Jensen Harris just posted a walkthrough of how Microsoft prototype using PowerPoint. It’s almost identical to the way I’ve been doing it, although I prefer to build the entire UI from shapes and images before creating a detailed picture and overlaying transparent “hot spots”. This makes it much easier to move elements around, which […]
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16 Feb, 2006
Prototyping the UI with PowerPoint
I’ll be honest; PowerPoint is one of those applications that I treat rather harshly. I’ve been put off by too many awful presentations with whooshing bullet points, dreadful clip art and perhaps even a few sound effects for good measure. As far as I’m concerned, PowerPoint is a tool for creating nightmares. Horrible, bullet […]
09 Feb, 2006
My First Steps with Linux
I’ve happily used Windows XP for the past four years, but I’d heard good things about Linux so I decided to give it a try last year. I now use Linux for a lot of my non-programming tasks, and although I feel parts could be improved, it’s a very pleasant environment to use.
Getting Started
The first […]
30 Jan, 2006
Protean goes free
Protean IDE, an IDE for Blitz Basic has gone free today, along with a source code release. It’s a shame that development fizzled out towards the end, but it was a heavy duty IDE that towered over the original Blitz editor. It’s use of the .NET framework seemed to put a lot of people […]
03 Nov, 2005
Turn hotlinks into advertising - part II
In Monday’s entry, I explained some simple techniques to turn a drain on resources into a free* method of advertising.
In today’s entry, I’ll be going into more depth about how to use a little PHP to dynamically generate your adverts. Why would you want to do this? For starters, you can modify the image […]
31 Oct, 2005
Turn hotlinks into advertising
If you own a website, then it’s likely you’ve had images “hotlinked” or “leeched”. Not only is this annoying and rude, but it also costs bandwidth. The usual response is to replace the linked image with something suitably amusing or offensive, but in today’s post I’m going to look at the alternatives.
A recent post […]
13 Oct, 2005
Joe Indie on starting small
A good post over at Joe Indie about why indies should start with a small project before moving on to bigger things. He states the main benefits of this approach as:
Experience with the entire software development process.
Experience shipping software to end users.
Experience setting up shop on the Web.
Experience as a business entity with a […]