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5. Wriging
6. Loose Suits
7. Chixe
8. Dud3s
9. Wing Colors

 

I agree with pretty much all of what you say, but when you want to compare external websites that you have no control over I can't think of any other way.

I shall take a look at compete - thanks for pointing it out :)

I installed it but it doesn't play well with my contact plugin so I can't actually use it. I intend to change my contact plugin to something else as this looks like a really handy little widget.

I tried better comments manager but I didn't like the fact it was on a separate page, it just makes things more cumbersome than they need to be.

Who says bribes don't work. I'm open to offers.

(not really)

Assassins Creed and Call of Duty would be my choices. Never was a big HALO fan (still have all the games though).

I'm thinking about getting the Orange Box but will get it for the pc rather than 360.

I'm not lucky enough to live in London

Lucky? I pay £153 a month for my travel card into London.

Just got to the last dungeon on the Legend of Zelda - Phantom Hourglass. The game is a must have for the DS!

Looking forward too Super Mario Galaxy and Call of Duty 4 in the coming weeks.

Luke - have you seen the plugin I made?

Bm Custom Login

There are loads of people linking to me (so I assume they're using it) and the flickr group has a fair few custom login designs.

I've been thinking about extending the plugin so that it customises the stuff once you're logged in as well. I'm going to wait to see what happens with WP2.4 though as apparently the ui is going to be overhauled for that version.

Another Facebook user here. I have a couple of apps but in general I don't like to add them. As with the others here I just think they clutter the place up. I certainly don't like all those werewolf/ vampire etc apps.

I've developed a couple of apps for work (miniclip.com) as well. One is pretty simple, basically just a page of content, nothing particularly dynamic. The other I can't mention since it's not released yet.

Regarding your manifesto, I think my opinions as a user are not the same as the average user (those who add 50 apps to their pages), and my opinions as a developer vary even more.

I'd be interested to read whatever you come up with.

That's crazy. I'm assuming she knew they were going to burst through the thing so what was she thinking?

David - I guess that's fair enough then :)

I must admit I do quite like going on font hunts, but I don't really have any favorites. I just look for the one that fits.

Like xirclebox I have quite a stack of fonts in my collection so I can generally find something I feel fits well.

Simple answer... yes it's possible.

Long answer... I've never done it so can't give you any code. Off the top of my head you would need to bitmap data stuff then loop through all the pixels in the image and set alpha accordingly. I wonder why you need to do this though, flash supports alpha in images?

Personally I think she should have left it alone. I don't think there were any hints in the book and saying this now does seem a little not because of any issues with gay people but because it's too late - the books are over.

I can't believe she didn't have any idea of the reaction something like this would get but if, as she says, his sexuality doesn't matter - why bring it up now?

Am I the only designer who just goes through font libraries looking for fonts that work?

I've heard of about half those fonts but can only remember using Gill Sans. Maybe it's because I've never spent any time studying fonts and typography properly - and I'm sure I've made technical errors - but I don't see why I would need any of these. Am I missing some big designer secret that they taught on the one sick day I took at University?

Ben, 27, England

I design websites and make online video games. I also run a whole bunch of websites:

• Binary Moon my personal blog
• Binary Joy my gaming news and reviews blog
• Binary Sun my online store, where i try to make some cash selling games (some of which I made)

I have a very sweet tooth and enjoy walks in the country with my wonderful girlfriend.

I also have a beard - please don't hold that against me.

That is so addictive. I'm clicking on all the avatars I can find right now.

Not hand made puzzles but I did the art and design for the free sudoku on Miniclip if anyone is interested (bugs aren't my fault :) ) - you'll have to excuse the farm theme - I wanted to call it MooDoku but was overruled.

If you're someone who plays these a lot I suspect the Miniclip one will be too easy.

I'm almost entirely self taught. If you know AS2 like the back of your hand then you're good to go really, I'd just jump in at the deep end and try to make something.

I'm currently going through the whole AS 3 thing myself - it was confusing at first but I think I've got the main bits worked out now.

One site I would recommend if you're starting with games is

http://www.emanueleferonato.com/

It's got loads of tutorials in it. Most are AS2, and there's little object oriented stuff, but there are loads of flas for download that you can take apart and examine.

I'm not big on books (since you can get so much on the web) but one I would recommend is Foundation "Actionscript 3 Animation: Making Things Move!", the title says animation but it's not meant in the traditional way, it's stuffed full of physics type things that are ideal for games.

The other thing I would suggest is signing up somewhere like Flashkit, Gotoandplay.it, or kirupa.com as those places are stuffed full of knowledgable flash games people.

I have no screensaver. If I leave my computer long enough for one to be required then it puts itself to sleep.

I joined Facebook because it wasn't myspace. However apart from the cleaner design it is slowly turning into myspace so I am going there less and less. I still don't like myspace either but this is an interesting move.

Regarding the 4x the page views, I would guess that's for two reasons. 1) myspace forces you to refresh the page a dozen times to do anything, and 2) myspace is indexed in search engines.

If facebook would open it's pages to be viewable by anyone (optionally of course) I would be more inclined to use it.

I've noticed it too. It's all the old notes being recommended. I think popular notes is good in principle but it doesn't give enough focus to the newer notes.

Maybe it would be better if popular notes limited things to the last 3 months or so?

They already have an avatar system on wordpress.com, and they say they're going to migrate it over to the new system.

This will be great for a standardised avatar system. Maybe I will finally add gravatars to my site...

I thought gravatar had died a death. I always liked the idea of the service but the rubbish performance put me off implementing it. I'm very interested to see what they do with this.

Gnorb - Woohoo... go for it :)

That was quick - Thanks :)

Pokemon... and Excite Truck... and a whole bunch of indie games (to review on Binary Joy :) )

Cool - I was intending to add some "share this" type buttons to my site.

Any chance of a 16x16 icon to match every other "share this" icon? If there's no official one then I'll just resize it myself :)

I think the trailer for Wall-E looks great. The similarities are a little spooky.

Thinking about it technically the only real similarity is the eyes, and getting expressive eyes from objects made with metal is a challenge so I guess logically they would be similar.

I don't care though - Short Circuit was great and I reckon Wall-E will be too.

Wow - that post was written in December last year.

The feature is great though :)

Anyone know of an eta for Firefox 3?