I think you all know Google Analytics. A Google Analytics API has long been one of the most widely anticipated (and wanted from developers) features. On April 21st, 2009 the official blog announced that the Google Analytics Data Export API beta is now publicly available to all Analytics users. The API will allow developers to … Playing with Google Analytics API
This is an ooooooold (let’s call it) game I explained for a web programming class in 2003 or 2004. It was made to explain some basics about Php, sessions, MySql and styles. All in one. That’s how students learn… all in one and with a real world example. It’s just a “guess if next number … MagOrMin – an old php based game
Before you even think this script will solve a Sokoban level, I must warn you: this script won’t solve a sokoban level, it won’t even recognize whether a level is solved or not. This script, part of an old project I am going to bring to life again, will just make Sokoban wander around the … Trying to solve a Sokoban level with brute force
This is an old project for a class held in 2005. At that time, Sodoku game was very popular in Italy, and I saw quite a lot of Flash games based upon it. If you don’t know what is a Sudoku, Wikipedia says is a logic-based number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 … Sudoku creator/solver with PHP
You may wonder why I am publishing another maze script. The reason is simple: in Perfect maze generation with AS3 post and previous ones I just showed you how to make a perfect maze, but it’s not the kind of maze you can use in tile based or roguelike games. Why not? Because walls aren’t … Perfect maze generation – tile based version
Some time ago I blogged about Showing MochiAds leaderboards in any Flash movie or web page with a script made by myself that displayed MochiAds leaderboards on your site. Yesterday MochiAds guys released a widget that accepts a game slug and partner ID and will display all the available leaderboards for the given game. The … Create a WordPress MochiAds Leaderboards Widget
Let’s imagine you made an awesome game and monetize it with MochiAds, and want to show your readers/the world how much your game rocks, now you have an interesting option. Thanks to Rhu from Blargh now you can have a banner showing your game stats. I am talking about something like this You can find … Put a banner with your MochiAds stats in your blog
When your blog starts becoming popular, people will visit, read and talk about it and your blog will have comments pingbacks, and trackbacks. While everybody knows what is a comment, I am going to explain pingbacks and trackbacks. From WordPress Codex Glossary: Pingback lets you notify the author of an article if you link to … Separate comments from trackbacks in your WordPress blog
In Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress – step 4, we saw how to post a game into a wp database, now we’ll see how to retrieve game information. It’s time to parse the json feed. Where can I find the feed? At this link http://www.mochiads.com/feeds/games/xxx/all/all?format=json you will find the json feed. Just … Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress – step 5
One of the best (or worst) things about programming is once you think you’ve almost done it, another problem pops up. In part 3 I told you the hardest part was done, but I guess I was wrong. This is an almost-working php script to include one game into WP in the same way as … Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress – step 4
Once you installed your WP blog, it’s just a matter of time before you hear this word: The Loop. Did you install a plugin? It probably has some advanced functions to be inserted in The Loop. Do you want to insert a banner or a Google ad after the first post (or inside it)? You … Understanding WordPress Loop
