Generic Game

>> Saturday, April 24, 2010

BIP is 60% finished, and my first project with it, may be an overkill, aiming to improve it, (although it does not requires a tile map! which is what BIP is needing right now) I'll make a fighting game, but i want the game to be somehow like MUGEN, so you can customize the characters, each attack, animation, etc. I have interesting ideas, which I will post if i succeed with the first steps. Whish me luck!

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BIP - Managers

>> Thursday, April 22, 2010

I added a Sprite Manager and Audio Manager to BIP, now is very easy to load and play sounds. The Sprite Manager basically is a Vector with many sprites, so is easier to update and draw them all, is somewhat similar to DarkGDK way of managing sprites if you want to think it like that, you can check for collision doing something like this:

if(manager.pixelCollide(1, 5)) { /* Collision! */ }

That will check for collision between sprites 1 and 5.
Also I added a Button class inside the "gui" package, it's a very basic abstract class, the way you make buttons will be inherit from that class, and define your own actionPerformed method, then just call it with an image and a location, and optionally an image for the hover state.

BIP seems to be doing pretty nice so far, so I'm planning on using it in a small project now, which do not need tiled maps, to test it and improve it.

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CodeIgniter

>> Monday, March 29, 2010

CodeIgniter is a PHP framework, which is pretty fast and easy to learn.
Not many years ago I didnt really care much about frameworks, i had my little nice set of functions I collected during the years, and I didn't have much problems editting and creating new sites, but for some reason I decided to try frameworks.
I have always liked open source, so I really liked the idea of people sharing their awesome functionality, and if you dont have much experience with MVC starting with CodeIgniter is a great option! It takes like 30 minutes to read the begginer documentation, and then you have awesome reference, you may develop a bit slower first, but later you will do it faster! And in a very scalable way!
What is nice about using frameworks is that if it's a project where more than one person works (Including MVC advantages already) you know what to edit, you know what to do already, no need to lose time reading what other programmer structure is!
It has many many advantages, I will just say, i recommend it!
I have used for my last projects and it works flawlessly! I also like sharing my own libraries :) I made an excel plugin, to export an xls file.
Anyways! If you develop on PHP, i would say this is a very nice tool!

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Color Getter

>> Tuesday, March 23, 2010


About
This is a little program I made for my girlfriend (Alba ♥!) and i really liked helping her, also the program ended up very nicely, she had a very good idea!
The program is in spanish but you can make an idea easily :)

What is it about?
Well my girlfriend had a problem, she sometimes wanted to get the color of something on her screen, but it takes way too long to take a screenshot, open photoshop, zoom and then extract the color, so this program makes it easy! It's simplistic as i like my programs to be!

Here you can see the main window, you just click there to take a screenshot, a new window will open with the screenshot and more options!


That is a screenshot of my desktop (Yes, i use Windows XP) just click anywhere to get the color, your cursor will change to a crossair, you have three buttons there also, you can zoom with those if its hard to get the color you want!
You can get my program clicking the following links:
Hope you find it useful! Special thanks to my girlfriend, Alba, for her great idea! ♥

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GoFTP

>> Friday, February 5, 2010

GoFTP is my new favourite FTP client, for one main reason, its fast, and i mean FAST, you can see a chart at GoFTP website but for me that i have to work with a lot of joomla sites, download and upload them, it's very nice, i definitely reccommend it.
Quoting GoFTP website here are a list of nice features
  • "Instant Connect" Technology
  • "Instant Directory" Technology
  • Multi-connection transfers for maximum bandwidth utilization !!
  • On the fly file compression for amazing transfer speeds !!
  • You simply have to try this FTP program to believe it.
Just try it, you wont regret ;)

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