The Independent Gaming Source
A week after Tommy Refenes (Super Meat Boy) declared the Apple App Store to be the Tiger Electronics handheld of this generation (part of the Indie Game Maker Rant session), Apple has removed his zit-popping game Zits & Giggles from the App Store. As an experiment, Tommy raised the price tier every time someone bought Zits & Giggles, with people eventually buying the game for $300.
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The JavaScript Object Model: A deep dive into prototypes and properties
Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra.
This talk will be in German with English slides.
Introduction
As web developers we work with JavaScript every day, even when our backend code uses anothe...
The Ruby Object Model
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Daring Fireball: New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler
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Learning from the iPhone's failure as a gaming platform: gem-session.com blog
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CSS: Matching against attributes and their values (or parts of them)
You probably know that you can use CSS selectors to match against elements and their attributes, such as:
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Derek Powazek - Thoughts on Designing for iPad
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ongoing by Tim Bray · The Web’s the Place
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Knowing .NET » Blog Archive » The Absurdity of Apple’s New iPhone Restrictions
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