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Repeating or Tiled Background in Phaser

NG How to, Phaser

Creating tiled or repeating background is pretty straight forward in Phaser by using tileSprite. Let say we have an image or a texture such as  which we want to use to create a background by repeating it in entire game area. Check out the highlighted line in the example below which is all that is required to create a nice tiled background in Phaser. var TheGame = { }; TheGame.Params = { baseWidth: 200, baseHeight: 200 }; TheGame.Boot = function (game) { }; TheGame.Boot.prototype = { init: function () { this.scale.scaleMode = Phaser.ScaleManager.SHOW_ALL; this.game.scale.pageAlignHorizontally = true; this.game.scale.pageAlignVertically = true; }, preload: function () { this.load.image(“background”, “repeatxy.png”); this.load.image(“loading”, “loadingback.png”); }, create: function () { this.state.start(“Loading”); } }; TheGame.Loading = function (game) { }; TheGame.Loading.prototype = { init: function () { }, preload: function () { var loadingBar = this.add.sprite(this.world.centerX, this.world.centerY, “loading”); loadingBar.anchor.setTo(0.5); this.load.setPreloadSprite(loadingBar); }, create: function () { this.state.start(“TheGame”); } }; TheGame.MyGame =[…]

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How to Embed Google AdSense Code inside a WordPress Post without Any Plugin

NG Adsense, How to, WordPress

WordPress does not let you embed PHP code inside the posts but uses a feature to create Shortcode functions which are executed whenever they are encountered within a post. This is pretty handy feature since this gives you capability to add some PHP code in your WordPress files and then call it from your posts. The PHP code can be added to Theme’s functions.php file. We can use this to load ads from within the posts. Go to WordPress administration -> Appearance -> Editor -> By default style.css is opened for editing. Open functions.php by clicking on the file name on right hand side listing. Now copy the following code at the end of the file and change the return string to your Adsense code. Shortcode is defined by calling add_shortcode function and passing two parameters to it. The first one is a given name which will be used in the posts to call this[…]

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Mobile Apps

Responsive Bootstrap and JQuery Game Template for Mobile

NG Bootstrap, jQuery, Mobile

For mobile web app templates, Jquery Mobile has been a popular choice but it comes with its own set of issues when we have multiple pages in the game since it makes ajax calls to load the pages and if there are specific things which are required to be handled on each page then it becomes even more complex to handle those scenarios. The alternate is to have a simple Bootstrap and JQuery based template with multiple pages which is simple and works just like a website. The problem here is that the pages are loaded again and again whenever we navigate from one page to another. This is not an ideal scenario for mobile web apps since all external libraries are required to be initialized on all pages which is not required and unnecessary work for processor. For example, if you compiled your web app using PhoneGap and are using a plugin to play audio.[…]

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Cannot find type: verify that the assembly containing this type is loaded. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)

NG How to

Downloaded  HtmlAgilityPack.dll and loaded in Windows Powershell by running the following command Add-Type -Path ‘c:\Temp\PS\Net40\HtmlAgilityPack.dll’ Got the following error.. Add-Type : Could not load file or assembly ‘file:///C:\Temp\PS\Net40\HtmlAgilityPack.dll’ or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515) At C:\Temp\PS\script.ps1:12 char:1 + Add-Type -Path ‘c:\Temp\PS\Net40\HtmlAgilityPack.dll’ + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Add-Type], FileLoadException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.FileLoadException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddTypeCommand   HtmlAgilityPack.dll does not have any dependency for the .Net version I was on (use the command $psversiontable to get the .Net version used by Powershell) It turned out that the file was blocked since it was downloaded from the internet. All I needed to do was to go to DLL’s properties and unblock it.

