Capistrano is a very cool web deployment tool initially built for the ruby on rails environment, more info can be found here. However you don't just have to be coding in Ruby to use it,…
Month: October 2005
applescript to hide/reveal hidden files
There are certain things I find I do now and again which would be nice to automate. One of them is revealing hidden files, on a mac that means the file name begins with a…
Parse XML for iPhone NSXMLParser
so here's how you parse an xml file in objective c, you include the xml in you resources folder in xcode and then we'll create a class file which acts as an NXMLParserDelegate to parse…
Flixel Animated TileMap
So I was putting together a game where I wanted an animated tilemap in flixel, it did not seem to have this functionality natively, so I created a class for it and thought I'd share.…
HTML5 getting started with canvas
HTML5 and javascript are the next wave of web capabilities to do rich content without flash or any other plug-ins like unity. A big part of this is the canvas element which allows you to…
HTML5 interaction on the iPhone limitations
Although Apple claims to be a major proponent of HTML5 by dismissing flash, the truth is they are really just trying to keep the web from being as rich as native applications where they have…
CSS Sprite Map Generator for background-image
So yesterday I thought it would be useful to have a tool that generates CSS classes based on defined slices of an image. There are tools out there that do this but I wanted to…
three.js custom shader material
This post is going to assume you have used three.js to set up a basic scene with a camera and objects. The shaders can go in a script tag within the page and then can…
CSS Blend Modes
Blend Modes is one of the new specifications coming to CSS, you can test this in certain recent builds of webkit with: -webkit-blend-mode Values include traditional blend modes like multiply, screen, overlay, and more. This…
Thoughts about hack-a-thons
So I attended a game jam this weekend. I haven’t done any flash programming for about 2 years, so it was fun to take a trip back into the past and write some Actionscript again.…