Finally Kotlin is an offically supported language by Google for Android development and now many more people can use it to code their Android apps. If this is the first time you are hearing about Kotlin you should start by reading the introduction here https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/. To get you excited though I thought I would show off some cool uses of Kotlin's features and how we can use them to create a type safe and elegant API for unit conversion.

Went searching for an old favourite app the other day name Dial-A-Wis and was shocked to discover it was no longer available. A simple app for quick access to the phone numbers of AWIS stations around Australia used by almost every pilot with an iPhone. I am not sure what happened to it but I felt that this app was so useful I had to recreate it. It is available free from the App Store just like the last version.

Many cocos2d developers have recently found that with the upgrade to iOS6 their screenshot code is no longer working. This is due to the fact that iOS now returns nothing when reading pixels from the frame buffer after it has been presented to the screen. Apple has warned that this was unsupported behaviour for a while, and it looks like they've finally acted on that.

​During my work towards my university degree I completed a thesis on development of an Artificial Intelligence agent to play an open source version of Mario. The agent was based on an A* implementation and my research also went into developing an agent based on Monte Carlo methods.​