Monthly Archives: October 2011

Posting to Twitter with PHP and OAuth class

Posted on October 30th, 2011 by Ryan

Needed a bit of an update on a font site I threw up a few years ago. Specifically I wanted to put a script together to tweet a random font each day. Should have been easy since I already had … Continue reading →

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Printing a single frame from a Flash project

Posted on October 29th, 2011 by Ryan

Bit of a duh moment after finally finding a solution to this. What I needed was a way to print a single frame out of a Flash project. Pretty easy to print the first frame, or all frames, but I … Continue reading →

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Set WordPress image to “none”

Posted on October 29th, 2011 by Ryan

Been using WordPress for a while now. Heck, this blog has been running WP since 2007. So it’s really sad that it took until today for me to figure this out. Putting an image inline to a post defaults to … Continue reading →

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How to create a wine glass in Blender

Posted on October 29th, 2011 by Ryan

Looking to create a simple wine glass in Blender 2.5/2.6? Yes, there’s quite a few steps. But it’s remarkably easy to do. First step is to create the default cube. Right click to select it and press either Delete or … Continue reading →

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How to create a very simple space game in Flash

Posted on October 29th, 2011 by Ryan

Admit it, you’ve played an online game while at work. And odds are very good it was written in Flash / ActionScript. We’re going to cook up a very simple Flash project that might serve as the start of a … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweets for 2011-10-29

Posted on October 29th, 2011 by Ryan

RT @benchun: computer science education act introduced in the house and senate! http://t.co/xxqbnppF # Powered by Twitter Tools

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Weekly Tweets for 2011-10-22

Posted on October 22nd, 2011 by Ryan

Why game developers don't listen to your ideas http://t.co/WFf9awJP # Powered by Twitter Tools

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Teaching recursion with Scratch BYOB – take 2

Posted on October 8th, 2011 by Ryan

This is a follow up from a post I did about a year and a half ago on using Scratch BYOB to teach recursion. The original way of defining parameters in BYOB were a bit clunky, but it’s gotten much … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweets for 2011-10-08

Posted on October 8th, 2011 by Ryan

Educational theft? Jail time for trying to get a better situation for your kids seems very wrong http://t.co/6RDPZDTC # RT @blender3d: 4th Open Movie kick-off: Mango!: Preparations now fully started; the next Open Movie project will be … http://t.co/goDo7rhw # … Continue reading →

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Quitting Facebook?

Posted on October 1st, 2011 by Ryan

With apologies to my online friends who post their latest random thoughts on LOL Cats, religious messages, or rantings on why or why not A&M going to the SEC was a good decision; I just deactivated my Facebook account. Seems … Continue reading →

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