tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355841482024-03-14T05:46:57.787+11:00Geek GlueWhere FUD meets CRUDgeekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.comBlogger200125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-42700719690756825102010-04-08T10:10:00.003+10:002010-04-08T10:53:51.050+10:00Drupal 6 multi-site single sign-onI've just spent the last two days looking into setting up single sign-on across multiple sites under a shared domain. I looked at both the Multisite Login and Single sign on modules but in the end the solution was achieved without either of these modules. Multisite Login correctly notes in the README : "if you are using several sites on the same domain then you do not need this module. The geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-45971571747030693382009-07-27T06:42:00.004+10:002009-07-27T20:53:00.232+10:00New Game : Balance Of PowerAfter many months of hard work and heartache my latest game Balance of Power is finally available. This game is a real departure from my last two games Wheel of Death and Perpetual Motion (both using the Box2D physics engine). Balance Of Power is a turn based strategy game. While most games are about resource depletion : a resource called health. Balance of Power is about resource geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-53861905441762536372009-07-16T08:23:00.004+10:002009-07-16T08:38:33.811+10:00RSS vs TwitterLike a lot of people I started out very sceptical about the value of Twitter and have gradually been drawn in. I'm finding more and more useful ways to use Twitter. I don't really get the desperate pursuit of followers but have found very real value in following a small number of reliable streams. For example, I can't imagine that I would ever stop following abcnews. But I'm still very geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-76310270445285674402009-04-25T12:24:00.003+10:002009-04-26T14:32:58.542+10:00The Reid iPhone ReaderA growing category of iPhone apps is the eReader. Obviously they aren't as common as games and fart jokes but they are a lot more useful. Though I imagine many wouldn't consider the idea of reading books on the iPhone. Some of this is just nostalgia (the smell of the book etc) and some has to do with a poor experience trying to read on a computer screen. But I've read a few books using Stanza (mygeekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-34573638007357870752009-03-08T11:50:00.003+11:002009-03-08T12:00:38.340+11:00Perpetual Motion : WalkthroughA while back (OK 11 months and 2 weeks ago) my Perpetual Motion game was released. It is now available on 180 different sites and has been played 270,000+ times. It's probably a bit late but now I've finally re-done my website it seemed a good time to publish a walkthrough for Perpetual Motion. It's a bit of a task so I'm publishing one level a day until all 36 are complete (level 8 was geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-44334141599079746222009-03-08T11:27:00.002+11:002009-03-08T11:49:22.218+11:00GeekGlue Site UpdateOver the last couple of years my GeekGlue website has become increasingly out of step with my current interests. I've been thinking more and more about how I should use that space. In the last year I've become very interested in casual gaming and have (as noted on this blog) published a couple of games. Therefore I started to think that I would like to use the GeekGlue site to support my gamegeekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-92086025030752632232009-02-13T11:32:00.002+11:002009-02-13T12:03:14.468+11:00Kindle 2 vs iPhone StanzaA few weeks ago I joined the growing throng of Apple fanboys and signed up for an iPhone. The main reason was that my last phone was one of the great GUI disasters of all time. It took about 8 button clicks to delete a single SMS message and similar hoops for many other common actions. So this time I was determined to get a phone that didn't make you want to throw it firmly into concrete aftergeekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-8332793802158324112009-01-16T09:09:00.001+11:002009-01-16T14:54:54.369+11:00Melbourne JoomlaDay 2009Melbourne JoomlaDay 2009 will take place at Melbourne University on Saturday 7th February and Sunday 8th February. From the site :"Joomla is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody. Visit Joomla's official website.Beginners will geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-79960712281374490702009-01-15T08:14:00.002+11:002009-01-15T08:31:25.240+11:00Zamak : Peugot AdZamak is perhaps one of the worlds top designers of 3D characters. Mostly I've seen them as images on his blog. This morning Zamak has published a very cool Peugot ad using his robotic characters :geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-18426324337264377872009-01-14T09:03:00.000+11:002009-01-14T09:04:28.631+11:00Adobe Stratus beta launchedAdobe have launched a new communication protocol(RTMFP) and the Adobe Stratus service (beta) to enable the development of applications using the protocol. Real-Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) uses UDP "whose low latency, end-to-end peering capability, security, and scalability make it especially well suited for developing real-time collaboration applications by not only providing superior user geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-17500811809100268242008-12-11T08:14:00.003+11:002008-12-11T08:23:40.768+11:00Google Native ClientOR Changing the web one press release at a timeGoogle have released a new experimental browser plugin called Native Client that allows embedded application to interact with the operating system. Traditionally browser to OS interaction has been severely constrained for security reasons. Plugins that have attempting to provide more options for interaction have proven to be highly insecure. geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-41041904710517888852008-11-18T08:42:00.000+11:002008-11-18T08:43:54.017+11:00Web Developer IDE's Like a very large percentage of the worlds web developers I've been using Dreamweaver as my main Developer IDE for many years. Recently I've started to do some of my web development in Eclipse due to some handy Javascript and PHP plugins. But I still go back to Dreamweaver for CSS and FTP ( there is a plugin for enabling FTP in Eclipse but it needs more time and patience than I have to geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-37874971701358767942008-10-26T15:24:00.002+11:002008-10-26T15:28:03.109+11:00Flash NumericStepper : Setting the Background ColorHave you ever wanted to customize the appearance of the NumericStepper component in Flash (it's pretty easy in Flex). Specifically I wanted to