Dudney Family Blog

Sarah's Blog General | Saturday September 06, 2008 | By sarah

It's been way too long since I updated my blog. I will try to be better, but life has been very full the past few weeks. We have been very productive around the house, and school is going well, and we did a few outings. We will have a few more pictures over...

Sarah's Blog General | Saturday September 06, 2008 | By sarah

We had a great hike with friends up to the 2nd lake at Mohawk Lakes. Anna had a little swim in the near freezing water. Then, Isabel followed. The temperature dropped while we were eating lunch, and the wind was blowing hard. We had beautiful weather and great...

Sarah's Blog General | Saturday September 06, 2008 | By sarah

Sarah's Blog General | Saturday September 06, 2008 | By sarah

Sarah's Blog General | Saturday September 06, 2008 | By sarah

A friend from church grew up on a peach farm, and she and her family work very hard for the weeks of peach season. I decided to go visit her and show the kids a working farm. It was about 170 miles each way from our house. We had a good visit. The kids,...

Sarah's Blog General | Saturday September 06, 2008 | By sarah

Sarah's Blog General | Saturday September 06, 2008 | By sarah

Our new art cabinet...$50 and solid wood, handmade by some now known designer from the Northeast. It actually brings together the 2 tones of wood in our upstairs living room nicely. A sewing machine for the girls...$20. It's old and very sturdy -...

Sarah's Blog General | Saturday September 06, 2008 | By sarah

PrEV coreanimation color cocoa core | Core Animation | Saturday September 06, 2008 | By objc

While writing an example of how to understand the 3D transforms possible with CALayer I had a bit of an epiphany about how to make building colors easier. Instead of the utility class I'd been using I cooked up this little category on NSColor. Of course I...

PrEV iPhone | Thursday September 04, 2008 | By objc

Exciting times indeed. Raven and I are really excited about this event and can't wait to see you there!

PrEV iphone development life | iPhone | Thursday September 04, 2008 | By objc

This is a question I've been asking myself a lot recently. With the release of my (iTunes link) third casual game for the iPhone/iPod touch I am starting to get a feel for what the market is like for casual games. The number of downloads for Riddle...

PrEV pragmaticstudio pragmatic osx x teaching os studio pragprog apple cocoa | Core Animation | Wednesday September 03, 2008 | By objc

Man what a great day. First off 3 of my kids plus another 6 or 7 of their friends are part of the inaugural FIRST Summit County Lego League. It should be a great time for sure, I totally can't wait to have 8 to 10, 9 to 14 year olds building Lego...

PrEV screencast core pragprog animation coreanimation podcast | Core Animation | Tuesday September 02, 2008 | By objc

I finally finished Episode 6 of The Core Animation Screencast . Man is is way over due (sorry!). It is a bit long again but its really worth it (I think, but you will have to be the judge). In this episode we wrap things up with the final bits of...

Sarah's Blog General | Monday August 25, 2008 | By sarah

This is one of the pictures our renters in our Parker house sent us from yesterdays tornados. This was taken from our front porch. Yikes! I am so thankful no one was hurt, but they were in the basement and very scared.

PrEV iphone games | iPhone | Friday August 22, 2008 | By objc

App Minute is live. In addition to having a plug for my game (thanks Tim!) it promises to be a great site for learning about cool new iPhone apps.

Sarah's Blog General | Thursday August 21, 2008 | By sarah

Check out the pictures below of our snow last weekend!

Sarah's Blog General | Thursday August 21, 2008 | By sarah

Sophia found this very cool insect today. I researched it more today and found this

Sarah's Blog General | Thursday August 21, 2008 | By sarah

Andrew had a pool party to celebrate his 13th birthday. He and Isaac and a few friends went to the local pool for a few hours and played. It is a treat for us to go to the pool, although it shouldn't be. It is indoors, and is open year round. It is just...

PrEV games life animation coreanimation iphone core | iPhone | Thursday August 21, 2008 | By objc

I got the next chapter in Gala Factory pushed out to the app store yesterday, just waiting on apple review. In the mean time please check out the demo video on youtube. Thanks!

PrEV iphone opportunity games | iPhone | Wednesday August 20, 2008 | By objc

Despite having to miss iPhoneDevCamp2 I was able to make the satellite event out in Denver. It was a great time despite the contortions required to avoid the NDA. Out in SF they had the privilege of having Neil Young speak about the gaming opportunity...

Sarah's Blog General | Tuesday August 19, 2008 | By sarah

After 3 solid days of storms and grey skies, Monday brought blue skies and sunshine and warmer temperatures. I am thankful. We don't take too kindly to grey weather around here. We love our Colorado blue sky days!

Sarah's Blog General | Sunday August 17, 2008 | By sarah

Well, since Friday, the temperatures have dropped into the 40's (as highs) and we have gotten some crazy weather. Lots of thunder and lightening, lots of hail, lots of rain, some sleet, and snow at least to about 10,500 ft. We live at 9750 ft., so we don't...

PrEV coreanimation iphone animation core | iPhone | Saturday August 16, 2008 | By objc

This years summit is going to be a great time, early registration ends on Aug. 31. So if you have been putting it off its about that time. Tom Harrington is going to be talking about building your iPhone Fu with two talks and I'll be talking about...

Sarah's Blog General | Tuesday August 12, 2008 | By sarah

Andrew has been saving up since the release of Alien Defeat in February to buy a Wii. He is SO excited that today, with all his birthday money collected, he had JUST enough money to buy one! He called our local Target, and they had many in stock, so after he...