Hiring the Right Person

Monday, April 23 2012 - 0 comments

The other day I saw that Valve's employee handbook was posted on the net. Being more than a little curious I went a took a look. It was both humorous and informative. Go take a look, I'll wait.... One of the things that really struck me was their attitude towards hiring. They only hire "T" individuals, where the top bar of the T is the your broad generalization and the post is your deep vertical. By hiring only individuals who both traits you end up getting a specific type of personality: driven to know something well, but open to change and new ideas { my take, not necessarily their...

MyPetMinder - Burning Ember Software

Monday, March 19 2012 - 0 comments

My iOS app MyPetMinder is now available in the app store. Check it out and let me know what you think. Here's the site link: PetMinder

Global Command by BurningEmberGames

Thursday, February 16 2012 - 0 comments

Explore, build, and conquer with Global Command by BurningEmberGames Global Command is the turn based strategy game now available on iPad and Android. Check it out and let me know what you think....

The Year in Review

Thursday, December 29 2011 - , , - 0 comments

It's been a very busy year around here and my blogging has fallen off a cliff. Ironically, this is post 701. Somehow seven hundred became the magic number. So what's been going on: The 3D Room Planner on Lazboy and Thomasville and others as well. The iPad version of our 2D room planner available on iTunes . Then there are the side projects: I published 3 full length novels this year. My Amputee Wife The Desert War Oasis the New Dawn Two others are complete and in editing phases with expected publication in 2012. The Daughter of Ceras - www.tjweaverbooks.com The Slave of Oasis - www.tjweaverbooks...

Happy 236th Birthday Marines

Thursday, November 10 2011 - - 0 comments

I’m reading My War by Andy Rooney. I bet I haven’t watched 60 minutes in 15 years, but reading this book I can hear his voice and that same no nonsense character. He was as brash and stubborn as a young kid as he portrayed himself on 60 minutes. Andy had no shortage of opinions on Patton, Hemingway, Ernie Pyle, and a great many other “famous” people that he met and or served with during the War. The book is a pleasure to read as it is laced with his wit and wisdom. This book will remind you why we have a Veteran’s Day and what there is to be proud of, whether you are a Marine, a Soldier, a Flyboy...

Embed Fonts using FlashBuilder 4.5 Actionscript Only Project for a Mobile App

Saturday, June 18 2011 - - 1 comments

Last week I lost a good 6+ hours trying to get embedded fonts to work on an iOS / Android Flashbuilder project. I know Adobe is aware of this, but I’m going to say it again. Embedded fonts is just plain screwy. There is no reason it should take an entire day to get a font to rotate and actually appear on the screen. I can rotate fonts all day long in every major browser with just a few lines of CSS, but making the same happen in Flashbuilder is like standing on one leg while walking a tight rope. If you want to rotate a font it MUST be embedded. To embed a font in an Actionscript only project you...

FlashBuilder 4.5 and iOS vs. Android

Tuesday, June 07 2011 - - 0 comments

One of the new features in Flashbuilder 4.5 is that it can publish to Android, iOS and Blackberry. We are still waiting on the iOS update to build Flex iOS projects, however you can build a strictly AS3 project and publish to iOS. That all sounds great, until you actually try and do it. The steps necessary for me to publish to my Iconia tablet were 2 – Configure the IDE and Install the USB driver. From that point on I can publish to my tablet and I can debug on it. To publish to the iOS based tablet is a whole lot of steps most of which are not consumer friendly and frankly have so far have resulted...

Going Mobile

Tuesday, June 07 2011 - - 0 comments

So I bought an Acer Iconia Tab A500-10S16u 10.1-Inch Tablet Computer (Aluminum Metallic) tablet and have used it extensively for a few week now. For the most part I must say I like it better than the iPad with one big notable exception: Netflix and Hulu. Neither one of these work on my tablet which is a serious issue for the adoption of Android based mobile computing. Let’s face it, the tablet is the best form factor for consuming both of these video sources and not being able to just sucks....

Tuscan Marine Shot and Killed By Swat

Friday, May 27 2011 - - 0 comments

This is the second article I’ve read about this and I have to say that the bias in both is appalling. I would expect that some reasonable fact checking and detail verification would take place before writing and posting inflammatory garbage like this: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/05/27/arizona.marine.death/index.html?hpt=T1   You might think I would be on the side of the Marine, after all, he was apparently innocent… The fact of whether this man was innocent or not isn’t actually all that relevant. The focus on both articles has been: Marine, Vet, SWAT, Excessive force (71 shots fired). Let...

Would You Do It Again

Sunday, April 17 2011 - - 0 comments

I was driving home on Friday and as I stopped at a light the car behind me turned to the shoulder and came to a stop next to me. I looked over and the young guy driving nodded, his passenger window coming down. So I pushed the button on mine and he goes: “Were you a Marine?” Gee what gave it away? The veteran plates or the big Marine Corps sticker on my back window? “Yeah,” I answered. “Would you do it again?” The light went green, but there were still a few cars ahead of me not moving. “In a second.” He smiled nodding. “Should I join? I’m twenty four.” I stated to answer then stopped. Too many...