Ever heard of Magic: The Gathering? Essentially, it’s a trading card game where players build their decks from a set of printed cards and then play each other; while strategy and skill play the biggest roles, luck is a determining factor as in any other card game.
During the past few days I’ve been work on a new Android app; one thing I find very, very important is to make any software look native to the platform it’s running on, and doing that on Android needed some work.
When I wanted to preview a sequence of large images, I decided to go for a lightbox plugin, but I also wanted a better way to see the fine details than having to open the full image.
I was in need of a tiny web server for one of my projects, and I found out that Java 1.6 actually comes with one!
So, once you’ve setup your Octopress blog, where do you host it? I decided to go for CloudFront/S3; again, there were some flaws, so here’s my experience!
When I had to decide what blog publisher to use, I decided to go for Octopress, as it generates static files, making the blog faster and safer; however, installing it on Windows was not as straightforward as it could be, so this post details what I had to do.