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PHP: Display an RSS/Twitter feed on your site with RssRepeater

Gritfish — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:17:15 +0000

Rss is great – it allows your sites content to be loaded and shared by just about anything. It also lets you pull together content from many sources and display them in a single page. Last year I built http://www.blaggregator.com (…)

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Boxy2D Physics Engine running on iPad, Android

Gritfish — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:04:00 +0000

I mentioned in part one that when developing for mobiles with boxy2d, that you should use the “no events” branch of boxy2d. When developing for mobile devices, memory is in short supply, and flash’s event class can become a bit (…)

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ADT Batman: The Utility Belt for the AIR Command-Line Compiler

Gritfish — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:21:50 +0000

Over the last few months I’ve been playing around with Adobe AIR on my iPad and Nexus S. The performance increase has been phenomenal between 2.5 and 2.7, and with the rewrite of boxy2d’s event system, I’ve been getting around (…)

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Giving Boxy2D Some Muscle

Gritfish — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:04:47 +0000

Last time we took a brief look at the drag and drop physics engine, boxy2d. Now I’m going to show you how easy it is to add a bit of polish to our game and show just how well boxy (…)

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5 Snippets: Five Things That Really Should be in Your

Gritfish — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:34:39 +0000

IE / Non-IE CSS Basic Metadata for SEO Metadata for Facebook Like Buttons iOS and Mobile CSS Icons IE / Non-IE CSS Let’s face it, if you’re making websites, you’ve dealt with it. Your page looks fine in every other (…)

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The Bare Bones of Boxy2D

Gritfish — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:22:15 +0000

What Is Boxy 2D? Boxy2D is a 2D physics library that I pieced together from a lot of my early attempts at flash games. It’s not as fully featured as libraries like Box2D (objects can’t rotate, and large stacks of (…)

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Tools for Ubiquitous Capture

Gritfish — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:53:21 +0000

What is Ubiquitous Capture? Ubiquitous Capture is the notion of writing down just about every idea that pops into your head, rather than trying to remember it all. It’s easy to come up with a great idea and think “I’ll (…)

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5 Snippets: .htaccess tricks

Gritfish — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:18:11 +0000

Making a .htaccess file Preventing Directory Indexing Custom Error Pages Force Certain File Types to be Downloaded Instead of Opened by the Browser Friendly URLs Making a .htaccess file Making the file is simple – it’s just a text file, (…)

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Working Mobile: What you can get done with a netbook and an iPad

Gritfish — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:13:16 +0000

I’ll admit, most of my work happens at a desk. But sitting at a desk is about the one place I am completely incapable of coming up with ideas. So I go out – and when inspiration strikes, sometimes it’s (…)

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My Big (but shrinking) 2010

Gritfish — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:18:15 +0000

2010 has often felt like a mad race against the web industry. The year kicked off with the “death of flash” as many people in the industry saw it, which for me saw a shift from flash to php, mysql (…)

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