Balancing Personal and Professional Development Projects
A few months ago, I decided to start developing my first iPhone game, Little Devil, alongside my full time job as a Web Developer in Central London. I didn’t have much experience with Objective C or iPhone development so I knew that it was going to be quite a daunting task.
The Cloud Developer’s Bill of Rights – Developers have rights!
Each new generation of computing brings new ways to develop applications. Success stories become patterns, which become application platforms. Great platforms enable great applications. But in the past, “lock-in” has often been the price paid for embracing platforms. This must not happen again.
An introduction to the world of APIs
At its most basic, an API is simply a way for two programs to talk to each other. They’re a set of rules, regulations and restrictions, dictated by one applcation to allow another to interact & manipulate the content. API’s are, in general, offered as a free service however there are often premium or paid versions of API’s which remove restrictions allowing more data to be captured.
6 jQuery plugins that are a little bit different
To prove to myself that there was more to jQuery than content scrollers, I did some Google’ing and found 6 really unique jQuery plugins/extensions that are worth taking a look at.
Simple Cocos2D Collision Detection
How to write a quick and simple collision detection method for Cocos2d
Quick Tips – WordPress: Add Excerpt support for Pages
This tip is really handy if you need to add excerpt functionality for your Wordpress pages.