Sweating the Details

One of my favorite CSS tools, CSSEdit, is lacking one key feature: CSS3 properties. However, there’s a straightforward way to hack them in and enjoy there autocompletion. Jesse Dodds explains how on his blog.

Doing concept sketches and storyboards can be very helpful in the early (and sometimes later) stages of application design. While there are tons of templates for the iPhone, I have not yet seen a great template for the iPad.

So, I present, the Printable iPad Template! The PDF is set up to print very closely to scale with a real iPad. Just make sure any options like “scale to media” are off, and the PDF is printed at 100%. Click below to download. Let me know if you find this useful!

iPad Template PDF (98 KB)

I’m sure anyone who’s owned a Wacom tablet for any reasonable length of time has probably figured this out themselves, but just in case: I’ve happened upon the perfect solution for in-bed drawing… the WacomBook Pro!

My wonderful electric blanket, combined with the comfort of being in bed might actually lead to some semi-decent concept art for our next iPhone game! I’m very excited to be getting back into full-pace game development again, as the holidays didn’t really see much productivity after the release of Grinchmas.

We’ve all been putting some time into getting odds-and-ends checked off over the past few weeks. In my case, this means a lot of nasty end-of-year tax yuckiness, as well as working on hiring our first employee. While all these things are quite important to Limbic, I don’t get the same sense of satisfaction as real saving-data-to-disk work like these concept images I’m going to be working on in the next few days.

Tomorrow should be a fun day too, I’ll be flying out to KLVK (Livermore Municipal Airport) for some alternate airport training. I haven’t flown that far since I did my first big chunk of flight training seven years ago, so it’ll be a nice chance to hit some cruise speeds in the 172SP and try a new traffic pattern. They’ve got a big wide runway out there too, so I’m expecting to make some terrible too-high approaches the first few times around.

Okay, finally a definitive word from Apple on the ARM modes, and how for it to be set for maximum awesome:

In Project Settings, set “Compile for Thumb” as follows:
(do this using the Gear icon in the lower left, and select “Add Build Setting Condition”)

A Flying Student’s Diary… (via PilotFriend)
Week 1

Monday: Rain

Tuesday: Rain

Wednesday: No rain; no visibility either

Thursday: Take instructor to lunch. Discover I don’t know enough to take instructor to lunch.

Friday: Fly! Do first stall and second stall during same manoeuvre. Cover instructor with lunch.
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This has got to be one of the most creative and beautiful storefronts (and interiors) I’ve seen… (via ArchDaily)

More Photos

(from my trip)

We’re looking for 3D artists over at Limbic Software:

(link)

3D Artists

Hired on a contract, by project basis. Must provide own tools and hardware.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of 3D Studio MAX, and specific tools pertaining to low-poly game development, such as UV unwrap and poly/mesh editing.
• Experience painting textures for models, and arranging into texture sheets.
• Comfortable editing basic text files to add texture/model information.

(unknown artist)

(via GraphicHug)

Artwork from Shinichi Maruyama