The Bard of Robots

Machine learning for Lego -- Coming soon.

Feb 14, 2017

Developer Valentines Poems

This year HireVue ran a fun little competition. Remember the fun little Valentines boxes from elementary school?  The goal was to make the most technologically advanced box possible, and to...

Feb 19, 2015

Android Rating Ranges

As a developer with a variety of apps in the store my ratings are super important to me.  But even more important than the actual ratings of my apps are the perceived...

Dec 24, 2014

Mario: A Specially Tailored Room

Our second baby is on the way, and we’ve been working on putting the room together. All this sketching reminds me of 3 years ago when we did the same...

Dec 22, 2014

Copy Cat: A Game for Working Parents with Kids

Imagine a rough morning where you wake up early to get to work.  Your family is still asleep, and you aren’t able to say a proper goodbye before leaving.  There’s...

Dec 10, 2014

Honest Development

Through my years of development I have always strived to be an honest developer. I want my users to have a good experience. I want to build fun, new, exciting,...

Dec 8, 2014

Android Isn't Left-Hand Friendly

While redesigning my app Goofy Glass, I came across this interesting finding.  Android isn’t left-hand friendly!  Now I’m not left-handed, so this has never been a problem for me.  But,...

Dec 3, 2014

Christmas Lights Synced to Radio

For years I have wanted to sync my Christmas lights to music.  Each year comes and goes without even a single blinking light on my house.  But no more…  this year I...

Nov 19, 2014

Battling the Media Framework

Earlier this year I gave a presentation titled Battling the Media Framework.  I’ve had a lot of bitter-sweet experience dealing with Android’s media framework.  I’ve had experience with camera & OpenGL...

Nov 17, 2014

Android TV Presentation

I recently gave a presentation regarding Android TV for the Google Developers Group in Utah.  All in all I am very impressed with Android TV.  Google has learned a lot of lessons as they’ve...

Nov 4, 2014

Camera Design Decisions

A couple years ago I released one of my favorite apps, Goofy Glass.  Since that initial release I have pushed out many updates.  Along the way I have come across...

Apr 25, 2014

Google Play No Longer Loves Indie Developers

Both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store were built on the backs of independent developers.  The platform was wonderful!  People could easily find exactly the apps they were looking...

Apr 18, 2014

Google NEXT

For the past 5 weeks I’ve had an amazing opportunity to be a part of the NEXT program in Provo.  It has been an amazing experience, and I am very grateful...

Apr 15, 2014

Spot! Animals Released

I just recently launched the perfect game for kids and toddlers.  It is a hidden objects game like Where’s Waldo or Eye Spy.  It is a 100% free for a...

Apr 4, 2014

Where the wild things are

As part of #ChildrensBookDay I thought I’d write about one of my favorite books growing up.  This book is none other than Where the Wild Things Are.  But to be completely honest,...

Apr 2, 2014

Kickstarter is Live

After lots of work I am proud to finally announce that my Kickstarter has gone live.  I’ve been super impressed and grateful by the amount of support I’ve received so far....

Mar 17, 2014

Colorblind Awareness Day

Happy Colorblind Awareness Day!  (Or as the rest of the world likes to call it St. Patrick’s Day) Twenty plus years ago I woke up on St. Patrick’s Day.  Excited...

Mar 15, 2014

Funny Colorblind Stories

As we get closer to Colorblind Awareness day (also known as St. Patrick’s Day), I wanted to share a variety of my colorblind experiences.  I hope you find them funny....

Mar 9, 2014

My Son's Hair is Green

Yesterday, as I walked down the street I looked at my son Logan and thought to myself: “Wow, he has such bright  green hair, it really shows up well in...

Mar 5, 2014

Android Superman

My work recently awarded me a t-shirt, it is a little tradition at HireVue that when somebody does has a great achievement they are recognized with a customized shirt.  Mine...

Mar 4, 2014

Report finds iOS apps riskier than Android apps!

I recently read this article that states that iOS apps are riskier than Android apps.  I make a point of not trusting news articles…  I’m an Android developer, so I like...

Mar 3, 2014

Startup Weekend

A week ago I attended my first Startup Weekend in Provo.  The experience was good overall, but for none of the reasons I expected.  And in the end I had...

Feb 28, 2014

Face Morphing

I took a short stroll down memory lane today as I was browsing some of my old Image Processing work.  There was a lot of really cool things I worked...

Feb 21, 2014

Goodnight Lad (Animations)

Note: The Kickstart for this has begun, you can find the site here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1223734313/goodnight-lad-childrens-book-and-interactive-3d-ap I just received the final version of the animations I’ve been waiting on.  They turned out...

Feb 18, 2014

1 Million Goofy Downloads

GoofyBooth passed 1 Million downloads today!  It is one of the apps I am most proud of, and super excited that it passed 1 Million in under a year and...

Feb 14, 2014

Running RPG

[caption id=”attachment_142” align=”aligncenter” width=”300”] Drewski Mac via photopin cc[/caption] I wanted to share another active project of mine that I’ve given the nickname ‘Rev’.  The idea is to merge the...

Feb 13, 2014

Goodnight Lad First Prints

The first prints of my book arrived today!  They turned out great.  The quality is actually higher than I expected and the illustrations look fantastic in print.  There are a...

Jan 26, 2014

Spot! Animals

As a kid I loved Where’s Waldo.  It was the perfect game that never got old.  Each page was jam packed with tons of items, and it took hours to...

Jan 20, 2014

Advice From Three Years of Android Development

Three years ago I started my foray into Android development.  I had followed and played with Android off and on for a while before that, but that is when I...

Jan 18, 2014

Goodnight Lad

I’m always looking for fun ways to learn.  Over the past decade many new methods for learning have been discovered.  Not only is information more quickly available, but there are...

Jan 16, 2014

ListView Customizations

ListView is one of the most useful Android layout classes, but customizing it can be tricky. Part of that is simply glossing over some of the nice features that are...

Jan 15, 2014

Android Scene Transitions

One of the less published features of Android KitKat 4.4 was the addition of a new animation framework for Scene Transitions. This is a really nifty framework for developers, because...

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