This past week, I had to implement some functionality for my current project and part of it involved collecting a date from the user. At first glance my mind was set: “Easy! Put a Date Picker in that page and you’re sorted!”. But… Nope… We couldn’t… Why? No idea. Looks […]
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I’ve been quite busy the last few weeks since I started a new role but they have been very interesting since I am working on a project that allows me to get in touch with a few cutting-edge technologies that I had no professional experience with, namely .NET Framework 4.5, […]
Validate Irish PPS Number with JavaScript and jQuery
Well, yes, unfortunately, it’s true. Chaosity project is dead… At least with the current format and project members. I won’t be a part of that project anymore, for reasons already explained to the team. And since the Game Design was mine, the game as project as it is designed will […]
Chaosity is dead…

Hi there. You guys maybe wondering what have I been up to, since I haven’t been posting much lately in my blog. Well, things have been quite busy for me, both personally and professionally and you all know the Christmas season is pretty much a time where we barely have […]
Thanks a lot to y'all! (2012 Summary)

The very first piece of news I read today was about Zynga’s shutdown of some of its titles because they were no longer profitable. Reading that was kind of sad. I mean, I can understand that since last year’s problems with Zynga’s IPO and the massive depreciation the company was […]
Business as usual

I’ve been working a little bit more on the Game Design Document of Chaosity to include several gameplay elements and also weapons and defensive devices. For those of you who have no idea what Chaosity is, check this post. 🙂 It has been busy for us and we were fortunate […]
Chaosity Concept Art

Hi Everyone! I know it has been quite silent here for a while but I have been very busy lately with several things and haven’t had the chance to blog and neither inspiration to write about anything. Nevertheless, my mind is still working and I do have a lot to […]
Piracy in Games: Fight it? No, embrace it!
I just saw the last episode of the popular Off Book webisode and I couldn’t help but blogging about it. For those of you who don’t know what it is about, Off Book is a web series related to all forms of art expression “that explores cutting edge arts and the […]
The Art in Video Games

I have been a World of Warcraft player since late 2005. I have played the classic WoW (aka Vanilla WoW) and The Burning Crusade, The Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm and now Mists of Pandaria expansions. The only time I didn’t play high-end raiding was back in Vanilla as […]
Mists of Pandaria – Ale is my bear necessity

First of all, today is my son’s 11th Birthday. So this post is dedicated to him simply because I love him very much. 🙂 About a week ago, I’ve mentioned I was working on a new project but I couldn’t tell much detail about it, but now I can add […]