AndyDev

Lifestream

If your reading this on my site you will now notice a ‘Lifestream‘ link. You can see what i’ve been up to for the last 3 days and my last known whereabouts. I decided I wanted somewhere to record what I get up too around the interwebz.

HTML5 Pong

While on my (now daily) look at the html5gallery I came across Dave Rix’s site. Which has a rather neat version of Pong. It’s coded using HTML5’s Canvas and Audio elements, with Javascript to create the game you see before you.

Should you share your location?

I am working on a few new features for this site, one involves showing my ‘last known location’ on a map. Since starting to develop this I have been thinking long and hard about whether you should really share your location on the web.

Wordpress Missed Schedule Error

When scheduling posts within Wordpress you rely on Wordpress to work and get the post published for that time. Unfortunately relying on Wordpress from the word ‘go’ doesn’t always work. In this post I walk through a fix for the ‘Missed Schedule’ error within Wordpress.

iPhone App Review – Ramp Champ

After seeing a tweet this afternoon I downloaded Ramp Champ. Brought to you by the IconFactory, the Icon respoistary site and developers of the popular Twitterific Twitter client. It’s a iTake on the arcade game Skee-ball.

24ways is back!

That’s right it’s that time of year again when we get a fantastic article from those well known within the web industry each day throughout the 24 days leading up to the big day. It describes itself as the advent calendar for web geeks.

Doing it Differently…

Today I was on a course titled ‘Metapod Fast Forward’. At the beggining of the day we were shown the video below. It was shown as an example of how if you change the way a generic ‘in-flight safety’ message is delivered it isn’t simply ignored and talked over. Not only that, but it is quite comical.

Watch the video by clicking ‘Read’.

Why Apple should create a console!

I have for may years been a fan of Apple. A ‘fanboy’ if you like. Now that Apple have ventured into the phone market with the ever successful iPhone, I feel that it is about time that Apple took the plunge into the gaming scene with a console. Not only because i’d buy it but for the various reasons in this post.