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This is Dave Martorana

Software engineer, beer lover. All around happy guy.

  • Domino! by Flyclops

    Domino! by Flyclops

    The most popular dominoes game on the iOS market

  • Two Guys On Beer - Beer Reviews - Beer TV

    Two Guys on Beer

    The original beer review show on the internet.

  • MultiFirefox

    MultiFirefox

    Run multiple versions of Firefox on your Mac at the same time.

Featured Posts
1

Flyclops Domino! 2012 in Review

A brief overview of how a small game company did very well in 2012.

2

My struggle with ADHD (and Shiny Object Syndrome)

I have medically diagnosed “Adult ADHD.” But I can tell you pretty definitively it’s really just plain ADHD, and I’ve had it all my life.

3

The Three Revolutions of Our Age

We get to live through two more revolutions - slower starters, but may have a bigger impact on humanity than the Information Revolution will ever have.

Writings
  • In May of 2012, Flyclops launched Domino!, an asynchronous multiplayer dominoes game. Here’s a fun look at the first 7 months. Hi, I’m Dave In late 2011, I joined the boys at Flyclops in order to help them complete their new game, Domino! A very polished take on the ages-old classic game dominoes, with a wonderful [...]

  • This is as much a note for myself as it is for anyone else, but I’m executing a couple shell scripts via cron that I’d very much like to be able to time. I know they take from less than a second to a couple of seconds to complete, and would like to be able [...]

  • Along with the coolest game company on Earth, I launched a little game recently. The pick-up has been great… but I quickly learned a little something about RDS. The API server is write-heavy. It’s constantly saving state, setting people as online or offline, writing data about games, etc. There are more API writes than reads. [...]

  • While I’m stil processing the information coming out about OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), the talk in the office has been anything but positive. It all revolves around apps.

  • Scientific Revolution by ~pod-tanwen on deviantART Those of us who had our adolescence peppered with the invention of the x86 processor, who gamed away our grade-school years on the Atari 2600 and watched Nintendo become the new heavy-weight champ of the console world with the invention of the original NES – we have spent the [...]

  • At the Q BBQ in Philadelphia. View the full set here.

  • It’s pretty easy to get an EC2-type experience from Rackspace while saving money, getting outstanding support, and reaping all the same benefits.

  • Check out Stephen Coles write-up on Fonts In Use about this awesome ad for EF International Language Centers, which does an amazing job of using type to convey emotion, feeling, culture, and language. EF – Live The Language – Paris from Albin Holmqvist on Vimeo. Also see Barcelona, London, and Beijing. As Mr. Coles points out, [...]

  • I have medically diagnosed “Adult ADHD.” But I can tell you pretty definitively it’s really just plain ADHD, and I’ve had it all my life. As a quick note, medically speaking, there is no more ADD – just ADHD (I have no idea why they did away with the differentiation) – even though I’m hardly [...]

  • So cool to stare at a stone carving that a person held in their hands 25,000 years ago. Click for full version.

  • It’s functional, but it’s just beautiful!

  • Go ahead, meet Mailroom.