Other Projects
-
Hunt’s Moderately Spicy BBQ Ribs Recipe
Growing up, I was never a fan of spicy foods. I always preferred a good BBQ sauce over hot sauce. But lately, I’ve developed a taste for spicy things. So when it came time to try out a new, from-scratch recipe for ribs on Canada Day this year I figured I’d add a bit of…
-
Sending and Receiving AVPlayer HTTP Headers
While investigating a series of spikes in a certain error code for one of the video streaming iOS and tvOS apps I have been working on for my day job, we were asked by our CDN server team to inject and inspect the information being sent to and from the server during HLS streaming. In order…
-
Zote – Break Poverty Hackathon Solution Demo
Back in November, my project partner Oksana and I took part in the Break Poverty Hackathon by Devs Without Borders. Over 120 developers in Toronto connected with over 60 developers in Nairobi to develop solutions for low income rural areas in Kenya. The solutions were all focused on using the emergence of mobile technologies to…
-
Project: Hat of the Month
So I have an EPIC collection of ridiculous hats in my closet that I’ve accumulated over the years. And sadly, most of then never get worn (although to be honest, some should never see the light of day again). So this year I decided to bust out the best of them and wear a different…
-
LookUp – Transient Watch Solution – Space Apps Challenge 4/10/15
This past April, my project partner Oksana Salamaszek and I participated in the 2015 NASA SpaceApps Challenge in Toronto. Oksy and I had volunteered at last years challenge, which was held at the Ontario Science Centre. We were so amazed by some of the projects solutions that people were proposing that we decided we had…
-
HOOQ, the biggest deal between Hollywood and Asian Telecom in history, is now available in the app stores!
Quickplay Media (where I work) and SingTel just issued their press releases announcing the release of HOOQ, one of the largest joint ventures in the entertainment industry in history, to the app store – and I’m so proud to have been a part of it! Both Quickplay and SingTel have issued press releases, so now…
-
Smirnoff Fluffed Marshmallow Vodka – A Drink Recipe For A Hangover
As you may have guessed from the title, my roommate Kayla and I invented a new drink this weekend. She had picked up a bottle of this new Smirnoff Fluffed Marshmallow Vodka while we were at the liquor store and didn’t know what to mix it with. I suggested mixing with with Creme de Cacao…
-
OmniFocus and Getting Things Done
Last week a good friend and personal mentor asked me to help him add some much-needed but apparently non-existent features to an application called OmniFocus for Mac. According to my google searches, OmniFocus is considered one of the best task management applications on the market designed to support David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology. But…
-
Got My Kinect
I picked up a Kinect for super cheap the oher day. Haven’t even been able to connect it to my computer since Ive been so busy with developing iPhone apps, but I’m stoked to start unravelling it’s mysteries and discovering its secret powers is weekend when I’ve got some time!
-
I’ve Always Wanted A Laser Pistol
So I saw this wonderful LASER WEAPON today. I think I need to build one. 2012 is going to have a LOT of projects.