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    Unity is certainly getting more and more popular, and with the (limited time) release of Unity iOS and Android for free, the number of people interested in Unity is sure to rise.  Along with the increase in popularity of Unity, there has been an influx of Unity books.     Therefore I put […]

    Have you ever read a technical book and thought to yourself “Man, the author of this book must be a gigantic jerk!”?  I can honestly say, I never have until now!     This review of sorts covers two different Javascript books I’ve read recently; two very different books with two very different […]

    Adobe has recently made Photoshop CS 6 available as beta, which will last until CS6 is released.  In order to activate, you need to have an Adobe ID ( freely available ) within 7 days of installing.  The Mac installer is now 64bit only and weighs in at just under 1GB, while the […]

    Hey, I’m on time this time! Well, almost…     This weeks cool thing is in an area where there aren’t too many options, audio capture and manipulation tools.  On the “pro” side, the dominant player is probably Pro-Tools, which is in a word expensive.  With pricing starting at 700$ and going up […]

    As my journey with Appcelerator continues, I’ve run into another annoyance, and the fix wasn’t immediately obvious.  Titanium Studio ships with an Android 2.2 image pre-configured, although I am trying to develop for Ice Cream Sandwich ( Android 4 ).  The problem is, every time I launch my application, it would ignore the […]

      So I have decided to give Appcelerator Titanium a shot for a cross platform mobile project I am working on.  If you are previously unaware of Appcelerator, it is basically a cross platform framework where you program in Javascript and can natively target a number of mobile devices including Android, iOS or […]

    In part 1 we look at a very basic example of sending information across the wire from SFML to NodeJS.  In part 2 we looked at JSON encoding high score data, that is then sent via UDP socket to a Node server.  Now we complete the process, by having Node return high score […]

    Picking up where our last section left off, by the end of this chapter you will be able to send a high score across the wire and process it in node.  In order to do this, we need to create a common format both our client and server understand.  In this particular case […]

    As I mentioned earlier, I have recently discovered Node.JS.  Quick version, Node is a server side Javascript engine, allowing you to easily create applications on the server.  Obviously you could use SFML on both the client and the server but many people find Javascript a much faster language to work with.  The libraries […]

    Back in November, Sony rather shockingly announced the closed beta of a C# based developer kit for PlayStation™Certified devices, which include their Xperia Play and more importantly, the Playstation Vita and their as of yet unreleased Playstation tablet.  Then nothing… complete silence.  Rumour suggested a 1000$ price tag, which was reasonable in regards […]