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Piwik Web Analytics Is Great
Looking for a good open source Software Libre alternative to Google Analytics? I can't recommend Piwik highly enough. Setup was easy - PHP & MySQL with a simple web based installer. Basic...
View ArticleYour Handwriting as a Web Font
If you visit my website you will notice everything is in a scrawly hand-written font now. This is a digitized version of my own handwriting. Here is how I produced it: Went to YourFonts and printed...
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McCormick Family Portrait Nov 2011
Photo by Renee Glastonbury. Altered to obscure one nipple. :)
View ArticleLocal PHP Dev Server with Mongoose
Sometimes you want to test a bit of PHP code on your local machine without installing a full LAMP stack. Mongoose is a web server that will let you do that. Under Ubuntu I first downloaded and...
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D-Link DNS-320 ShareCenter NAS review
This thing is great. I got it from VTech Industries for about $220 AUD. It is basically a mini GNU/Linux server with 2 giant hard drives in it. That price gets you a single 1TB drive and you can...
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A* Path Finding for jsGameSoup
I have included a modified version of Benjamin Hardin's 2009 A* implementation in jsGameSoup. This is a nice general way for entities in your game to find a path between two squares on a two...
View ArticleWill Phobos Grunt Hit My Head?
Worried an out-of-control Russian satellite may land upon your head?
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Coherent Noise in jsGameSoup
Recently I added Sean McCullough's Javascript implementation of the Perlin noise algorithms to jsGameSoup. These Academy Award winning algorithms by Ken Perlin are fantastic for adding procedural...
View ArticleGlobal Game Jam 2012
jsGameSoup super mega fun pack - CHECK back to back NOFX records - CHECK 48hr coffee supply - CHECK I am ready for Global Game Jam, Perth 2012! Not going to globalgamejam? Check out Wai-con - it was a...
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Global Game Jam 2012 - day 1
The theme is "Ouroboros". Progress as at midnight day 1: I have a reasonably concrete idea of where I am going. Hopefully there will be time to iterate on my idea and "find the fun".
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Global Game Jam 2012 - day 2
End of Saturday night, day two: Got some sleep. Lots of on the TODO list for today. About 7 hours left. :)
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Global Game Jam 2012 - postmortem
Here is what I ended up with at the end of GGJ 2012. I've cleaned it up a bit, got it working under Internet Explorer (mostly) and put it online here. I ended up with more of a virtual world or...
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squeakyshoecore ep out now on ChordPunch!
I'm excited to let you know that my new EP is out now on UK label ChordPunch! buy it on iTunes buy it at Amazon spotify It's called squeakyshoecore EP and you can find it in most mp3 shops now. I...
View ArticleRecent Work, and a Scotland 2012 Trip
I don't talk about my professional work a lot on this blog so this is a bit of a departure. Lately I've been very lucky to be working on some really interesting projects with really great people. Here...
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