Hey All,

Happy New Year!!! 2014 was an amazing year for me:

• Got contracted to write a second book (almost done)
• Ran a successful Kickstarter
• Had YTD 64,000 downloads of PiPlay
  
• Spoke at PyCon, Computers in Libraries, and EDUCAUSE conferences
  
• Participated in Orlando Maker Faire
  
• Was able to hire the very talented Elizabeth Williams to be part of my team at work
  
• Developed software that is helping 60,000 students
  
• Added a very cute and very annoying kitten to our family
  
• Learned a few new technologies that I had been putting off
  
• Watched my wife get a great new job
  
• Watching my friends start families
  
• Made some new friends

Not to say everything has been great, but the good has totally outweighed the bad.  I have to thank all of my readers as well.  I couldn’t have done without you all.  Thank you!

Amiibos

So I’ve been hit by the Amiibo bug.  I started cutting out these stands for my collection.

I may have gone a little overboard.

PiPlay

The next version of PiPlay is really coming along.

You can see our game listing screen now shows a lot more info.  We are also moving a lot of our configs into SQLite DB files for faster retrieval.  This is going to be an awesome release!

Happy 2015 everyone!