tadpoles update

Date: 28th December 2008 at 4:44 pm | Filed under: actionscript, development, flash, gallery | Author: Sam Burdge


Well here it is! the long overdue update to my tadpoles project. I thought it was about time that my tadpoles had a natural predator, so I introduced these hungry bugs which I adapted from the woderfull open-source "walking things" which I found here: levitated.net/daily/levWalkingThings.html

When each bug's body or legs touch a tadpole the tadpole attempts to escape, but when the bug's head touches the tadpole it can eat him.

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In the next update I will try to give the bugs more 'intelligence' so that they can actively hunt the tadpoles. I will also write scripts that allow the tadpoles and bugs to grow as they eat more and get older, and to reproduce so that the supply of tadpoles doesn't run out.

I also want to introduce some inanimate objects, like rocks etc. that the creatures have to navigate around...

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wp plugin - force www. in url

Date: 12th October 2007 at 6:21 pm | Filed under: development, plugins, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

This nifty little WordPress plugin will force the url to include the 'www.' part of the url string. Useful if you want your address to be displayed in a particular way regardless of how the user types it in. To see how it works delete the www. from your address bar (i.e. http://samburdge.co.uk) and press return. This type of redirection is usualy done by altering the .htaccess file, which some Wordpress users may not have access to. Using a plugin to do this is an easy solution for WordPress users as the setup process is simple, and will be familiar to most of you.

Instructions:

  1. Download the plugin file here: URL to Full URL Plugin (rar) | URL to Full URL Plugin (zip)
  2. Upload the php file into your plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins/)
  3. Go to your plugins page in WordPress and activate the plugin

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5 Responses to “wp plugin - force www. in url”

  • Comment by Mr Papa
    Date: January 18th, 2008 at 12:37 am

    This is backwards… you should want to take the www out, not put it in… www is old and antiquated…

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 18th, 2008 at 1:01 am

    Hi Mr Papa,
    I also have a plugin for that. Different strokes for different folks…
    S

  • Comment by Walter
    Date: April 6th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

    This is useful for people that want a correctly formatted URL.  Antiquated because people are lazy.

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    Date: May 1st, 2009 at 11:16 pm

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  • Comment by dgodfather
    Date: September 1st, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    This doesn’t appear to work for Wordpress MU. Can this be worked in?

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