A warm welcome to another Socoder newsletter. I've written quite a lot of this throughout the week, gathering up bits and pieces of news as it happens, and slapping it into Notes on the iPad. As such, this week's newsletter might seem a little chunkier than it normally does, so I apologise if your scroll wheel suffers as a result.
Coming Up
No iOS section
Nothing about Mel and Sue, or the Bake Off
No sodding Gangnam Style
And probably nothing about cats. .. Maybe..
I don't know about you, but I tend NOT to update my dev kit too often. Once bitten, so they say, and having seen the chaos that old DarkBasic updates would bring put me off ever updating again!
Apple Development is another kettle of fish, altogether. socoder.net/?topic=2999
; Pi Time
Steve_Ancell finally got his Raspberry Pi, and he's got photos to prove it!
Now he just has to wait for all the other bits and pieces to arrive before he can use the thing. socoder.net/?topic=2996
Holy Crap, somebody sent something in for the Newsletter!!!
Have an Arduino, and prepared to wrangle with C#? Dean's written a notifier to let you know when you've gotten an email or two.
Now you just need to get some proper emails, instead of a constant stream of Facebook notifications. ag33k.net/gmail_notifier.php
; Sword of Fargoal 2
Talk about cutting it close! The great iOS app Sword of Fargoal is getting a sequel, thanks to the wonders of Kickstarter, and a relatively low $50,000 target, which very nearly wasn't reached. bit.ly/WqbWJJ
; ASCII Lovin'
Using BlitzMAX? Zolyx has built a fantastic little ASCII display function in the language. You can grab the source code .zip from the link below. bit.ly/WuAxx1
; Learning to Play
What happens when a mother dares to play video games for the first time. on.ft.com/RyAFHk
Whilst building PlayMyCode, Joe took some time to build a proper PHP Error function set, to help find bugs, and stop the script before things became much worse. Since then, he posted its functionality to GitHub, where its managed to pick up quite a gathering. github.com/JosephLenton/PHP-Error
; Demo-esque Tunnel
Krakatomato's made a lovely swirling tunnel, reminiscent of those music demos you used to get, yonks ago. Watch as it goes around and around! bit.ly/T1Qlbb
; Tentacles
Krakatomato also made a second swirly demo, where tentacles swirl from your mouse clicks. Give it a whirl! bit.ly/RK3lgn
