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Touch-based web app design problems

How do we target both touch-based and mouse-based devices?

I attended a course on mobile web design and it got me thinking about the compatibility of the web with touch-based devices. Touch-based devices do not have the same design issues, but that difference creates a more complex overall design challenge. How do we target both touch-based and mouse-based devices?

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  • Tue, 17 Sep 2013
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Output clean JSON data from Twitter API v1.1 using PHP

I was making a mobile app with Tersus (WYSIWYG RAD) as a school project, and I noticed Twitter no longer has an open XML feed. I looked around and most of the Twitter apps I saw were outdated or simply used the Twitter widget (JS only). For that reason, I took a few hours out of my day to develop a workflow for interacting with Twitter in PHP using the TwitterOAuth library, which is a very nice object-oriented abstraction layer for the generic OAuth library (included with previously mentioned library).

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  • Tue, 06 Aug 2013
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Unity Shaders and Effects Cookbook

I had a chance to read Unity Shaders and Effects Cookbook by Kenneth Lammers.

It is a really nice book and could very well be my shaders bible. Check out my review.

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