Rabidgremlin's Soapbox

A few months ago, I had a group of friends over.

Oops it has been a while since I last posted but I have actually been working on the game!

As this slightly over the top presentation shows adding motion, bounce and wiggle to your game elements can really make a game feel rich and alive: Luckily this is easy to achieve with the GoKit tweening library that is included with Futile.

Next up is some “boring” housekeeping work on the code.

So I need to find some words, more importantly I need a list of words that gradually gets more and more difficult to guess.

So I’ve decided to knuckle down and build AND actually release a game.

Yeah you read that right.

My Romo smartphone robot turned up yesterday!

This tutorial is out of date.

I recently built a fairly rich web application from the ground up.

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[oops I totally forgot to post this sooner!]

Just finished up Day 2 which was spent in the Games Master class.

Just a quick post to cover my first day at Animfx.

Yesterday I read Lance Wiggs’ post on making everyone in NZ part of the 1% which I believe is a fantastic idea.

The Skynet Bill is passed.

Well, I received a response from Auckland Transport about my Auckland Train Signage FAIL post.

I’ve received a couple of interesting emails recently from people asking for advice.

I’m an avid user of the trains in Auckland.

This one took a while to find so it’s worthy of a tip :) To use the current live wallpaper as your app’s background, simply set the theme for your activity to @android:style/Theme.Wallpaper in your AndroidManifest.xml: ...

Actually it’s more what I did last month.

Gonna try a new thing here, every week I’m going to post up a quick summary of what I’ve been up to tech wise.

During lunch I was browsing the web and catching up on the news, when I saw this image on an article by TechEye.net: Apparently it is a call-to-arms flyer for Operation Payback which is being run by Anonymous and is an exercise in “retribution” against th…

I was horrified to see that the Department of Homeland Security has begun to seize the domains of copyright infringing websites.

The Android testing framework has the built-in ability to generate a code coverage report for your unit tests.

In the last two months I have written two Android apps, in doing so I have uncovered a number of tricks and quirks which I thought I’d share.

I’ve just released my first purchasable app on the Android market.

Posted by a friend of mine on Facebook… I LMAO: To be more realistic, Star Trek interactions with the computer should have gone more like this: “Computer, hail the Klingons.”

I’ve been meaning to write this bit of software for a while now, its a simple app that dumps out all your playlists in iTunes into .m3u playlist files.

Since Jonah asked for it, I have generated a KML file of the Auckland bus stop data.

A couple of days ago I discovered that Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) make all of their bus schedule data available for download from the maxx.co.nz site.

Came across this fascinating clip about the “Amen Break”, a 5 second sample taken from a 1960 b-side recording by a funk and soul bank.

Over the weekend I published my first flash game, it’s called Jumbler.

Last week, interested by the noise on the interwebs about Facebook and privacy, I put together a small app using Facebook’s API that shows exactly what information you are giving away to Facebook enabled sites.

Well they’re back., those supposed slime moulds that have previously turned up on my lawn.

Well, it has been a while since I posted something meaty, I’ve been kinda doing a lot of micro-blogging and tinkering with other things like my Privacy Check for Facebook, so haven’t really had time to sit down and write a decent post.

I found these fantastic flyers in my hotel lobby this morning.

Earlier this week YouTube officially dropped support for older browsers such as Internet Explorer 6.

I received the following email from Google yesterday.

I've just started GMing the Rogue Trader game (from Fantasy Flight Games) with my regular gaming group and I realised, I needed some way of tracking ships.

Passwords are a pain in the butt, if you use a computer or the Internet then you no doubt have a list of passwords bouncing around in your skull or worse yet a single password that you use everywhere!

I just had to set up a test certificate for my local install of Jboss 4.2.3 to try out some SSL code.

ClearPoint held one of its regular tech-drop get-togethers last night covering Google Wave.

Wow, I have just announced the launch of my pet project: split-the-bill.com I’m feeling excited yet panicked at the same time.

I have an Android G1 Developer phone (based on the HTC Dream) and have had major issues getting MMS to work with the Vodafone network in New Zealand.

Finally got off my butt and packaged up version 1.0.0 of SvnViz.

This is actually more of a note for myself but it may be of use to you.

_Update: The latest images from Microsoft now ONLY work under MS Virtual PC !

One of the most visited posts on my blog is titled “FaceBook:Do you know who is watching you?”

A work colleague just showed me this site (yep its Friday): Greg Rutter’s Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You’re a Loser or Old or Something Its a fantastic collection of Internet sites and video…