February 2012
2 posts
Flurry: Mobile Application Analytics →
Open Cubic Player (OpenCP) on Mac OS X →
Wow, I just installed Open Cupic Player on my Mac! It’s nice to use this classic program on a new system after more than, what, maybe 10 years? Its module playback routine imho is one of the best ever written, I prefer it to the one in Milkytracker.
Unfortunately it misses a bunch of features the original had (graphical screens etc), but the experience is still cool.
It was ported to...
January 2012
1 post
Pixel Perfection: Showcase of Inspired Pixel Art →
December 2011
6 posts
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2D Drawing in OpenGL →
How to set up 2D projection in OpenGL.
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Solarized - Precision colors for machines and... →
In the making for Xcode!
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iPhone OpenGL Speed Tip – Turn Off Thumb... →
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atMonitor →
Mac OS X System Monitor and Process Explorer Tool
Wow, I’ve been a long-time MenuMeters user, but today I found something similar, but at least as cool app called atMonitor. I was particularly looking for a GPU-usage monitor, and this baby can do it and much, much more. And you know what? It’s free! The developer(s) definitely deserve some donation/support.
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How to convert an integer to a hexadecimal string...
int number = 42; stringstream ss; ss << hex << number; // now ss.str(), which is a string, contains "2a"
The Ultimate Indie Game Developer Resource List →
November 2011
2 posts
How to mix C and C++ →
Basic Interactive Logic Design Elements →
October 2011
5 posts
3 tags
BIN to ISO on Mac OS X
Are you looking for a free, open-source program to convert your BIN file(s) to ISO? Look no further, here’s binchunker to the rescue!
http://he.fi/bchunk/
The linked site contains the source code, but if you’re interested in a version (1.2) compiled for Mac OS X (Intel), then grab it from here.
Setting Mac OS X font smoothing to light
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 1
Online Color Scheme Designer →
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VBinDiff — Visual Binary Diff →
VBinDiff (Visual Binary Diff) displays files in hexadecimal and ASCII (or EBCDIC). It can also display two files at once, and highlight the differences between them.
Awesome!
mda VST plug-in source codes →
September 2011
5 posts
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Blender 3D: Noob to Pro →
Recommended online Blender tutorial
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Minimalistic Processing.js online IDE →
Awesome!
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Flower - made in Processing
Move mouse over the image to change parameters
You can download the binaries (Mac/Win) as well as the sources here.
source: (not so polished, but you get the idea)
int halfw;
int halfh;
void setup()
{
size(480,350);
halfw = width/2;
halfh = height/2;
smooth();
}
float d = 0.0;
float PICONST = 2 * PI / 380;
void draw()
{
float szirom = 10;
float mouseXconst =...
Donut math: how donut.c works →
A nice tutorial about the background of donut.c, covering topics like perspective projection, z-buffering, rotation matrices and some other useful stuff, wrapped up with a Javascript re-implementation of the original C code.
August 2011
1 post
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WatchShort demo of Zajal’s live coding, graphics and export functionality. See more sketches at sketch.zajal.cc Get the language at zajal.cc
July 2011
1 post
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Porting Color Themes to Xcode 4 →
June 2011
2 posts
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UIView + position →
Placing and moving your views can be a little tricky if you don’t know the details of UIView’s frame, bounds, and center properties. This post gives a quick intro to those along with a useful category for working with them (code link below) called UIView+position.
Thanks to the author!
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Polycode →
Polycode is a free, open-source, cross-platform framework for creative code. You can use it as a C++ API or as a standalone scripting language to get easy and simple access to accelerated 2D and 3D graphics, hardware shaders, sound and network programming, physics engines and more.
May 2011
2 posts
Create a RAM Disk in Mac OS X →
diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "ramdisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://1165430`
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wonderfl - build flash online →
April 2011
5 posts
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Dive into HTML5 →
Interesting website about HTML5, its history, background and some very useful technical details that are just good to know.
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Jason Davies' JS Toys →
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Introduction to Pixel Bender (Part 1) by Lee... →
Part 2
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AS3 hidden treasure in the mm.cfg file. Revealing... →
OK guys, this is awesome. If you’re a hardcore AS3/Flash developer, this might be a great source of quasi-undocumented Flash player settings for you. Check it out!
Ps: also a cool source of information about the inner workings of the Flash player is a video by Jim Corbett, an Adobe Flash player engineer that you can find ->here<-, it’s titled “Flash Player Internals...
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Bitwise gems – fast integer math →
March 2011
6 posts
4 tags
WatchThe creative Flash scene is amazing. I really enjoy watching presentations from various Flash events to be inspired by the talented speakers.
In the following weeks I’d like to share a couple of videos from such events with you. The first one is by Ralph Hauwert, presented at the Flash Camp Tokyo in 2010. I’m especially happy to see the demoscene mentioned in the video. The talk is...
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Making openframeworks v0.062 work with Xcode 3.2.5
Recently I wanted to do some creative coding with openframeworks on iOS and OS X, but the installation of the library didn’t go flawlessly. Here’s a short summary how to get version 0.062 to work with Xcode 3.2.5 on Mac OS X 10.6.6:
download the openframeworks package from the official website: http://www.openframeworks.cc/download (direct link to file)
extract it to an arbitrary...
Fontsquirrel →
In need for a nice font for your project? Fontsquirrel is a nice place to check around for free, commercially usable fonts.
opensourcecms.com →
CMS demos & information. Very useful site if you’re looking for a suitable CMS for your needs.
The Case of the Malicious Autostart →
A very interesting story about the discovery and removal of a Windows malware using Sysinternals tools.
February 2011
2 posts
cdto →
“Fast mini application that opens a Terminal.app window cd’d to the front most finder window. This app is designed (including it’s icon) to placed in the finder window’s toolbar.”
What Easter Eggs have you placed in code? →
Funny thread on Stackoverflow about easter eggs.
Update: for some stupid reason, stackoverflow removed the thread, but luckily there are mirrors of the original thread available on the internetz. Here’s one.
January 2011
4 posts
4 tags
Getting the UDID of an iOS device
[[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier]
Resize a UIImage the right way →
Creating a big red button - iPhone →
A great thread on stackoverflow.com with many awesome button images. Excellent resource!
CG Cookie →
A online Computer Graphics education site that offers free video and written education.
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
1 post
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Enabling C++ constructor calling from Objective C →
October 2010
7 posts
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MBProgressHUD →
MBProgressHUD, a free, open source iOS activity indicator view.
Getting stdout in a Cocoa app? →
Getting a useful stack trace from NSException →
40+ Useful Online Generators For Web Designers →
Cool!