John Polacek

Here are a few of the things that I have been into lately: Startup Podcasts. My current favorite, Tech Zing, as well as Mixergy and Startups For the Rest of Us Ted Talks about holy shit stuff going on in energy and medicine Node.js, and the excellent collection of tutorials at nodetuts.com HTML5 WebSockets and [...]

Last week, I posted sizeit.js, a javascript utility for responsive web design, to github. It is a simple script that detects screen width and loads external css. Works kinda like media queries. Why not just use media queries? This article outlines some of the problems with them. The reason I created sizeit was for building [...]

The dominant scripting language of the web is JavaScript. This should not be a controversial statement. Yet, among some Flash Devs, it might be. I still enjoy ActionScript, but getting more into the front end HTML/CSS/JS stack has been a lot of fun. Like other developers diving into JavaScript, my first instinct was to do [...]

Match the Letter has just passed 10,000 downloads in total. A big thanks to everyone who downloaded it (and especially those who gave it a good rating). Hope your kids are enjoying the game! After 10K downloads of the game, something that stood out was small number of downloads for Android compared to iOS. Despite [...]

Been a real busy couple months working on a few different projects, most of which I can’t really talk about too much in detail. New App – Collaborating on a new app with a friend. Building with the Corona SDK once again for iOS and Android, and also going to build a web app version [...]

My latest app, Match The Letter, is now available on the iTunes App Store and the

I’ve just posted the video gallery Corona SDK app template I’ve been working on up to Github. This template allows me to quickly create video gallery apps that can be deployed to iPhone, iPad and Android devices, but primarily meant for tablets.

I’ve made updates to my code library (performance improvements mostly) and moved it from svn/google code to github. I’ve had enough of svn and have been wanting to try git out for a while now. I’ll be sharing the source for a couple of my app projects there as well.

I may not get to everything on this list, but that’s ok. It is good to have a gameplan. I’ll likely even add some things as the year goes on. There is a definite trend in my goals, and that is to open up my skillset, moving away from specializing in Flash. My ultimate goal [...]

I like Corona—both the beer and the SDK. This post is about the Corona SDK from AnscaMobile. I was reticent to drop the money on it, but now that I am using it, I have to say it is worth every penny. In my last post, I wrote about why I found Flash to be [...]