The collection of tools available to Apple-product developers has gone from strength to strength. With the relatively recent release of iOS5, Apple went even further towards making its platforms easy to build for. It is now PowerPoint-levels of easy to make a simple app and this can be expanded on with the use of fantastic community created tools. Here are some that I’ve found useful.
Following on from my previous list of HTML/JS game engines, I was informed about Construct 2 – a new visual HTML5 game development program for Windows, developed by London start-up Scirra.
Whew. It’s been quite an intense, amazing, interesting and eventful few months. After going on a life-changing road-trip around USA and making the jump from full-time to freelance developer, its nice to take a bit of time off over the Xmas holidays to look back.
In the age of multiple platforms and smartphones there is one definite feature which is supported by all – a browser. Running with this idea is the latest innovation in browser gaming – the gaming engine.
Considering you’re reading a blog, I’ll just go right ahead and assume you’ve heard of Google+ and all of its “facebook killer” gubbins. It seems, initially at least, that the service has hit the ground running and Google are already planning on increasing its presence across all its services, such as Google Mail. But what has the search-giant offered the developers, in order to create third-party apps and services?
Less of a tech post this time but relevant none-the-less. Today is the first day of my last week at my current job, Spook Media – this Friday, after 2 and 1/2 years, will see moving onwards and upwards into the world of contracting.
The latest addition to my ever growing list of projects on Github is Blankit – a jQuery plugin for adding target=”_blank” to any matching elements. This was done to avoid the issue of creating a long, content heavy, page and having to go through and manually add target=”_blank” to each a element. This plugin was also contributed to by Seb Pollard, the technical ninja that he is.
Check it out: on github or try out the demo.
Over the past few years I’ve had the good fortune to work with a wide range of projects, from small single person business blogs to multinational systems. Interestingly, a common factor through all these projects has been “Can it be done quicker in WordPress?”.
After writing my previous Tools for building an iPhone app on a budget, it really occured to me just how helpful LevelHelper is to iPhone game development. You can check out my already-set-up project on Github to be able to roll out a working Cocos2d powered game, taking advantage of the Box2d physics engine and the LevelHelper scenes.
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.
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