December 23, 2008

Multiton base class

While I like the Singleton pattern every now and then, I prefer the flexibility that the Multiton potentially offers, and well it's just an extended version of the Singleton, so it's "compatible"...

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November 28, 2008

The joys of user stylesheets

User stylesheets are a way to inject some CSS in all the sites you visit, each browser has his own way of setting it up (if you use opera step 2 there should be replaced with: "Tools > Preferences...

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October 24, 2008

Dwoo v1.0 is out

Now that Dwoo's user base has grown a bit and that I've received enough feedback and fixed quite a bunch of bugs and design flaws, I feel confident it's time to go stable, so here comes Dwoo v1.0.0...

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August 2, 2008

Installing Habari on Lighttpd

Just a small post about Habari installation over Lighttpd, since it is not really documented anywhere that I could find. I will assume that you know how to run php scripts on your server, and start...

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May 13, 2008

Who let the Dwoo out ?

Four months have passed since I started on this project and I finally feel that it is stable enough to make an announcement and have more people trying it. So what is it ? Dwoo is a PHP5 template...

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March 13, 2008

Random Seeds - Ordering Disorder

Randomness is great, that's a fact, it's very useful in many areas of programming, and is especially good to build non-repetitive games. However in some cases, it's useful to be able to reproduce...

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December 21, 2007

AS3 and the Display List, addChildAt magic.

ActionScript 3 introduced the Display List, which is the new version of the old depth system that AS1/2 had, and the Display Objects, which replace the MovieClip, but extending the idea a lot since...

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December 18, 2007

PHP RSS Generator

As part of my work on my CMS (and website as this site is running on it), I decided to code a RSS feed builder. This could easily be made as a standalone class so I thought I would share it. The...

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December 16, 2007

Heat maps drawing in Flash

Someone was looking for help to draw Heat Maps in Flash this afternoon on #flash and as I found the matter interesting I gave it a shot. I managed to do it by drawing grey circles with 1-5%...

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November 30, 2007

ActionScript 3 Language file for GeSHi

As I wanted to post AS3 code with syntax coloring, I researched it a bit and found GeSHi, a PHP syntax highlighter, for which you can create language files quite easily. There is currently no AS3...

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