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The Nomad blog is where we share news of our projects, thoughts on web development and a weekly round up of things on the Internet that have caught our eye - Tales from the Internet
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Latest posts
:nth-of-type(n)
As our web builds have moved more toward HTML5 and CSS3, I have noticed some selectors cropping up more and more in my work. One of the ones I find myself using most often is :nth-of-type.
Ludum Dare
It's supposed to be a new TFI this week (and last week (and the week before)) but I've been a little too busy of late to put it together. My excuse this week is that I'm doing Ludum Dare this weekend and have been mainly focusing on prep work for that - by that I mean making sure I've got the tools for the job, the fuel for the job and enough rations that I don't have to leave the house until monday. Everything is ready and I'm all set to get started. I've set up a new Tumblr account so you can follow my progress.
MonoTouch and OpenGL: Part 2 Rendering Images
Last time I talked about MonoTouch and getting started with OpenGL development on the iPhone. We got as far as preparing OpenGL for 2D development by setting up our view port size and co-ordinate space.
Don't believe everything you read...
I've seen this image crop up on social media a few times over the last couple of weeks. It's great table, showing some data very clearly, and is easily understood. One problem though is that it is an absolute pack of lies.
Adobe Shadow
For this week’s blog post I thought I would talk a little about a new tool that Lee recently made me aware of: Shadow from Adobe.
Tales From the Internet: Sublime Text 2
At Nomad over the past couple of weeks we've been discussing code editors. We've all used various editors and IDE's and they all seem to have warts – some more so than others. Lee mentioned Sublime Text 2 which we've all since been trying.
MonoTouch and OpenGL
Recently I've been working a lot with MonoTouch from Xamarin and OpenGL ES, or rather the OpenTK bindings that come with MonoTouch.
The other social network...
Don't worry, this is not a rant about new twitter - which I actually quite like.
Snippets: Accented Characters
This is a quick and dirty PHP hack which will convert accented characters to their non-accented version (e.g. á to a). It relies on the HTML entity starting with the unaccented character. It's highly volatile and likely to fail as it will convert & and other characters that you may not want converted.
