I’m not a massive fan of Twitter; I find the majority of tweets pointless, and sifting through the rubbish to find the worthwhile ones gets annoying after a while.
I’d almost given up, in fact, until I got into the beta of TweetDig. TweetDig is yet another Twitter interface, but yet it feels different. So different, in fact, I’ve given Twitter another go.
TweetDig is a simple Twitter interface, aiming to be the buffer between you and Twitter.
I know, I’ve raved about Sublime Text 2 before, but now that it’s fully integrated into my workflow (and I even own a license for it!), I thought I’d share my most used packages for it.
Twittoh is a mini project I created with Chris Willerton. He took the lead on the design and HTML/CSS, and I coded the twitter bits.
I’m a NetBeans user, but recently I’ve found it to be too bloated and slow. Then I heard about Sublime Text 2, which promised to be a
“sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose. You’ll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features”
Well, I thought, it doesn’t hurt to give it a go, and I’m glad I did. Here are my pros and cons so far.
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I’ve actually written up a more complete tutorial, which has been published on Nettuts+. You should go and read that instead!
Trying to set up AJAX file uploading within CodeIgniter can be a serious pain. I tried multiple scripts before settling on one that actually worked, so if you’re having trouble, keep on reading.
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I’ve done a silly thing; I’ve created another jQuery popup/lightbox script. I’m not usually one to reinvent the wheel, I’d much rather use someone else’s probably superior code, but this time I needed something a little different (much like with TF Assets).
TF Popup is a jQuery plugin aimed at developers. It gives you full theming control and is really flexible; it can be used for simple information modal popups, to full login/registration forms complete with validation.
It includes a small API to help when validating your form, doing a lot of the display leg work for you.
One thing I dislike about CodeIgniter is the way it handles views and assets; it can get very messy as your site grows. I did used to use Bucket, which I’ve blogged about before, but I found the overhead for some features I didn’t use (and couldn’t seem to get to work) too much.
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I’ve been doing a lot of work recently using various APIs, including creating some myself, and I’ve noticed quite a few seem to have annoying traits.
I mainly work with REST APIs, so this post will focus on them; although most of the points can be transferred across to others.
Thinking about all the sequels currently being released (Killzone 3, MvC3, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Crysis 2 etc), I got to wondering about the forgotten games that would be amazing if recreated using current gen tech.
