Tonight I’ve been working on stabilising Glyph Designer and adding features such as inner shadows, gradient outlines and the preview panel. They are all pretty much finished now and looking great, so I thought I step away from the code for a moment and put up a couple of screen shots.
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This is one of the many benefits of using drush when working with Drupal. I opened up a project that I was working on locally and had the warning that some of my modules required an upgrade, not only that Drupal core had gone from 6.19 to 6.20.
A quick guide on how to setup drush on a local development environment using MAMP.
Drush is a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, designed to make life easier when working with Drupal.
A quick tutorial on how to setup MAMP to be able to run multiple virtual hosts on your local machine.
Well, it’s been a while since I posted anything constructive about Web Development, what with work and various other projects I have flying around in my head. I was chatting with Mike the other day about the fact that at the agency where I work we are moving over to Drupal, so any new project we take on and any existing ones that want to move, are going to be done in Drupal. At first, I was a little hesitant, not only because it was something else for me to learn, along side learning Magento (sigh!)
Due to demand, we have added 2 more 125×125 advertising slots on the sidebar. We have also added a new 260×125 slot at the top of the adverts section, this will display 1 banner at a time and be a maximum of only 4 banners sold at any time. This slot is priced at $30pm, so get in quick before it fills up :D
If your a regular reader of the blog you’ll know that a good friend of mine, Tom Bradley, is my partner in developing tools such as Particle Designer and Glyph Designer. He was also a technical reviewer on my book. Well, he has been burning the midnight oil and completed his first action game, Snowtel, in time for Christmas.
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Just a quick post to share a sneak peek video of Glyph Designer.
Glyph Designer is another game development tool following in the foot steps of Particle Designer. A tool that I’ve used for some time and that I describe in my book is Hiero. This is a Java based tool that allows you to turn a normal font into both a texture atlas and a control file that describes where the glyphs on that atlas are.
This is something you will be familiar with if you have watched my Bitmap Font tutorial.
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After getting a question on the forum about the SLQTSOR code from the book I found a small problem with SLQTSOR when using a version of iOS that has multitasking. Due to changes in the default behaviour of an app when pressing the home button, the code in the game to save the users preferences was never being run, causing them to be lost.
I’ve posted on the forum how to handle the issue and that post can be found at http://www.71squared.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=495&p=1649#p1649
Mike
I am in the process of moving our blog over to Drupal. The main reason for this is security and I use Drupal on a daily basis in my job.
Learning iOS Game Programming
by Michael Daley
