It’s been a while! I have been busy with work and side projects, and frankly I have been neglecting my blog. But I’m back and, first things first, I have completely rebuilt my website from scratch. 🙂 I’ve kept my old posts intact for posterity, but be warned that they are all quite old at…
Rendering a Tiled TMX map as a 3D World in LibGDX
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but I never got around to it. I was working on a dungeon crawler POC a while back with some friends and we decided to go with LibGDX as our game engine. For those who don’t know, LibGDX has a super cool new 3D API and since we…
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Affordable High-Performance VPS Hosting
I haven’t published anything in quite some time! I am going to try to be in here more often this year, but we will see how busy things get. I recently migrated all of my websites to a new hosting service. I was looking for a VPS solution that I would be able to play with…
Flixel-GDX: A Cross-Platform Flixel Port in Java
Recently while working on teaching myself to work with libgdx, a cross-platform java game development kit, I discovered that someone used it to create a port of Flixel, my favorite ActionScript game engine. The port is called Flixel-GDX. This was great for me because I had worked with Flixel in the past and I loved the…
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How to Fade a Div Without JavaScript
As a programmer I usually go with JQuery solutions when looking for fancy transition effects on the sites that I develop as it’s more familiar ground but while redesigning my own site I decided to try out CSS3’s transition property to make my menu fade in and out. I ran into an issue however and…
What is WordPress and why use it?
Many people are not web savvy and aren’t familiar with what WordPress is. Some people have heard about it but aren’t quite sure of the benefits. In this post, I want to shed some light on what WordPress is and what it can do for you as a website owner. This post is not meant…
Work, Work, Play?
Well, school is out for the summer (I definitely won this semester) but I’ve been keeping busy between work and personal projects. We’re killing it at work, just cranking out better websites every day and I’ve been learning tons about the capabilities of WordPress. First I’m going to talk about that! I’ve been dealing with…