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 »

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 »

For any job that needs to be accomplished there are many options on what would be ideal to use for the task at hand. Today I will focus on front-end web development tools which will ease the burden of testing and developing the HTML, CSS and Javascript portions of a site. A nice added bonus is that all of the tools listed are free to use. continue reading »