Empowering Education with Drupal and Gatsby
In a recent educational web development project, I harnessed the power of Drupal as a CMS and Gatsby for front-end rendering. The goal was to create a user-friendly, responsive, and engaging platform for students and educators. Drupal's flexibility…
Revolutionizing Web Development with Headless CMS
As a web developer, I am always on the lookout for tools that can improve my workflow and make life easier. Recently, I've been exploring the world of headless content management systems (CMS) and their impact on web development. A headless CMS is a…
Working on... Disney web games via Liquid Interactive
Disney web games while working at Liquid Interactive
Porting from Arduino to NES/C64
So – micro-controllers – working on registers, dealing with low ram, debouncing. I've been seeing a lot of crossover between classic gaming systems and micro-controllers. I'm currently trying to port a game I've made using the CC65 cross-compiler…
Great aussie payment APIs supporting bPay for small biz
As a part of an ongoing project a team i'm working in had to find good payment providers that not only have an API, but also support bPay. https://www.ezidebit.com/ Pros: Established payment provider. Comprehensive API Cons: Can be quite expensive if…
Challenging zelda-like game assignment for teensy microcontroller
So as a part of my CS minor micro-controller module we have to make a Zelda-like game, which is seeming quite challenging! This thing only has 32KB RAM which is less than a Commodore 64 so you can not even do While loops without a crash.
Working on a Teensy/Arduino
So this semester at my IT degree i'm programming micro-controllers as a part of my CS minor. I grew up with the Commodore 64 computer and it had a lot of really great demos that pushed the system to its limits. One cool effect was the sine scroller…
Learning AngularJS with a little stock widget
Decided to get right into learning AngularJS by building a stock widget! There aren’t many good places to get stock data for free without restrictions. I had to look up Yahoo’s YQL for stock symbols, it doesn’t give everything out in one dump…
List of helpful HTML5 guides, frameworks and tools
Geekchamp HTML5 tutorials “This series of tutorials contains 19 Getting Started lessons that would help developers to master the basics of HTML5 in 12 hours! It can also be used as a quick HTML5 reference guide!” http://www.geekchamp.com/html…
Created a Brisbane HTML5 community subreddit!
Decided to create a subreddit for all things HTML5 and Brisbane. Feel free to submit any Brisbane related HTML5 content, network with others, or just talk about HTML5 in general! http://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane_html5/
Links on old-school game techniques
Been looking into old-school game techniques, especially the Gameboy. I think these are really applicable to mobile HTML5 games as the limitations are very similar. They can easily be ported to Javascript and Canvas. Although can be time consuming…
are new technologies in education suitable for the classroom?
New cutting edge technologies available on the web such as real-time 3D, Augmented Reality and social networking promise tremendous advancement for students. Do they really work for the average 15 year old in the classroom of a public school…
The importance of briefs, communication and templates
Briefs – they are the bane of any developer. How can developers get around these roadblocks if the author has no clue what he or she wants in functionality or design? There are authors who are absolutely great at creating a brief, and there are those…
How to extract any version of SWF from Adobe Director (.DIR) files for free
Have you ever had an old Adobe Director file and wanted to extract some swf’s but don’t have the original FLA’s handy? There are some free tools to extract swf’s but most don’t work for Flash 7 and above. Requirements: Adobe Director Your original…
In the future, would HTML5-based games be the norm?
In the future, would HTML5-based web games be the norm? Where’s a Flash/Flex developer to go? Javascript? Mobiles?