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Category Archives: Rant

Password, it’s just not obvious to normal people

As a programmer and all round geek I spend a lot of my time thinking about user interfaces for normal people. This is probably the hardest aspect to programming. Putting yourself in the place of a normal user is, basically, impossible but every programmer/ui designer attempts to do this EVERY day. Why am I talking [...]

Interesting Take on Breakout

Some friends of mine have been working on a ‘breakout’ style game. I put breakout in quotes because it’s not just a simple copy of breakout. They’ve added a lot of cool stuff to the game. It looks stunning and the demo I played about 5 months ago played really well. I’ve not played the [...]

Adobe Flash: Not starting off on the correct foot

I’m about to embark on a learning exercise. I want to get my head around Flash to see if I can enhance New Metal Army. So I go to the Adobe website and click through to product demos… register (why do I have to register for EVERYTHING) and click on the download trial button… firefox [...]