change the color of the text input area. Looking at the NumericStepper class there is some mention of the upSkin and I tried setting this the way I would normally set a button upSkin but with no effect. So I started looking into how the component is geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-33254685783302643352008-10-16T08:56:00.006+11:002008-10-16T09:39:10.969+11:00Perpetual Motion : My New GameA few days ago we (myself and the nice people over at King.com) published my latest game : Perpetual Motion. This new game has much in common with my first physics based game : Wheel of Death. In Wheel Of Death you had to arrange props to get the wheel to the goal. Walls, bus and various other obstacles provided variety to the levels. Box2D was used as the physics engine to allow some geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-78563894811809162602008-10-01T08:03:00.001+10:002008-10-03T22:46:56.955+10:00OzFlex October Meeting : Andrew Spaulding presents CS4If you didn't make it to last weeks launch of Adobe Creative Suite 4 then you might be interested in joining Adobe's Andrew Spaulding as he presents an "exciting, fast‑paced, developer focused session on Adobe’s latest line‑up of their flagship Creative Suite products, and how they interface with Flex & AIR". This event will be hosted as part of OxFlex's October meetup and will take place at geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-89140854166724840432008-09-25T22:26:00.000+10:002008-09-25T22:27:49.249+10:00Melbourne CS4 Launch DebriefI've just left the Melbourne Adobe Creative Suite 4 launch. I have to say I'm a bit surprised. It was unlike any product launch I've been to in the past. Essentially it was a half hour tour of the top new features followed by an open bar. Some were disappointed by the brevity of the presentation hoping for a more detailed overview of the release. Personally it seemed a clever idea. Everyonegeekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-80580641465150847092008-09-10T08:21:00.001+10:002008-09-10T08:22:51.237+10:00Google Homepage Word Count and SEOMarissa Mayer is one of the people responsible for the Google homepage and I just discovered a fascinating post from her on the Official Google Blog. It seems that a series of emails lead Marissa to become very aware of the number of words that Google uses on it's homepage. This lead them to adopt a 28 word policy. That means they use no more than 28 words on the basic Google homepage. geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-73715685702337684092008-09-08T08:27:00.004+10:002008-09-08T08:44:10.584+10:00Adobe CS4 FeaturesEarly last week the news emerged of a Adobe special event in late September. The invites were quite secretive but by the end of the week the news was out that this was a "launch" event for Creative Suite 4. Details of the new release are still under wraps but there have been a number of sneak peaks and lab releases offering some insight into this upcoming release. I'd like to claim I've done ageekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-34505586419176378672008-08-19T08:21:00.002+10:002008-08-19T08:27:36.466+10:00Silverlight : the Pro's and Con'sTim Anderson from The Register has posted one of the best Silverlight overviews to date. In "Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it" he provides a clear, factual and common sense approach to assessing the value of Silverlight. There is also an older post "Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it" that you might want to take a look at while you are geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-79554261983345683822008-08-07T08:12:00.002+10:002008-08-07T08:31:03.693+10:00Cairngorm : Makes a few announcementsThere has been no shortage of discussion about Cairngorm over the last twelve months. In particular there has been a lot of discussion comparing Cairngorm with the other Flex frameworks that have been, and continue to emerge. But there has been surprisingly few announcements from the Cairngorm team. That all changed yesterday with a lengthy posting by both Alistair Mcleod and Steven Webster. geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-24793070556803233452008-07-23T06:25:00.003+10:002008-07-23T06:36:54.832+10:00Frameworks : Cairngorn, Mate, Swiz & GaiaJust a quick post to share a couple of useful and interesting recent posts relating to Flex Frameworks. First up Andrew Powell has written a big picture overview comparing Cairngorn, Mate and Swiz. He notes :"I think that Cairngorm will make more sense to developers coming from the Java world. Developers coming to Flex from ColdFusion would probably be much more comfortable in Mate, due to its geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-34823318061883170082008-07-18T08:13:00.002+10:002008-07-18T08:43:13.632+10:00Drupal Services & FlexA current project at work is integrating Drupal & Flex together. There are a number of benefits to using these systems together. For me the main one is that you can offer the usability richness that Flex allows and the accessibility that standards based CMS's like Drupal offer without a lot of extra work.The Drupal modules that make this possible are Services and AMFPHP. With these two geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-16057786870511316142008-07-16T08:51:00.002+10:002008-07-16T08:56:04.399+10:00Gumbo (Flex 4) goes betaAdobe has just released a beta version of Gumbo, the next version of Flex. Gumbo is being developed around three primary themes:Design in Mindprovide a framework meant for continuous collaboration between designer and developerDeveloper Productivityimprove compiler performance and add productivity enhancements to language features like data bindingFramework Evolutiontake advantage of new Flash geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-69196348492138883942008-07-15T13:43:00.001+10:002008-07-15T13:45:21.037+10:00Google and Radiohead's House of CardsRadiohead and Google have released a clip of "House of Cards" that uses no cameras or lights. The clip consists entirely of 3D data created using Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. "Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35584148.post-48188564503969731202008-06-18T08:56:00.003+10:002008-06-18T09:00:11.246+10:00Adobe CardsA friend just sent a link to one of the most exceptional Flash animations I've seen in a few years. It's a promotional site for Adobe Creative Suite and involves playing cards and a lot of hard work. Check it out (wait until the loader reaches the end and then pull the red slider all the way to the right ) :http://www.adobecards.com/ geekgluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07314517484924731883noreply@blogger.com1