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Going out of town and re-energizing for the week
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in TravelLast weekend, C and I went with our friends to Tagaytay and did nothing but eat, drink some good wine and beer and alcohol, play The Resistance (which messed with our friendship so bad), and meet some work deadlines. The weather was so cold (Manila standard of measurement) and the place was so very beautiful.
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Risk of Rain: simple and creative
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in PlayThe premise is pretty simple: collect [randomly picked] items as much as you can, to give you power-ups and other weapons to kill enemies and bosses so that you can advance to higher levels and finish the game. But finishing the game isn’t that easy. The longer you stay on a stage, the stronger the
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Spark Camera on iOS (and circles on your interface)
Spark Camera is free on the iOS App Store for a while, so C suggested that I download the app since it was really pretty for a video recorder+editor. I’m not used to taking videos, more less editing them, so I don’t think I did pretty well compared to C’s tests. It’s interesting because it seems
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Corregidor Island Daytrip with C
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in TravelC and I were looking for a place to visit that isn’t too far from Manila (basically, something we can do in a day). He ended up treating me to Corregidor Island for my birthday last December. There’s only one tourist company in charge of visits to the island: Sun Cruises Philippines. The PhP 2,300
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Best of 2013: My Favorite Games
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in PlayI took a very long break from blogging, and I want to keep making an effort into turning this into a habit (again), and I start with very late posts I should have written around New Year. At least I’m not too late for Chinese New Year? Hahaha. I haven’t really grown up as a
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WordPress Development with Roots (Bootstrap, SASS/LESS) and Grunt
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in WorkRequirements XCode Git (easy via Homebrew) node.js – http://nodejs.org/download/ or https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/installation SASS – http://sass-lang.com/install LESS – http://lesscss.org/ GruntJS – http://gruntjs.com/getting-started Grunt Plugins SASS – https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-sass CSSmin – https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-cssmin Watch – https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-watch Uglify (for compiling JS files) – https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-uglify Example: npm install grunt –save-dev npm install grunt-contrib-uglify –save-dev Use with SublimeText For a faster
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Give your Android a sickeningly cute make-over
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in TinkerI used to have a couple of those cute Korean planner notebooks that seemed like a collage and had cutesy characters all over. They were usually in soft pastels. In high school (or was it grade school?), my humble splurge was on cute stationaries that they sold in the book shop inside our school. To
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UI design: donation form design done right
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in DesignWhile I was looking for an organization to donate to, so I could help in some way families who have been devastated by the typhoon. There was one site that stood out from those that I’ve looked at (which aren’t many, to be honest): Unicef (PH)’s donate page. Most sites that would ask for money
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the little things I learned today about Android/Cordova/PhoneGap
For work, I had to help test a cordova iOS app and port it for Android. For some reason, the usual deviceready code wasn’t working: if (navigator.userAgent.match(/(iPhone|iPod|iPad|Android|BlackBerry)/)) { // is on PhoneGap $(function() { document.addEventListener(“deviceready”, deviceIsReady, false); }); } else { // not on PhoneGap } Instead, this worked: if ( window.device ) { document.addEventListener(“deviceready”,