Author Archives: Chief Cobra

Space: The closed frontier

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Chief Cobra

This makes me happy: But this makes me very sad indeed: If you’d asked me as a teenager, I’d have told you that we’d be on Mars by 2010. Why? Because we can. Because it’s there. Because we’re explorers. And … Continue reading →

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I used to be indecisive but now I am not sure

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Chief Cobra

It is time for May’s iPhone game update and progress has been made! A whole nine hours of work went into creating a working map editor and it was great fun to create. I learnt a lot about Cocoa, Interface … Continue reading →

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Germs! GERMS!

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Chief Cobra

Ihad a four day week last week! So, on one hand, yeah! On the other hand, bloody hell. What happened to Wednesday? No, seriously, where did it go? Now if I wasn’t the typical yellow-bellied male who believes that even … Continue reading →

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Scheduling the baby out with the bathwater

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Chief Cobra

When it comes to true innovation, try you must or do you will not. Whilst the larger companies have whole R&D departments dedicated to experimentation with new techniques and technologies, the smaller outfits or individuals have to innovate as they … Continue reading →

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It lives!

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Chief Cobra

Et voila, a map editor was born. It took a couple of hours longer than I expected, but I got a tad carried away with the odd extra feature or two as well as bumping into the unexpected. Fortunately, I … Continue reading →

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Progressing backwards through time

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Chief Cobra

If you’ve followed the last two updates, you’ll know that in a period of ten weeks I’ve made just the odd hour or two of progress on my iPhone game. Indeed, given that most of that time is required just … Continue reading →

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Wow… just wow

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Chief Cobra

If you’re remotely into software development, you’ll have probably already have heard of this already. If you have not, you need to check it out right bloody now and bask in something that’s going to blow your socks off even … Continue reading →

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How to take over the world

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Chief Cobra

1. Take over the world. At a high enough level, everything looks easy. Needless to say, the devil is in the detail. Have you considered where you’re going to find a tropical island with an extinct volcano to use as … Continue reading →

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April cactus: the weather’s dry, the schedule’s a tumbleweed

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Chief Cobra

Well, play my piano and polish my sideboard, another month has gone by. Not a drop of rain has fallen and I recently saw the phrase “April Showers” pack his bags and trudge slowly to catch a bus out of … Continue reading →

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πr2: Burger maths

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Chief Cobra

One of the many inexplicable things about me is my love for a certain brand of frozen beef burgers. For years, I have successfully ignored all efforts from all quarters to upgrade to something that could be reasonably classed as … Continue reading →

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