I finally managed to get my first iOS game on to the App Store two days ago and it has took off much better than I had originally anticipated. Within the first 48 hours it has had a total of 64 purchases and some quite good feedback. The game is compatible with all of the iOS product family so if you have an iPod Touch, an iPhone or an iPad go check it out at: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/kickup/id397618387?mt=8

Version 1.1 is currently in the hands of the Apple review team at the moment, which makes a small change to how the game ends. As it stands at the moment you have to restart the application to begin a new game, once version 1.1 is approved and made available you will be able to start a new game from within the application itself to avoid restarting.

I’d also like to point out to iPad users that this game is not just an iPhone game that will scale to the resolution of your iPad, it comes with a complete set of high definition graphics especially for the iPad so it will look just as good (if not better) than the low resolution versions.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on here, I have been incredibly busy as of late but today at work I came across something I thought I would share as it may save some people quite a lot of trouble. I was helping a colleague produce a HTML driven e-mail which requires some absolute positioning, tested it in IE – no problems, so naturally I assumed it would be no issue in Outlook as Outlook uses IE’s engine to render HTML – wrong.

In Outlook 2007 Microsoft have found it a good idea to use Microsoft Word to render the HTML as opposed to a web browser, who’s purpose is to render HTML. As a result of this a lot of CSS support has been cut (including positioning).  So before you start doing any coding for HTML based e-mails that will be read via Outlook 2007 I would strongly recommend taking a look at the Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007 article on MSDN as it contains a full reference as to what is now supported.

I also came across a very handy eBook by John Doub which contains some tips and tricks to work around the newly introduced limitations, Click Here to Download HTML e-Mail Rendering in Outlook 2007 by John Doub.

They say sometimes you have to take a step backwards to move forward, but this is one giant leap backwards as far as I’m concerned; hopefully Microsoft will bring back the HTML support that Outlook was once well known for.

After many months of analysis, research, design, development and testing I have decided to open phpAnalyzer to the public. Up until this point I have been very secretive about the system as I produced it in partial fulfilment of my BSc and didn’t want anyone with more resources and time to be able to spring up a similar system overnight that voids the usefulness of my own; now however I can launch it and I hope that it will be of use to people and meet the goals it was originally designed to conquer.

Check out phpAnalyzer at: http://www.phpanalyzer.co.uk/

What is phpAnalyzer?

phpAnalyzer allows users to upload a script to the system, at which point it will scan the script for bad PHP development practise; once the file has been fully scanned a report will be displayed to the user which indicates what they need to revise and display possible solutions to the problems, which in most cases will contain links to the appropriate pages in the online PHP manual which will aid the user in implementing the updated and correct methods and or global objects.

Who is phpAnalyzer aimed at?

It is primarily aimed towards students / people learning PHP as with an ever growing number of students and freelance developers turning to online resources it is important that a tool be available that will allow the developer-to-be to ensure what they are reading about is indeed the way they should be tackling a given problem.