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Win a copy of the Flash Facebook Cookbook, at my FlashMidlands session, this Saturday.

On Saturday 19th November I’ll be doing a session on the Flash Facebook Cookbook at the FlashMidlands meetup, and will have a copy or two of the book to give away. In the session I will be looking at working with the Facebook Graph API and Flash. Starting where the Flash Facebook Cookbook starts we’ll [...]

by on 15th November, 2011 in The Flash Facebook Cookbook

Corona SDK: Solving JSON decode error with UTF-8 files.

While working with JSON-encoded data files, I had some problems getting the darn things to work.  Apart from an unhelpful error message, the Corona simulator gave me no clues as to what was wrong. Turned out that the problem was actually to do with the UTF-8 encoding. And in the end, what fixed it was [...]

by on 14th November, 2011 in Corona SDK

Improving your website with Nibbler

If you haven’t encountered Nibbler before, Nibbler is a free-to-use website quality checker.  It’s developed and maintained by Silktide, and is a tool for checking up to 5 pages of a website against 20 different quality checks – from Social Media to W3C compliance, Alternative text to Semantic HTML.

by on 14th November, 2011 in HTML