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Rise From Your Grave - Chainploder

I was poking around my giant hard drive a couple days ago, looking at a bunch of old programming projects I'd done. Some of these had some pretty cool concepts behind them but, for whatever reason, I never completed them. So, in a series of blog posts shamelessly ripping a line of dialog from Altered Beast, I will present to you some of the cooler of these projects - complete with all their original source code. Today's highlight is Chainploder.

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Ahora, con más español

Tossing your works out onto the internets for everybody to see comes with a few interesting points. Without knowing it, you can be featured in a Brazilian magazine, offered employment at a large game company and now have one's work translated and dubbed into another language:

Thank you, Ju4NJo09, for making my labor day weekend a little more awesome!

Be sure to check out the full animation in English on Newgrounds or in the gallery.

Building a Web-based Media Player - Part 1

For the past month I've been tinkering with Flex and my little Linux server. One of the projects that grew out of this was a web media player with which I could listen to all my tunes wherever there happened to be some scraps of internet. This has been one of the coolest projects I've worked on in some time. It successfully blends nearly all of my programming skills: PHP/MySQL, Javascript, XML, Flex/Actionscript 3.0, and some C++. I'm going to write a series of tutorials walking through what I've done in hopes of bringing this coolness to the masses. I'm going to be fairly verbose covering subjects that any seasoned programmer can pretty much skip over. In the first installment I'm going to cover creating the database and getting song information from the MP3s.

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