Before starting on the development I wanted to ensure that I knew all of the details about the game, so I began to jot down some notes. The basic notes I wrote were as follows: The user’s car should be controlled by the arrow keys The user should have to…
I quickly decided that I would my flash game to be based around racing. This is a popular type of game to design in flash, so why did I choose it as my genre? Why not an action or puzzle based game? Racing games, are in my mind, a classic…
A few people recently have been asking how I achieved the spaces in my dock, see the video below for details. The commands follow so you can copy & paste them. Do this once for every space you want: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{“tile-type”=”spacer-tile”;}’ Followed by this to make…
Several people have been asking what settings I am using in order to create my Alfred App colour scheme, so following the screen shot are all of my settings. First off, it’s based on the default theme “Dark”, changing this at the start will save you from having to change…
Pushing the boundaries is not something everyone will do on the web. In fact most people won’t even think about incase the client doesn’t like it, or because what they would have to do isn’t a “proven method” yet. This is one thing though, that I think we should all…
I chose jQuery when developing the JavaScript for danielgroves.net because it the form of JavaScript that I am most familiar with. Their are thousands of plugins, tutorials and code snippets widely available on the web. What is & Why jQuery? jQuery is a JavaScript library with the slogan “Write Less,…