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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
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
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
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
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