it’s worth, most of them *really* are in Scrabble, but they took “potty” words out a [...]
Throw Scrabble Strategy Out The Door In WWF
A couple weeks ago I finally got to installing Words with Friends (WWF) on my iPhone while stuck at one of those counter tables facing a wall at a Smashburger with some co-workers. Can I get a window, please? Anyway, I’ve dabbled in competitive Scrabble and am one of those guys that studies word lists [...]
Shmoozing with Fish the Mouse
While Rapture In Venice is technical consulting I do in addition to full-time mobile work during the day, that doesn’t mean I can’t take it three levels deep and rendezvous elsewhere, right? Since early October 2010, I’ve joined up with the dads of Fish the Mouse Media to work on what’s become our newly released [...]
Top 10 Annoyances XCode 4 Fixed For Me
XCode 4 is a radically subtle re-think of the XCode interface. The biggest changes are the switch to a single view as well as the overall workflow for running and deploying apps to the App Store. Here are some of my favorite improvements over XCode 3. 1. Hitting Run while looking at an IB file. [...]
Admitting Your Mistakes #AppFail
The software industry is like no other. As members, we accept some pretty nice salaries, but not without sacrifice. We work hard hours in front of a machine with very little human interaction (even if some of us prefer that). We routinely work extra hours for free when projects slip. We ALL bring our work [...]
John Blanco :: Chief Architect
I firmly believe that coding is life. I started back when I was 10 years old on my Tandy TRS-80. I've been writing apps professionally for 15 years, including 6 years in mobile.
There is no greater feeling than creation, and no finer creation than a great app. Each time you publish one, you give millions of people the ability to do something new in a way they couldn't do it before. Now, with online distribution, it's never been so easy to actually get your app into their hands!
I love what I do!
Shannon Garrett :: Lead Designer
With a passion for all things design and technology, I am focused to face the challenge of simplification in mobile design. I have been designing digitally for over 13 years streamlining media from print to web, and now into hands with mobile devices.
I have an ambition to bring visions to life within good design and usability down to each detail.