My Rockchip 2808 Dual Core Android Tablet arrived almost over 3 weeks ago and I have been playing around with it for a enough time to have an opinion about the product. First off, I got the devices from amazon.co.uk for €170 which included delivery, Continue reading ‘Rockchip 2808 Dual Core “aPad” Android Tablet Review’
After a weekend of Guinness, rebel songs, and Kildare football banter, I have finally got around to writing last weeks development diary. During the week the first draft of the design document for the Flax Engine was finished, a stage in the development Carl and myself are quite happy to have completed. Continue reading ‘Flax HTML5 Game Engine Development Diary Part 3′
As Tim Schafer might say, development is slower than molasses going uphill in January. On crutches. While Ciarán got a million and one things documented in the last few days (see?), I’ve mostly been fighting with the design for Weave. And it seems to have stolen my trousers. Continue reading ‘Flax HTML5 Game Engine Development Diary Part 2′
Well, it’s been almost 3 weeks since we started full time work on our HTML5 game engine, Flax. Some of these days have been quite productive and other days the work just came to grinding halt because of technologies we were hoping to use or features that we where hoping to exploit deciding not to work. However, work is progressing quite well now and the design document is starting to come together nicely. Continue reading ‘Flax HTML5 Game Engine Development Diary Part 1′
Recently while cleaning out some of my old files I came across a PHP class project which I, like every programmer, had started but never finished. I started this class about 3 years ago with intentions of building a larger library of functions which could solve different Leaving Cert maths problems. Continue reading ‘PHP algebraic equation function’
The Flax Project is now operating out of the UNUM lab in Carlow Institute of Technology. Thanks to one of our college lecturers, Joseph Kehoe, we have been granted access to this top of the range software development center, so a big thank you to the college and Joe. This week we are busy working on the design document for the Flax Game Engine, and currently Carl is experimenting with the HTML5 audio tag in different browsers and platforms Continue reading ‘Flax Project has a new HQ!’
Let me start this with a warning: If you’re making a website and you think autoplaying audio in the background is a great idea, you’re wrong. Very, very wrong.
Autoplaying audio, especially hidden autoplaying audio, is a terrible idea. Continue reading ‘How to get hidden, autoplaying audio in html5 on iOS’
