I realised that I wasn’t properly handling the return value on a feed I was grabbing to display the “Spiffy things from the Internet” section of the blog. I went to WordPress to look up the fetch_rss API details, only to find that it had been deprecated in WordPress 2.8.something. Being the ever-vigilant beacon of [...]
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The good Mr Craig Sharkie (URL pending…) pointed me to a JavaScript game that was designed to run on the iPhone. Being a copycat, I decided to port my recently un-earthed platform game to be iPhone-friendly. Due to a serendipitous accident, the game was already 320×480 pixels – so all that was required was to [...]
Ah ha! First time on this blog where I’ve started a “series” and got past post 1. (Check out post one: called “Part 0″). Well anyway, it turns out that my theory that simple 3D is easier that it seems was correct. Based on my vague inclination of how the maths should work, I constructed [...]
My breakthrough with high-school level vector mathematics got me thinking: maybe maths isn’t as hard as my math teachers made it appear? And maybe it could be used for more cool stuff… like, making a 3D game? My programming skills are such that I could make games that come from 1980 – and Battlezone was [...]
I just realised that my cathartic “throw all my old stuff up on the web and call it done” might apply to more than just JavaScript code, so here’s a couple of tracks I never finished way back in the summer of ’05. We were all so young and crazy then… Miss New Orleans by [...]
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Well here’s a tip that would have prevented me from barraging the owners of test.com and asdf.com with mountains of garbage test emails, had I discovered it many years ago (sorry about that, guys!). In .NET you can easily specify a location to dump emails ready to be picked up by the SMTP server. If [...]
Presenting yet another blast-from-the-javascript-past, “Some Adventure-y Guy: The Platformer!”. Navigate your way around the treacherous pits of, err, darkeness in search of the mystical sack of money I copied from Pitfall…
I went in with low expectations (which may have influenced my resulting opinions) but the flaky and slow Google Wave developer preview exhibits clear and unarguable signs of awesomeness to come – so much so that I’m already annoyed that I have to go back to regular boring-old email after using Wave for only a [...]
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An important thing to remember about the worst movie ever made is that we still call it a movie. That means there exists a lot lot worse. »