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Free spins for everyone! Whooo! The game is in debug mode so the number of free spins you get at the beginning is set to maximum. Normally the free spins would accrue over time as you play the game.

I am currently working on an iOS game, developed in Unity, for release around the end of January on the iOS app store. iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 is the initial release target, and then an enhanced version for iPad and then on to Android. I thought I would show off the early beta release… Click this link to read the rest of “Lucky Ace Slots – My next iOS game.”

Just some super simple game prototypes I put together for helping people out on the Unity forums.   Snowboarding Demo The Core   Video Poker Word Search Zombies Zombie Zeppelin Defense

Looks like I have managed to snag a place at Angelhack 2012 in Los Angeles this coming December over at CrossCampus. If you are going to be there and need a back-end/front-end software engineer for your team, hit me up.

This morning I was fiddling around with the Atlassian BitBucket REST API so that I could display my list of Open Source projects on my website (you can find them in the sidebar) and it was driving me completely nuts. The unhelpful “Resource not found” (404) error message kept coming back even though it looked… Continue reading the remainder of “BitBucket REST API is completely case-sensitive.”

I’ve got Kiln, Mercurial, TortoiseSVN, SlikSVN, Git and TortoiseHg all installed on my Windows 7 workstation and they all hate each other and won’t play nice at times. A couple of weeks ago I updated Mercurial, didn’t give it much thought but started noticing two glaring error messages in my console window: *** failed to… Continue reading the remainder of the article

Need a quick and dirty way to see what results WordPress XMLRPC calls are returning from the server? Try curl, the Swiss army knife of command-line network tools. The CURL Command For Windows: curl -d “<?xml version=\”1.0\”?> <methodCall> <methodName>wp.getUsersBlogs</methodName> <params> <param> <value>username</value> </param> <param> <value>password</value> </param> </params> </methodCall>” http://otakunozoku.com/xmlrpc.php For Linux: curl -d ‘<?xml version=”1.0″?>… Craving to get the rest of “Using curl to debug WordPress XMLRPC calls?” Click on this link!

Got a folder full of images that need to be converted from one format to another? Use Image Magick and do in a few seconds what it could take hours in Photoshop or other image editing applications to achieve. One of the simplest ways to convert a directory full of images from one format to… Click this link to read the remainder of “How To Batch Convert Images With Image Magick.”

For the past few years I have been using the InstantRails package as my workhorse for developing PHP applications. Not sure why it started that way, but that’s how it has remained for quite some time. Today I took it in to my head to try out EasyPHP to see if it suited my needs…. Click here to continue reading the remainder of “WordPress And EasyPHP on Windows 7.”

This post isn’t about carpentry, it’s about Apple. A bad carpenter blames his tools. A good carpenter blames his tools, but for different reasons. A bad carpenter will blame his tools uncritically when he can’t achieve the end effect that he desires, because he lacks the skill, the know-how and the wherewithal to produce the… Continue reading the rest of the post