On June 11th & 12th I am walking at the Long Island 2 Day Walk to Fight Breast Cancer to help raise money to fight Breast Cancer. The walk is a two-day 35-mile journey through Suffolk County, NY.

I have set a goal to raise $1,000 in sponsorship of my walk for the cure. I undertake these two important goals – to complete the Long Island 2 Day Walk to Fight Breast Cancer and to raise money for the fight against this cancer.

For anyone that is interested in making a donation for the cause, a quick online donation form can be filled out at https://www.li2daywalk.org/donor_info.asp?MEMBERID=10141

Full details about the walk can be found at https://www.li2daywalk.org

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Code smart, not hard

February 28, 2011

Code smart, not hard is a simple principle that can be applied to any activity, not just programming, but unfortunately is not followed by everyone. Various reasons attribute to bad code being written, but mainly it is a result of laziness and unwillingness to plan ahead. To put it simply, always think things through, plan for possible future changes and be flexible whenever writing code and not confine yourself to bad structure. continue reading »

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Android framework AndEngine

January 31, 2011

I decided recently to dive back into hobby game development and have chosen the Android OS as my development platform. After browsing through various frameworks, I found one called AndEngine, developed by Nicolas Gramlich, which is a free open source OpenGL 2D game engine. continue reading »

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This posting focuses on iPhone games that you can pick up at any time without investing large blocks of time. These all are challenging games that incorporate strategy, realistic physics and/or fast reflexes with memorization. All of these games with the exception of the last listed have a free demo lite version to try before buying the full version. continue reading »

Out of the vast number of books published, below are a list of my favorites that fall within the genre of Science Fiction/Fantasy. These books are all considered classics or mainstream hits but in case you missed any of them, now is the time to get a gist of what they are about and get into reading them yourself. continue reading »