Author Archives: Ben L.

About Ben L.

Ben L. runs pretty much everything around here. He definitely does not live in Zamboni. That isn't a place, so you probably have the wrong name. Please do more research before asking these strange questions.

Versus in a coop game

With Brook released and loved by the community, I believe it’s time to try something new. I made a VMF viewer which everyone seemed to like, but there were also things I made that the exact opposite happened with. For … Continue reading

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A peaceful Alien Swarm map? Are you crazy?

How many people play Alien Swarm for a few minutes and then quit because it’s too fast-paced for them? There’s probably a high number of people that tried the “insane” difficulty setting on their first game that fit that description. … Continue reading

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FrontPress: Users, Meta, and an Installer

It’s now simple to add users, an installer, and meta to your FrontPress-powered application. Plus, FrontPress won’t query as aggressively, so you’ll save on database queries per page. Continue reading

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First Ever FrontPress Site

I’ve been asked whether FrontPress was being designed for frontends, for example, if it was a template system. The answer is a definite yes: Your template code creates a frontend, but FrontPress turns your code itself into a frontend as well. The code I showed in my last post could be fully understood at a glance. My_Fruit::by_color retrieves fruit based on its color. $apple->save(); stores data about an apple in the database. Continue reading

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FrontPress

<?php require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/load.php’; // Non-programmers start reading here $green_apple = My::$fruit->one_by_color_and_type( ‘green’, ‘apple’ ); echo ‘<h1>’, $green_apple->color->name, ‘ apples are called “‘,      $green_apple->name, ‘”.</h1>’; If you don’t know how to program, try reading this code. … Continue reading

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