by Chad Michel | Jun 19, 2019 | Tools
Google has released a fun and engaging game building environment. Simply called “Game Builder”, this engine is unlikely to produce the next Halo or Call of Duty, but it’s a quick and easy way to create a video game…and that’s pretty awesome for anyone who’s wanted to...
by Chad Michel | Jun 11, 2019 | Tools
The interwebs are all ablaze with Apple’s announcement of SwiftUI. I’ve seen multiple articles about what was covered at the WWDC keynote, but the one topic that stood out to me was SwiftUI. With SwiftUI, did Apple just rewrite software development? What is SwiftUI?...
by Chad Michel | Dec 11, 2018 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
When all of us think of .NET development, we think Visual Studio. I’ve been a user of Visual Studio (VS) for years, and it is probably my favorite Microsoft product. If you compare VS to almost any other IDE, you will likely be left wanting. I have tried other...
by Russ Guill | May 21, 2018 | Tools
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are in the news quite often. We’re still in the early days of this technology, even five years removed from the initial release of Google Glass. The hardware in our mobile devices and computers are improving more and...
by Tony Wilsman | Dec 21, 2017 | Tools
For the past year, instead of working with my customary set of development tools, I’ve been working in the LAMP (Linux, Apache – Nginx, technically –, PHP, and MySQL/MariaDB) technology stack. This world is not new to me. I’ve spent many (many,...
by Brian Zimmer | Dec 13, 2017 | Tools
In the first part of this series, I shared my frustrating journey seeking a better way to secure my network at home. It’s been two months since then and the main change is the release of the second generation Bit Defender Box. It’s still a little early to...
