My move to Zynga

Author Kevin | 13.04.2011 | Category News

Well, it’s now official. I have returned to the game industry as an employee of Zynga, and so far… it’s awesome!

I actually submitted my resume to an iPhone game development company called Newtoy, but I didn’t hear anything for a couple of months and considered the issue closed. This silence was due to Zynga’s acquisition of Newtoy, which at the time, I was unaware of. Either way, I was eventually contacted by one of the leads at Newtoy, which had now been renamed to Zynga With Friends, and was asked whether or not I was still interested in making iPhone games. Of course, I said “Hell Yes!” and after a rather grueling and sometimes odd interview process, I was hired!

What this means for my website/blog, I’m not sure yet. If I can find any free time after my family and my new job, I might be able to post some new samples about mobile development. Or, at the least, use it to post funny pictures of cats and personal rants against that Justin Bieber kid.

My Apologies…

Author Kevin | 25.03.2011 | Category News

I’m not sure how or for how long, but the ability to post replies on my blog was disabled until today. I started noticing that no one was replying to anything. The whole blog was strangely silent – not that it’s super busy anyway, but it was still noticeable none the less.

Finally, after wasting an hour hacking around inside my theme’s PHP code, I realize that discussions on all of my posts had been disabled in my WordPress Admin panel. I can only guess, but it appears that one of the last two WordPress updates screwed up my settings during the patch install and left my entire site in a disabled state.

Either way, it’s fixed, so if you have any replies you wish to leave, please do, unless, its questions about why you couldn’t post replies last week. I think we’ve already covered that!

CodeSampler.com goes blog!

Author Kevin | 25.09.2010 | Category News

Well, if things around here look different… that’s because they are. I’ve finally decided to get off my lazy duff and upgrade my old site into a blog. This not only gives me a great excuse to use cool new techno words like blog, blog rolls, blogosphere and flux capacitor, in everyday conversation, but it allows me to post new code samples in a cool new interactive format where people can complain… um… I mean interact with each other about the code being posted.

Now, while the site undergoes this incredible metamorphosis into something even cooler, all the code from the old site can still be accessed under the Code tab of the navigation bar.