TELLES0808, just downloaded and installed the .air version of PyxelEdit and it looks interesting, thanks for sharing.

For those entrepreneurs in London, has anybody looked at the Google Campus which I heard about on Google Entrepreneur.

It looks like a great place to get some great help for startups with many services for free as detailed on their faq.

Hopefully, they will open other sites in the near future as it would be great to have a group of motivated and knowledgeable designers and other developers and entrepreneurs to meet with to not only get help with the how to's of creating great graphics for our Construct 2 games, but to help with the marketing and other aspects too.

In the interim there is a startup course being offered for free through Udacity as discussed in the forum here, but it would be great to be able to meet up one-on-one too.

Tom, that is interesting to note and thanks for letting us know.

Sorry for the outage everyone. It was our DNS provider, ZoneEdit. Not impressed with their service!

Cloudflare is a great service, but it's a CDN and would not have helped fix the issue we just had.

Everything seems up and running and OK now, we'll be taking steps to move to a new DNS service as soon as possible.

I did take a look through CloudFlare's blog and they touch on them being in the top tier with an excerpt quoted below from this post and with the service being Free for the overwelming majority of its users it is just icing on the cake, so to speak.

"A report from SolveDNS was just released that shows CloudFlare as the second fastest authoritative DNS provider, well ahead of companies EasyDNS, UltraDNS, and Verisign."

From the chart in this report it looks like zoneedit came in ninth.

In the end, it looks like the two services mesh with one another, but CloudFlare seems like it is "... one of the largest, fastest, easiest, and most resilient authoritative DNS networks in the world." at least according to their blog post and the SolveDNS August 1, 2012 report.

Some of the other blog articles I looked at in no particular order which were helpful are below for your reference with many more available in their blog and throughout their site too.

Never Deal With DNS Propagation Again

CloudFlare's New UI: Managing DNS records

How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One

Again, it is great to have the site up and running again and I do not mind saying that one of the first things I looked at when it was down was doing a quick whois lookup and was gratified to see that the domain name was paid up until 14-Jun-2017.

All kidding aside, it is good to be able to access the site and obviously I have no interest in promoting CloudFlare beyond saying for the sites I have used their services I have had no problems DNS and otherwise.

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.