Archive for May, 2010

A little bit about Webble and JavaScript games

Posted May 19, 2010 * Comments(2)

Webble is a pure HTML/CSS/JavaScript implementation of some of the core features Wezzle game engine. By “pure” I mean that there are no external plugins like Flash used. Furthermore, Webble does not make use of the HTML5 canvas element: all the animation is done purely by moving around HTML elements using JavaScript.

Writing a simple game engine using the DOM and JavaScript poses some interesting problems that are atypical to regular website development. In this article I will discuss a few of the problems that I encountered while writing Webble and how I solved them.

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How to query posts by template in WordPress

Posted May 13, 2010 * Comments(1)

Ever wanted to filter a query_posts call by template? If you’re reading this post, you probably have or need to right now. You probably went to the query_posts documentation and scanned for something like “template=foo” and were deeply disappointed. Then maybe, in an act of desperation, you started to trudge around the plugin library. Stop! Stop right there! You don’t need a plugin to do this. Everything you need is already in WordPress.

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