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Top 6 Mistakes That Can Mess Professional Values of Your Business

Simy Digital Marketing, Online Marketing

Whenever you come up with a range of new products or services, you can’t ignore the potential of social media to reach more people and increase traffic. It can ruin your business in case you are unaware of the consequences of social activities. To get the most out of it first we need to take care of the following mistakes:- 1. Posting Similar Content This is a big No No. We can’t ignore the fact that the majority of people go for the content that is demanded by maximum no. of people. As a result they keep on posting the same content repeatedly which is already made/published by others. Make sure that your content is creative enough and niche to keep the followers engaged  and not lose their interest. 2. Posting Without Images Posts without images can be a really bad idea since people don’t go to social media to read a whole lot[…]

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Asp.Net Error: There is no build provider registered for the extension ‘.html’

NG Asp.Net, How to

When you try to map an html file in ASP.net and rewrite the URL to remove .html extension such as the example below routes.MapPageRoute(“myhtml”, “myhtml”, “~/Resources/demo/myhtml.html”); It throws an error as following There is no build provider registered for the extension ‘.html’. You can register one in the <compilation><buildProviders> section in machine.config or web.config The following configuration changes in web.config fixes it. <compilation debug=”true” targetFramework=”4.5″ > <buildProviders > <add extension=”.htm” type=”System.Web.Compilation.PageBuildProvider” /> <add extension=”.html” type=”System.Web.Compilation.PageBuildProvider”/> </buildProviders> </compilation>  

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Cordova Plugins: Review Unnecessary Permissions

NG Android, How to, Intel XDK, Plugin

If you went through the article on adding social sharing feature in HTML5 game using Intel XDK, it seemed like a simple plugin which should not require any permission but after adding the plugin and few more other plugins I found that WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission was added in my android app so I checked all plugins one by one to see which plugin is adding what permissions and found out that WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission was being added by social sharing plugin. When I checked developer notes (quoted below) I found that the permission was not required in my case, since I was not fetching any remote images for sharing. For sharing remote images (or other files) on Android, the file needs to be stored locally first, so add this permission to AndroidManifest.xml: <uses-permission android:name=“android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE“ /> In fact it was just a simple play store URL which I was sharing in my app so[…]

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WordPress Error: Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute

NG How to, WordPress

This error occurs when you try to update something in WordPress site and the update fails for some reason and then your site goes down and following message is displayed Don’t worry. The process to fix this is pretty straight-forward. Go to your blog installation folder and look for .maintenance file. This file is generated by WordPress when the update occurs and then removed after the update finishes. In case update fails and this file could not be removed, then the above error message is displayed. Delete this file and you will be back up.

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Four Ways To Develop A Contact List

Simy Digital Marketing, Online Marketing

In order to effectively use email marketing, we need to look at various ways of developing a contacts list. The ultimate goal of developing a contacts list is to enhance the length of prospects. Every email you send to people, has a possibility to get lead and convert those prospects into customers whether it is for the sale of a product/service or for promotional activities to increase traffic for a website/blog. Emails with quality content are the ones that can make a really good impact on the prospects. It doesn’t matter if you send just one or two emails in a month or an email campaigning, it works if you do it right way. In my previous post we talked about one of the ways for building contacts list which was to include a questionnaire form on your website. It is even possible to develop a list without having a website. Let see how: ⇒Sign Up Forms With the[…]

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Things To Note For The Best Web Hosting Service !!

Simy Digital Marketing, Online Marketing

If you have registered for an attractive and apt domain; you’re already a step ahead than others who are yet to come up with the idea of being online. Next step is selection of hosting service. Choosing a hosting service for their website has been a difficult task for people. Hosting is about storing and making your web page content accessible on web therefore, it plays a very important role. There are plenty of hosting service providers but not all meet expectations in reality. Also, it is not advisable to go for free hosting. Beware of any of such traps since not only does it come with limitations but also technical problems. Buying hosting from a reliable provider is going to keep you hassle free in future. A Good host is the one which provides quality support along with the hosting services. There are various categories of web hosting and I have come up[…]

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