Essential podcasts for improving web development
Podcasts are a fantastic way of consuming the latest tech news/tips without having to sit down and read articles. Here are some of the best I’ve found which help me focus and learn more.
Tools for building an iPhone app on a budget
After going through the process of developing, releasing and maintaining Wicked Little Devil, I realised that I had collected a large amount of apps, websites and tutorials.
HTML5/CSS3 Examples
Over the past few days, I’ve been throwing together a few examples of HTML5/CSS3 and what can be done.
Fun with CodeIgniter & Twitter – Famousmention.com
After stumbling across the fantastic Tank-Auth library and the 3rd-party extension to it by ericbae (available on github), I thought it’d be a good opportunity to finally throw together a twitter web app. The product of this is Famous Mention.com, a tiny web app that allows you to check out who the most famous person to tweet you is & tweet out the result. Incidentally, my most famous @ message was from @leolaporte who has 302977 followers – decent!
The code for this app is available on Github, so feel free to add to it or even tell me what I did wrong/could have done better.
Enough chatter, go ahead and find out who your most famous @ messenger is at Famous Mention.com
Game Release: Wicked Little Devil (iPhone)
I recently released my first iPhone game – Wicked Little Devil. Check out my more “official” sounding press release below. I will be following this announcement post with a blog all about how I built, released and maintained the game.
From London-based Indie game developers, Wicked Little Games, comes the epic platforming adventure WICKED LITTLE DEVIL.
Help Sammael, The Angel of Hell, escape from the underworld in this new and exciting game from Wicked Little Games. Using your reactions and a collection of powerups, Sam will travel through earth, sea and sky as he tries to break free. Each complete with a unique graphical style and catchy tunes.
Once you’re free of the underworld, compete in challenge mode as you race against a growing pit of lava to survive as long as possible. Once you’ve attempted to jump from the depths of Hell, compare your scores globally with two dedicated Game Center leaderboards. Check out the latest game trailer over at Youtube and follow further development progress on Twitter and Facebook.
Developed by a two person team, Wicked Little Devil is the first of many games coming out of the Wicked Little Games studio production line.
Expression Engine: Add Global Variables to Channel Entries
In Expression Engine, global variables can be used at template level for many uses. In one of my latest projects, I needed to pass through a specific global variable, but instead of placing the tag in the template, I needed to put it directly into my channel entry. Here’s how I achieved it…
Spotify for iPad in the works?
Spotify semi-announce that they were working on an iPad version of Spotify.