Nowadays, every software development team should have a continuous integration server like Jenkins. This is as true for Android developers as for any other platform. It makes sure the current source code compiles and all the
I am now 9 months into my career as a freelance consultant and would like to share my experiences with it. The question if you should make that switch too depends on many factors and can not be
My last post about implementing a turn based game ai became famous on Reddit/Programming for one day. It looks like many developers are interested in this topic. Some readers, with more knowledge of the topic than myself, have
Game AI Developing a game AI can be as much fun as playing, especially when creating your own computer opponent. I am going to present you a simple pattern that works for nearly all turn based game
Interviewing basics When interviewing software engineers, you typically want to answer one simple question: Will they be a good fit for my team? Therefore, your interviewing process should focus on answering this question. Obviously both sides try to answer
Can you give me a LinkedIn recommendation please? If you ever had to write a recommendation for a colleague or friend, you also know how hard it is to write a positive, well formed description
It is an exciting time, as I have been quitting my high-rank day job for pursuing a different way of working. I am currently preparing self-employment, which should start around july. Not everyone, certainly not
Currently, I am preparing a presentation about optimizing apps for the Google Play Store. It is an interesting topic and still in its early stages. Unlike SEO for websites, it doesn’t seem to be affected
Some of you might have read my article Android: Deploying multiple targets from one project. It describes how to create customized versions of the same software and therefore benefit from multiple apps with the same
Enough time has passed since I put Google Analytics into my Android game Laska. It has been collecting statistics for nearly a month now. Therefore, I want to share some data and show the key