jwjb's Forum Posts

  • NugMan, I can commiserate with you on earning badges based on 'Consecutive Days Visited' to get the Devotee badge when I 'Visit the Scirra website for 10 consecutive days' or similar badges until I realized the goal is to build great apps using the website as a resource and not to just make sure I am arbitrarily visiting the website everyday. Regardless, in the 70 days I have been a member I just missed earning the Dedicated badge when you 'Visit the Scirra website for 30 consecutive days' by a day or so two times as I was offline on other projects and could not login to the site so again I can emphasize with you.

  • I second it with CloudFlare. I have been using them for over a year now I believe and they are always up, they also protect against hacking, and speed-up your website in addition to a number of other features. Regardless, it is great to see the site up and running again.

  • There is a free seven week long (starting on September 24, 2012) Learn to Program: The Fundamentals course being offered from University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science through Coursera.

    From their FAQ "Students who successfully complete the class will receive a certificate signed by the instructor."

    Although I have just started the LTP course today, I have found it quite helpful and hope you will too.

    Along these same lines, there are some other interesting courses being offered online as discussed under Free Gamification Course in this forum.

  • IMHO I think it is great that anybody and everybody can "post" a tutorial regardless of their number of reputation points since the C2 Community is more than capable to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak in these tutorials to say nothing of making the community more engaging and informative overall when everyone of us can "impart" their knowledge through authoring a tutorial be it awesome or not so awesome as there is always something to be learned by the one making the tutorial to the one taking the tutorial as it is all relative in the end to the knowledge and experience of the individual and where they are on the learning curve be it novice or pro and all levels of mastery in between.

  • teahousemoon, thanks for calling this out as it has yet to gel with me.

  • Kyatric, very cool and am going through it now, thanks as always.

    droptank21, thanks but I am getting a 404 error on your links.

  • Back in the day when I was using Flash and programming in AS3 I ran across a really nifty "automated" flowcharting tool, UML4AS, which at the time was in Beta and was free which is not the case now.

  • —, it is always great to get these updates and I can already see a huge improvement in the UI of the software since purchasing it about six weeks ago, thanks.

  • alexandresc, KSLR, stevo301103, vandinz, and KFC, thanks for sharing these links, they are sure to help everyone get the perfect sound for their games.

  • EyeHawk, like you I just enrolled in How to Build a Startup (EP245) The Lean LaunchPad which looks like a great course.

  • EyeHawk, well I have not seen specifically a course on 2D Game Art, but I have many Evernote links to blog posts and such.

    I do like deviantArt to look around and get some ideas.

    Another great series of articles are the tuts+ tutorials and series with so much great insight with some listed below for your reference.

    Digital Art for Beginners | Psdtuts+

    Adobe Photoshop Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced | Psdtuts+

    Game Development Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced | Gamedevtuts+

    Photoshop Tutorials for Beginners | Psdtuts+

    A great thing about the above links is that they refer you to many more links that can help you out.

    Like you the only problem is finding time to go through it all and still have time to develop your apps and do all the other things that need to get done everyday.

    I hope the above helps and let us know of anything you find especially pertinent, beneficial, and helpful.

  • EyeHawk, glad you are enjoying the course. I am finding it just fine so far and am looking forward to the application part of the course coming up in the second half or last three weeks. So what I have been doing is playing the videos at 2.00X speed and following the captions to make it pass more quickly.

    Oh by the way, as I mentioned in a previous post above, edX is offering a free course, among others, CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science - HarvardX which looks like a really interesting course from viewing the embedded video and reading about it online with Classes starting October 15, 2012 and ending on April 15, 2013.

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  • BlueSkies, you could try Udacity and edX too.

    I have taken courses from Udacity and the "forerunner" to edX, MITx and they are all great.

    All in all though, I would rank Udacity above them all in terms of imparting real-world, real-life, nails and tacks knowledge that you can quickly apply in your everyday working and business and development life, whereas the other classes are more traditional and theoretical plus the lectures are really short and sweet and to the point.

    Let us know how you make out with the classes and what your impressions were too.

  • —, I like Weebly for a basic site with a blog, small store, etc. For a larger e-commerce implemention or more advanced features I like Joomla using

    CloudAccess which is a great way to go as they have great support and make Joomla really easy to work with along with all the great plug-ins and extensions available in the Joomla platform and the Joomla Community is really vibrant and helpful to newbies and pros alike.

  • I wanted to follow-up my forum post with a workflow of what I have found helpful for implementing a Subversion (SVN) Version Control System (VCS) which I hope to follow-up with a tutorial at a later date once I have made the VCS process as robust and effortlessly as possible.

    I have used CVS, SVN, Git and other version control services, but version control using SVN through the Freepository hosting service is far superior than any I have used heretofore and with the basic plan available free of charge (Subversion, 1 user/committer, 1 private repository, unlimited storage) it is a no-brainer.

    So, I definitely am touting Freepository as the quintessential SVN hosting platform after trying it out and getting awesome support from the founder, John Minnihan, over this past holiday weekend.

    It is also a plus that Freepository works great with TortoiseSVN a SVN client for Windows which can be used to access your SVN repository on Freepository and BitKinex a WebDAV client for Windows which can be used in downloading your entire SVN repository hosted on Freepository to your local drive for periodic backups.

    Per Is Subversion the Right Tool?, "[...] If you need to archive old versions of files and directories, possibly resurrect them, or examine logs of how they've changed over time, then Subversion is exactly the right tool for you. If you need to collaborate with people on documents (usually over a network) and keep track of who made which changes, then Subversion is also appropriate. This is why Subversion is so often used in software development environments�working on a development team is an inherently social activity, and Subversion makes it easy to collaborate with other programmers. [...]"

    Lots of luck in getting everything up and running. Any trials and tribulations you may have will be well worth the effort as I am finding out as work through the process of getting my SVN VCS up and running using these tools.