Force a wmv to download instead of opening in browser
I recently needed to force a WMV to download using Apache. The default behaviour for most browsers is to try to open the movie inside the browser itself. This works...
Prototype for xna7day competition
I decided to make a game for the xna7day competition, in which we have to make a game that only uses 2 keys, so absolutely no analog input and it...
How to make a clickable div
Making a clickable text or image is easy, just add the <a> tag surrounding it. But this doesn’t work with divs and sometimes we need a whole div to be...
Accelero twin turbo
Because my Ati Radeon 4890 fan fried I had to buy another cooler. After a little research I discovered Artic Accelero Twin Turbo. Today I decided to finally try it....
PHP Optimization Tips
As most languages PHP allows many ways to solve a problem. Some are faster then others. Here are a few ways to improve your PHP code.
Search and Replace in MySQL
I found something very handy today, search and replace on Mysql databases. You can do it on phpmyadmin or make a php script with this. After moving a wordpress site...
Test your website on multiple browsers
One of the most painful tasks of a web developer/designer is to ensure that his website is compatible with the majority of the popular browsers. Nowadays this includes Firefox 2.0...
How to style a blockquote with CSS
Blockquotes are an easy way to make your website stand out, by indicating that you are quoting someone you give a more professional approach to you website. You can do...
Building an 2D Game Engine in XNA – Part 1
I decided to starting writing a series of tutorials for building an 2d XNA game engine. Keep in mind that while the main focus is 2d nothing prevents us from...
How To Speed Up Firefox 3
I decided to try Google Chrome today and was pleasantly surprised with it’s speed on loading pages. And I started seeing how slow my Firefox was. At first I thought...
XNA Camera 2d with zoom and rotation
07/01/2011 – By popular request updated to XNA 4.0, xna 3.1 code is still there too One of the things I keep finding is people asking how to do a...
Cloning Objects in C#
After trying to manually clone some classes, but making a sort of copy constructor I was always ending up with lot’s of code and worse, if I add another variable...