Blackbird! – A Game for Rook fans on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
by dontangg on October 30, 2012
* I am not affiliated with Hasbro!
It has been a month now since my iOS card game app based on Rook, Blackbird, has been approved in the App Store. It has been a blast! It is definitely the funnest project that I have worked on. I think that is mainly due to the fact that I did it all myself and the App Store is a big market. Well, I can’t really say that because I’ve had lots of input and help with testing from friends and family – mostly my dad who is a big Rook fan. I thought I’d just write up a quick post on some things I’ve learned, and throw in some app statistics.
How to Setup Reactive Cocoa (RAC) for Use in Your iOS App
by dontangg on June 28, 2012
I am writing an iOS app and I found GitHub’s Reactive Cocoa very helpful.
There isn’t any documentation on the ReactiveCocoa README on how to install it and there are many ways. I tried CocoaPods but it added and changed a whole bunch of stuff. It made me uncomfortable, and I’m the kind of person that likes to know exactly what’s going on, so I decided to do it on my own. I did it the same way the RACiOSDemo project was setup.
Deploying A Rails App To Rackspace Cloud Servers On Ubuntu Using Nginx and Unicorn
by dontangg on April 4, 2012
I recently setup a Rails server on Ubuntu using Nginx and Unicorn and a database running on the same server using Postgres. I also used rbenv and ruby-build for ruby. I had to look up a lot of information to get this all working. I just wanted to consolidate everything I did into one place. Hopefully, all this can help someone else.
A Simple Site To Automate Sending Texts/Emails
by dontangg on March 15, 2012
I’m often thinking about things that I could code up that would make tasks simpler. Generally, that means that I spend a lot of time up front to write a tool that automates a task. Then, I slowly get that time back over time using the tool. But, it’s fun anyways. So, this is what I decided to automate. Read the rest of this entry »
Constructing A Less Than Simple Query With Rails And ARel
by dontangg on November 27, 2011
I say the query is less than simple because it’s not really complicated either. In my little application, I really only have one query that is like this and this is the one. This is the query that I wanted to run:
SELECT "envelopes".*, COALESCE(SUM("transactions"."amount"), 0) AS total_amount
FROM "envelopes" LEFT OUTER JOIN "transactions" ON "envelopes"."id" = "transactions"."envelope_id"
WHERE "envelopes"."user_id" = 3
GROUP BY "envelopes"."id", "envelopes"."name", "envelopes"."user_id", "envelopes"."income", "envelopes"."unassigned", "envelopes"."parent_envelope_id", "envelopes"."expense", "envelopes"."created_at", "envelopes"."updated_at"
ORDER BY "envelopes"."name"
