Mario

This has been tested on Windows XP and Vista. But hopefully it should run without a problem on older versions as well. This just includes the first level environment that i created using Mappy. Also, this doesn’t include any interactions with the environment. I’ve also included the source code. So, you can take a look at it too and also use it for your own works. Licensed Open source :P.

3D Design

This may look very very noobish. But after all this is my first go at 3D. I followed this online tutorial to achieve this. Very eager to hear your comments on this one.

This can be achieved by a very simple method. If requires you to edit your .htaccess file in your domain root folder. Simply add this line to your .htaccess :

RedirectPermanent /latest.zip FULL-LINK-TO-THE-DOWNLOAD-FILE

or

RewriteRule latest.zip FULL-PATH-TO-THE-DOWNLOAD-FILE [R=301,L]

You have to update this file with the new link once you release a new version. In my case, it is currently:

RedirectPermanent /latest.zip http://rotatee.googlecode.com/files/rotatee-1.2.zip

This is the way I do it currently. If you know a simpler method, do let me know. And the advantage of using this technique is that you can simply refer as "download the latest version here" and point to this latest.zip link when you write blog posts or anything like that. Also, if you have "Download" links through out your site on many places, you need not update each of them individually. You can simple point them to this link.

Of course, this technique must have some other uses too. But, I can’t think of any, at the moment. If you know, do share with us.

After a long time, I’ve finally put up my home page at GotChance.com. The basic color scheme I took from my previous website NitrogenDesigns.com which I am closing down. In this post, I’ll list down the scripts and softwares that I used in the process of making of GotChance.com

Desktop Apps :

• PSPad Text Editor – all the coding work
• Adobe Photoshop – all the design work
• Mozilla Firefox – just testing (primary)
• Google Chrome – testing, but secondary
• Internet Explorer – testing, also secondary
• EasyPHP – to run the php scripts on my local pc
• TweakPNG – to fix the IE-PNG bug
• foobar2000 – just to ease my ears while I worked :P

Others :

• Prototype framework
• Lightbox gone wild
• SimplePie RSS Parser
• PHP, XHTML, CSS

If you wanna know how I did something, feel free to ask in comments. I’d be glad to make a write up.

I’m a strong believer of the words “Code is Poetry”. I enjoy coding. Hope i get some good tasks soon…

It purely depends on the space you have. You need to have atleast 290px width to accommodate 2 rows of 125×125 banners. Because, GotBanners automatically adds 5px margin to each banner. If you have lesser space, alter this line in gotbanners.php :

echo "<style>.gotbanners { text-align: center; } .gotbanners img { margin: 5px; } </style>";

Change the 5px to something lesser. If you just have 250px, you’ll have to change it to 0px.

Hope its clear for everyone. If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me.

I have a PHP file with the following code :

<?php
$hits = file_get_contents("SOME-NAME.txt");
$hits = $hits + 1;
$handle = fopen("SOME-NAME.txt", "w");
fwrite($handle, $hits);
fclose($handle);
echo '<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0; URL=LINK-TO-ORIGINAL-ZIP-FILE" />';
?>

The SOME-NAME.txt is the text file to which the number of downloads is written. It needs to be CHMODed to 777. And initially, it should contain “0″ as the file content. The LINK-TO-ORIGINAL-ZIP-FILE is the link to the file that needs to be downloaded. It can be any type, not necessarily be a Zip file.

I currently use this method for all my downloads on this blog. For eg, Got Banners can be downloaded from Here. The tracking is done on this TEXT File. Now, i hope that helped some of you.