Engineering IRL goes LIVE - Engineering In Real Life

The Engineering IRL website goes live and I'm proud and excited of this new venture.

I spent time developing out SarioDev and SarioDev Apps and I had some pretty decent success with creations garnering almost 10,000 downloads on the Android App Store.

Since then I have been doing so much engineering and I went from an Engineering Student, to an Engineering Intern and then all the way to an Lead Engineer for Siemens in the Power Generation Industry primarily operating as a Control Systems Engineer. To know more about performing 9 different roles across many different sites and power stations around the country follow that journey here.

I have found one of my best attributes and things I like to do is to mentor the younger engineers coming up and help them have success in their engineering careers. I am building a platform for engineers to have a checklist to work with and then the ability to benchmark their achievements against the average of the community in their industry and years of experience in order to help provide an engineering career path outside of the frameworks set by their current employer.

This site will also provide a platform for writing your own engineering story which has the known effect of increasing the chances of success. Then engineering stories are shared with the community and from that engineers and future engineers can be inspired and motivated to strive for more in their career.

If you're interested in Engineering in any way shape or form please head to https://www.engineeringinreallife.comhttps://www.engineeringinreallife.com and subscribe, join the community or subscribe to the podcast.

If you're looking for an engineering podcast on spotify please click here and Follow.

I'm so excited for Engineering IRL and I hope you will continue your journey with me there!

Wedding around the corner

It's early 2015 and that means our wedding is just around the corner. And I can honestly say I'm marrying my best friend!

It's that time where you start to feel the excitement and a bit of anxiousness with planning and organizing but it's going to be awesome.

I'll be creating a blog leading up to the wedding to share our thoughts and plans for the big day!

#projwedding2015

SarioDev Apps: SarioDev Goes Live !

SarioDev Apps: SarioDev Goes Live !: SarioDev Apps Website goes live and this is the first post going up on the site. I'm really excited to get this off the ground and ...



Go and check out the SarioDev site! I've decided to discontinue SarioDev Apps specific posts from this blog and have a dedicated one.



I will still continue to post things here but will be a different focus - you may have noticed it has been very SarioDev focused as of late. So to clean it all up and centralize the App side of things please check out the SarioDev website and let me know what you think!



Is it a good choice?



See for yourself.



SarioDev Apps

May the 4th be with you... SarioDev celebrates Star Wars Day with an announcement of a 10Up Video Review

May the 4th be with you... Ah, yes, SarioDev is a Star Wars fan and has got a nice Star Wars Lego collection to go with it.  On this great day, we are excited to announce that our friends at GiveMeApps have done a video review on 10Up Number Puzzle Game!

Favorite quote of the video:
"Great way to recharge your brain, keep your brain fresh"

Without further adieu, here is the video so check it out and share with someone you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SLHhD3WaPk

F8 Developer Conference 2014 - 10Up to build with Facebook?

 

Following the Facebook F8 Developer Conference this April has me excited to find out whats the latest. It appears that Facebook is focusing on mobile platform and cross development with some apps focus. That's great news for app developers which has me realizing that I don't have true Facebook integration for the 10Up App.

The 10Up App page is where users can get the latest news about 10Up but the app does not directly post to the page. This conference has me aiming to focus on Facebook integration in the next update! What do you think?

Now that I'm starting to get more traction with the app I want to make sure it gives users all the social features they want. After update 1.7 we integrated Google Play Services allowing users to share with their Google+ Circles for Leaderboards and Achievements. Many users are jumping on board and posting their scores I just want to extend that experience.

Now back to the Facebook F8 Developer conference, they have announced anonymous login to users to lower the trust barrier that users have with allowing apps to have access to their Facebook due to spam and not wanting to share this type of information with friends. I'm glad to see Mark Zuckerberg and the team has addressed this. Great Move!

Hopefully I'll have 10Up v1.8 out to you soon and continue to build the SarioDev brand.

Play Services Leaderboard - Way more difficult than it should have been!

Frustration has set in as I continue to try and integrate play services into my app. Originally I thought it was going to be difficult. But after reading the developer information on it, I was under the impression that it was going to be really easy. It turns out that the leaderboard concept is really easy - which it should be and it's great ! But getting there is another story!
In particular because they recommend extending BaseGameActivity and the entire example is based on this. In my case my activity could not extend BaseGameActivity because it extends something else!
This cause frustration, although it looked like there was hope in implementing what BaseGameActivity class did as it is a wrapper class for GameHelper (which is used for Google API connections etc.)

Last issue is the manifest issues - they mention many times about one of the metadata required, but I think mention only once about another one (APP_ID) that you must have as well. - Another delay

Long story short. I've made progress in that there now seems to be a signin process happening in 10Up when it starts. Only problem is it doesn't actually sign in.
I have read that this may be due to using a debug version of the app for testing (which isn't signed of course)

So now I'm uploading an APK for Alpha Testing and see if I can get this thing done !

10Up Android App Promo Video

The 10Up Promo Video has gone live on Youtube! Check it out!

This will be integrated into the App Description  Page here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sariodev.puzzle10up.app


It is recommended by all top app developers to include an app video to help your app stand out against the rest. So here's the video for 10Up!

I took the footage on a Galaxy Note III and an iPhone 5. Let me know what you think!
Here's a behind the scenes look at the studio setup for this trailer.