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Mac Crash & Wouldn’t Save the Clock Time or Wifi Passwords

The macbooks, although you can use as intended, closed, with the cinema display as your primary display cannot get heat out very well due to the poor design of where the exhaust is. It’s right infront of the screen. So when its close, the air can’t escape. Anyway today it overheated, alot, because the heat

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AS3 Basics: Condensing if Statements (aka shorthand)

AS3 Basics: Condensing if Statements (aka shorthand)

In this tutorial I’ll teach you how to write condensed if statements. and some other methods of doing comparisons.

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Time zone conversion in java

Time zone conversion in java

Welcome lonely wanderer, you have stumbled upon the knowledge for timezone handling in the Java catacombs. This has been tried and tested and works on Android to so hopefully this will help you with the tricky task of server datetime -> local device datetime.

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ScheduleDroid, Tweet Scheduler for Android. What we learned.

We give you a lot of great programming advice on this blog, but we wanted to show you how we sometimes put our knowledge to use. You may know we have already released “MarketMeTweet” – our desktop app for Twitter, but here’s our first mobile twitter app.  To get this lovely app done we used [...]

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PHP Basics : Removing White Space / HTML Tags From A String

Hey Wuup readers. I’ve got a simple post here for those learning PHP, or even the more seasoned programmer. If you’re looking for a simple way to to remove white space from strings, and strip html tags from strings too, try this out. It can be handy if you don’t want people to abuse a form [...]

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Rapid Prototyping

Some of you may be familiar with rapid prototyping. It is a concept i learnt from the Experimental gameplay project, specifically this article by Kyle Gabler, Kyle Gray (2D Boy, World of Goo), Matt Kucic, Shalin Shodhan.

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How to Upset People on Facebook – Tagging Abuse

How to Upset People on Facebook – Tagging Abuse

Recently, can’t say if I’m the first, probably not. But I have been finding new and exciting ways to annoy people on Facebook, and abuse the Facebook application in each and every way I know how. Though it’s quite funny because when people realise what I’m doing they repeat it and thus lots more people [...]

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PHP String Functions

PHP String Functions

I’ve been doing an awful lot of string manipulation so I thought I would make todays article about the PHP functions I use most regularly for cleaning up and manipulating content entry.

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Simple JQuery Expandable Content Box

Just recently I have had to finally bite the bullet and learn some proper Javascript. Not just making text in input boxes disappear when the user clicks on them, I’m talking PROPER stuff like making boxes appear and disappear inside already existing content.

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Starting Your Own Business

As you all know, we’re having a bit of a bumpy ride economically lately, and although there is talk of a recovery, we all know someone who has been laid off, about to be laid off, and will be laid off in the coming weeks. These days the BBC is littered with stories about people [...]

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