Apple’s switch to its own ARM-based chips (cleverly branded as Apple Silicon) is a really interesting move if you’re a techie. A lot has been written about the capabilities of Apple’s new laptop chip, M1. However, I thought it would be interesting to speculate on what the… Read More »Apple Silicon – A Literal Game Changer
Every company I’ve worked for has had one thing in common – they all generated good ideas faster than they were able to make them a reality. Regardless of whether they were a small start-up or a huge corporation, they all had a backlog brimming… Read More »Don’t Make this Common Mistake When Prioritising Software Projects
‘Edge’ Loyalty ProgramFull Tilt PokerQ4 2011 to Q2 2012 One of the first things that I wanted to accomplish after I joined the Full Tilt Poker team in February 2011 was to revamp and simplify the loyalty schemes that the company offered to its players.… Read More »Design Portfolio – Edge Loyalty Program
Robocap (Dynamic Table Limits)PokerStarsQ1 2010 In a live poker game, you can usually only play at one table at any given time for reasons that should be evident. However, online there is no such restriction. You can play two, four, eight or even twenty-four tables… Read More »Design Portfolio – Robocap (Dynamic Table Limits)
Sit & Go Registration ImprovementsPokerStarsQ1-Q2 2008 A common problem that occurred on PokerStars in 2008 was that you would try to enter a tournament that had a maximum number of entrants (for example, a Sit & Go with a maximum of 9 players), but by… Read More »Design Portfolio – Sit & Go Registration Improvements
Text FilteringPokerStarsQ2 2008 PokerStars Tournament Filter with Text Filter at the Top It’s mid-2008. PokerStars is well-known for its wide selection of tournaments. In fact, there are now thousands of different tournaments every single day, and it is becoming difficult to easily find the ones… Read More »Design Portfolio – Text Filtering
Introduction This is the index for a series of posts which will come together to form a portfolio of the features I have worked on over the course of my career in software design. In my time in the industry, I have led the development… Read More »Design Portfolio – Index of Features
In the past few months much has been spoken, thought and written about ‘good software’ in the online poker industry. Good software, it has been said, is what made PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker the biggest poker sites in the world. In the last issue… Read More »Good Software is Sticky