We recently released a new iPhone game call Memory Gizmo Words and in this project we had to have an animated spinning tile.  Since I had never tried to animate anything before, this turned out to be quite a challenge.

I quickly realized the first thing I had to do was break the animation into pieces and draw each frame.  I started in Photoshop, but trying to get all the sizes, angles, and the perspective just right was a pain.  So I gave up on that idea pretty quick. Read More…

One of the easiest ways to improve the performance of a website is to compress the JavaScript and CSS files. When compressing these files, there are three steps that should be taken in order to get the fastest possible response from your website. You should start by merging similar files to reduce http requests. Next, Compress the code by removing any unnecessary characters such as spaces, tabs, return characters, and comments. Finally, you should gzip the file to reduce the file size even further. Read More…