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Exams and Mechanics
16th May 2012

Good luck!

JL235

death of cobra basic - time for a new language
16th May 2012

@Afr0, that is a strawman argument. Starcraft 2 being written with C++, does not mean JS isn't used.. For indie games, tonnes of devs are moving to use HTML5 and JS, and tonnes of big studios are using it for side projects. Bethesda even launched the Wolfe*snip*

JL235

death of cobra basic - time for a new language
15th May 2012

These days cloud based is the direction things are going. It's quite simple, people can just visit and it'll just work.
So I'd recommend taking a look at JavaScript or CofferScript, using HTML canvas or WebGL (or one of the many frameworks, like three.js *snip*

JL235

Exams and Mechanics
15th May 2012

Ah, exams. I remember those.
It's odd that your initial life skills are setup based on a system, you'll never go through in real life. However I suppose it's the best we have.

JL235

Cockle Theft
13th May 2012

A lot of these silly laws don't actually exist anymore. The main reason is because newer laws take precedent, and overrule them.

JL235

DDs Socoder Party
11th May 2012

Yay! I has the house to myself for a week, massive SoCoder party at mine!

JL235

HTML5 taking the new by storm.
8th May 2012

HTML5 also brought the canvas tag, so you'd need HTML5 to do those sorts of graphics.
Really 'HTML5' is not really about HTML5, it's about the canvas, video, audio tags, CSS3 and performant JavaScript. These are things which have already been around for a*snip*

JL235

IE whinging
7th May 2012

I'm pretty sure I've built forms on the fly that work fine in IE 9. So I'm pretty sure there must be something else going on here.

JL235

You got Cake in my PHP
7th May 2012

Take a look at XAMPP, I believe that comes with Ruby on Rails. I've not tried that myself, but XAMPP is excellent, and I'd be very surprised if it goes wrong.
Personally I setup Ruby and Rails manually, but it's a nightmare to get right. The issue is that*snip*

JL235

IE whinging
7th May 2012

The other browsers break tonnes of stuff too. These days I'm more annoyed at Opera then IE; it has a lot of niggling bugs.

JL235

You got Cake in my PHP
6th May 2012

Tbh, don't use PHP. It's a really horrible language.
I'd recommend you get started with Rails, or you could try out Sinatra. Sinatra is pretty slim, but offers a very clean basic structure for a site.
Although a little magical, there are good reasons why*snip*

JL235

You got Cake in my PHP
6th May 2012

I've not used Cake, but I've heard terrible things about it. Kohana is meant to be much better for PHP. MVC though is pretty straight forward, and makes a lot of sense once you get your head around it. It's also pretty predictable, which is useful for big *snip*

JL235

DDs Crappy May
2nd May 2012

My brother actually does most of the talking, because I've been ill. He is also pretty good at that side of it.
Throat is almost entirely healed. It feels kinda post-sore when I swallow, but doesn't hurt. Coughing less, and seems less intense, but also fe*snip*

JL235

DDs Crappy May
1st May 2012

I'm mostly recovered, except that the sore throat has gotten *far* worse. I've also been coughing so much, my chest now aches.

JL235

DDs Crappy May
1st May 2012

Been so ill this weekend; had the fan heater blasting at me continuously for the last 3 days, and am unable to take deep breaths due to coughing

JL235

Games For Windows
1st May 2012

I keep hearing people complain about it, but I have yet to have any issues, and I think the way it's integrated on top of games is pretty slick.

JL235

Jay's Crappy April
26th April 2012

PMC accepts no liability for causing your head to explode with ooze.

JL235

Socoder vs General Goverment Bullshit
25th April 2012

Sitting on cash isn't always a bad thing, it's a sign of a healthy business. For example Apple is sitting on a huge stockpile of cash due to their recent years of success, which they are now planning to give out to their stockholders.
If banks such as RBS*snip*

JL235

Socoder vs General Goverment Bullshit
23rd April 2012

Additional; I'm not trying to defend these large corporations, or saying it is right to avoid tax. I personally think it's especially shameful when companies such as News International, which makes a huge profit, pays negative tax in the US (they receive m*snip*

JL235

Socoder vs General Goverment Bullshit
23rd April 2012

[quote=Ben]The difference is, if ordinary people fiddle benefits or taxes they would end up in jail, with every right wing newspaper in the UK calling them a scrounger.
When huge multinationals do it they get a letter asking them if they don't mind paying*snip*

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Socoder vs General Goverment Bullshit
23rd April 2012

Google's taxes, being done via Ireland, actually makes a lot of sense. That is where they are based in the EU, and their main EU datacentre is outside Dublin.
The businessman who used the private jet trick didn't sleep each night outside the UK. He only d*snip*

JL235

begginer needing help makeing a animated sprite from a sprite sheet
21st April 2012

It can also be useful to have all frames, such as movement and attack, the same size. Any unused space you keep as transparent.
That way when you switch from movement to attack, you just change your sheet, and it all works seamlessly. You don't have to wo*snip*

JL235

rpg style house
21st April 2012

This looks excellent btw.
Out of interest, what did you use to draw it, and how long did it take?

JL235

Maintaining the same timing on different systems
21st April 2012

Shroom is right, about using delta time, although I believe I use a different approach.
In an ideal and perfect world, my game would run at 60fps. So the time for 1 ideal frame would be 1/60 (1 second divided by 60 frames).
You then get the actual amount*snip*

JL235

Apple Cover
19th April 2012

It is an iPad cover, but it's only one side, which is why the edges aren't neat. I've got my mother to knit the whole thing.
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