Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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Huge update for Robo Defense for Android

Over the last few days Lupis Labs have steadily released a huge amount of updates to their 'Robo Defense' Android game. It was already a top ten game for the Android platform, but it is great to see software maturing, and being constantly revised to bring additional features to their users.

There has been a massive graphics overhaul, the addition of a zoom mode and several other updates. They have also added a load more achievements, and a survival mode with scaling difficulty to really test you.

A full list of the updates is available on the Lupis Labs website.

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2011

Creating and using a custom short URL with bit.ly

Most of us are familiar with short URL's now. They are a pretty standard feature online now. What is becoming more popular is having a custom URL for your own links. Instead of posting short URL's that contain the name of the service provider, you can create a short link that has your own custom short format.

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Using the JQuery Tooltip plugin to enhance title attributes

The title tag attribute is a modern staple of any developers html code base. Most of us use them, more of us should use them more. I've learnt more recently that they have wider implications for Accessibility users, but I've also come to change my thinking of their use.

This article shows how you can use the JQuery tooltip plugin to enhance the title attribute, and how the title tag can be used to convey a more useful message to your browsers.

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2011

Daily Dilbert RIAforge project release 1.0

I'm a great fan of the Dilbert cartoon series, so I've put together a little application to go and get the Daily Dilbert cartoon strip from the Dilbert website.

It's a simply cfc call that will get today's Dilbert cartoon and save it to a path the user has defined and passed in as an argument.

Let me know if you use it, or think of any ways of to extend it.

It is also one of the first tests I was set as a trainee 10+ years ago, so was quite an interesting comparison to write it again.

You can download it from RIAforge here: http://dilbert.riaforge.org/

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