In my continued efforts to improve the information I provide about the projects I publish, I have moved the information about the ShroudBNC Netgamers script to my wiki.

I’m planning on moving more content to the wiki over the next few weeks, mainly because I find it easier to manage the content than I do when it’s published with WordPress.

I’m pleased to announce, after a bit of a delay, the next version of the Advanced Custom Field Widget has just hit the WordPress Subversion servers.

Well, seems today is my lucky day for finding useful bits of information out about WordPress. Here’s the deal… you backup your site, move servers, restore everything and it all appears to work, BUT, when you go back and try and add an old image that you uploaded before you moved, it won’t display the image in the media library… instead you’re getting an error spouting something about security and open_basedir… if this is your problem… read on as I have a solution. (more…)

Jason “Will” McMillen, the former site manager of Pascal Game Development has launched a new downloadable magazine for those of us who are into developing games with Pascal.

You can get the first edition of Pascal Gamer at the new website at http://www.pascalgamer.com.

Get your free copy of Pascal Gamer at http://www.pascalgamer.com

Just a little note which may save someone some time. If you’re using MantisBT and are having problems with getting the graphs and visual captcha working (even though you have GD installed), read on. (more…)

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the fourth Pascal Game Development Competition, The PGD Annual 2009, has kicked off this weekend.

If you’re into Pascal, and developing games, why not give it a whirl. Head over to the competition website at PGDAnnnual.com for more information, and to sign up and enter.

For anyone that is using the Advanced Custom Field Widget, I can confirm that it is compatible with version 2.8 of WordPress.

I have a few plans for things I want to include in version 0.6 but I’m a bit tied up with work and one or two other things at the moment. As soon as my current urgent commitments are finished, I plan on knuckling down and getting 0.6 finished off and released.

Who would have thought LittleBigPlanet would have such an impact on my blog. In writing my tutorial section about logic and game control mechanics in LBP, I needed to provide some sidebar content on pages (as opposed to posts) that was common to a group of pages. As a consequence, ACFW has had a couple of tweaks this evening.

Visit the ACFW page for more information (links to the page and to download the latest version are in the sidebar).

I’ve just published two of my side projects. Check out the new ‘Projects’ section or read on for some details.
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Yes, thats right… my first ever slice of cake… not the yummy kind… the framework kind, and I have to say I’m impressed. I have this madly simple idea for a neat website, but I don’t want to commit weeks of work to it only to watch it crash and burn (potentially). So I’ve been looking around for frameworks for developing web apps… looked at Ruby on Rails… nice, but needed what seemed like an inordinate amount of effort to set up… then I came across CakePHP. What a revelation. (more…)