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Learn Mobile Application Development Textbook

Dr. Burton — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:20:39 +0000

Texas has recently added Mobile Application Development to the approved curriculum for high school students beginning in the academic year 2012-2013. This is a very exciting development for high school students in Texas and, assuming other states follow suit, across the U.S. and potentially the world (okay, yes, I like to think big!). After carefully combing [...]

Converting Word to ePub

Dr. Burton — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:28:19 +0000

I was faced with a challenge: As you may have noticed from other posts on this site, I have written a few books. When writing, I generally use Microsoft Word. I’ve been using it since Word V.6 when I changed from WordPerfect. I have taught how to use Word at the colleges and high schools. In [...]

Mobile App Development with Corona Now on Kindle

Dr. Burton — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:16:50 +0000

After a great deal of demand (and insistence from my wife) and reformatting assistance from my editor/daughter, I’ve been able to make the first 12 chapters of Mobile App Development with Corona available for the Kindle device through Amazon. Due to how Amazon structures it’s pricing, I was forced to break the book into parts. [...]

Major update to Texture Packer

Dr. Burton — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:36:24 +0000

There has been a major update to the Texture Packer software produced by Andreas Löw. You might recall that I have mentioned Andreas’ software previously to simplify making sprites for your mobile apps. There are 25 new features included in Texture Packer including: New layout of the left side panel allowing easier change of exporter Auto update sprite [...]

ReLIVE 11: Researching Virtual Worlds

Dr. Burton — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:11:11 +0000

I’ve just returned from the ReLIVE 2011 conference (pronounce RelIve as in “It’s a-live!”, not re-leve, as in “I want to live”). ReLIVE is the Researching Learning In Virtual Environments held in Milton Keynes, England at the Open University. This is the second conference, the first held in 2008. ReLIVE (if you had not guessed [...]