How to Speed up Your WordPress Website with WP Super Cache and CloudFront

August 13, 2011

In the post How to Use Dropbox as a Content Delivery Network for WordPress I described how to use Dropbox as a poor man’s content delivery network. Somebody over at cdnpoint said that this might violate the terms of service of Dropbox, especially when you have a website with high traffic. Though I think it [...]

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How to Customize the Post Byline with the Thesis Theme for WordPress

August 10, 2011

While I was reading an article on Social Triggers I found an elegant way to link to my Twitter account on CuteMachine in the post byline. Have a look at this post and you will see the link to my Twitter account in the byline just below the headline. As you might already have noticed, [...]

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Use Box2d for Collision Detection with Corona SDK – Tutorial Part 3

July 30, 2011

Welcome back to the Corona SDK tutorial series. You might want to consider reading part one and part two first. In this third part I will show you how you can utilize the physics simulation lib Box2d for collision detection. Box2d is a physics simulation package with many interesting features. We will use only one [...]

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Name Squatting on iTunesConnect with Style

July 26, 2011

When you are close to finishing your iOS project, it is a good idea to reserve the name for your app on the App Store. You do this by creating a new entry for your app in iTunesConnect. Don’t squat the app name too early though, because Apple expects you to upload your binary at [...]

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Mockups for my first cross-platform App for iOS and Android

July 25, 2011

I have been working for two weeks on my first cross-platform app. I plan to release it in August for the iPhone, iPad and Android. Here are two mockups I made. The main menu of the app is styled after the famous Where To app. Here is a short list of the resources I used [...]

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How to Use Dropbox as a Content Delivery Network for WordPress

July 23, 2011

I use MultiMarkdown and nvALT to write the articles for my WordPress blog CuteMachine. You can read about the workflow in my previous post Publishing Workflow with nvALT and MultiMarkdown. When using my writing workflow I faced a problem, which really bugged me: the need to change the links in the generated HTML. The Problem [...]

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How to Create a Google+ Vanity URL

July 21, 2011

The link to your posts on Google+ looks as if you have linked to one of your Swiss bank accounts. It is hard to remember the link because of the long ID in it. This also makes it hard to share with your friends. For example, the link to my stream of posts on Google+ [...]

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Basic Animations and Player Control with Corona SDK – Tutorial Part 2

July 20, 2011

This is the second post on the Corona SDK tutorial series. You will learn how to draw objects on screen and how to move these around by processing touch events. Furthermore, you will learn how to add listeners for certain events. Make sure to read the first part, if you you haven’t done so already. [...]

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Publishing Workflow with nvALT and MultiMarkdown

July 17, 2011

Last week a friend of mine told me about his experience of using Microsoft Word to write a paper. I won’t share it here with you because of the abusive language he used. Suffice it to say that it wasn’t a good one. I recommended my workflow to my dear friend, as I’m very happy [...]

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How to Set Up Corona to Build Your First iOS or Android App

July 13, 2011

As promised, here is the first tutorial on developing with Corona SDK. Corona by Ansca Mobile is a cross platform development kit. It is easy to target different devices, as long as these are iOS or Android based. In this tutorial you will learn how to set up the basic structure for a Corona app. [...]

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