Ben’s WordPress Series – Installation (1)
March 19, 2011
WordPress currently is one of the most popular blogging platforms on the web. With the following brief installation guide, you get an explanation of how to setup your own WordPress installation on your local system or webhost.
PostgreSQL (object-relational DBMS)
January 25, 2011
While MySQL surely is the most-used DBMS throughout the internet, there are alternatives, particularly for enterprise environments. One of these is PostgreSQL, a powerful, open source object-relational database system.
WindowBuilder- A GUI Builder for Eclipse
October 24, 2010
As you might have noticed, Eclipse does not come with a GUI builder. However, there’s no need to worry. Since Eclipse has been built with easy plug-in support in mind, people have written a number of GUI builders available as Eclipse plug-ins.
Why Sonic 4 overall IS a good game
October 23, 2010
As someone who can remember the release-day of Sonic & Knuckles on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive about 16 years ago, I initially wanted to title this blog-post "Sonic 4 – why I could have waited longer". And even though I eventually realised that Sonic 4 is indeed a whole lot of fun, the first 10 minutes have been quite a shock.
Rewriting URLs with mod_rewrite
October 3, 2010
mod_rewrite is a module for the Apache Webserver. One of its most popular features is rewriting lengthy urls into a shorter, more user-friendly form.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could display your own (or someone else’s) Facebook-page-feed on your website? Well, with my PHP myFacebookParser you can!
To allow WordPress to display new Blog-Posts on your Facebook-wall see:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#facebook
For further options, see:
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/12/importing-wordpress-com-post-snippets-into-a-facebook-fan-page/
jQuery: most popular JavaScript framework
June 13, 2010
This article gives a brief introduction to JavaScript, JavaScript frameworks (or libraries) and jQuery as the most popular of these frameworks in particular.
This second tutorial introduces the basics of modelling motion under the influence of an external force by using acceleration. It then goes on to give an outlook on how the connection between acceleration, velocity and position forms a route to animation.
This first tutorial describes the basic relationship between force and acceleration that everybody who seriously wants to get a start on game-physics should be aware of. It then goes on to introduce a common approach to modelling simple motion.
