Over the past few months or so, Galden Studios has been pretty quiet. And that will likely continue for some time. Here’s why… We’re pregnant! We’re expecting our first child in early 2020. Instead of working on new apps, I’ve been reading child/parenting books. Instead of experimenting with new development tools, I’ve been researching car seats and strollers. And so …

I spent some time over the last few months writing an application that I’ve always wanted: a backup verifier. I store backups of my data both on-site and in the cloud. But unless I do a “restore” of everything now and then, how do I know that the backup is actually good? That’s where the backup verifier helps… The backup …

It was my last year of college. I needed to find a job. Many big companies came to my college to interview people. I prepared for the interviews as best as I could. I read about the companies that I’d be interviewing with. But many of them also had an “information session” in the evening before the interviews. The night …

Over 20 years ago, I worked on some software named “Sybil”. It was real-time MIDI performance software for musicians. It allowed someone with just a drum pad to sound like a whole orchestra. There were multiple people on the team: several musicians that designed the software and a few programmers that wrote the code. I single-handedly wrote the IBM PC …

I work from home. My wife does too. Her office has a door. She closes when she needs to concentrate. A closed door means “do not disturb”. But my office does not have a door. And sometimes I need to concentrate too! We solved this with a Blynclight. It’s a small light connected via USB that can change colors. I …

Why did we choose “Galden Studios” as our name? Well… I used to watch a TV show named “Crusade” (a spin-off of “Babylon 5“). One of the characters in that show was named “Galen.” He was a technomage.  Technomages use science to create the appearance of magic. I thought that idea was cool. Some time later, I started playing the …