Let’s take a break from talking about games for a brief journey into the world of web development. I’ve done a fair bit of work with PHP and I want to address the issue of secure file uploads.
File uploading is a scary thing for web developers. You’re allowing complete strangers to put whatever they want onto your precious web server. In this article I’ll be dealing entirely with the uploading of images, and how to ensure that what a user is giving you is actually an image.… Continue reading
As small-time Windows Phone developers looking to monetize our apps, the free-with-ads model is very attractive. So this week, I buckled down and took a shot at integrating the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone into one of our existing games, Follow the Curve.
The SDK itself is quite simple to use. Microsoft provides an extremely detailed tutorial on getting started, as well as a code sample to inspire you. Piece of cake, right? Well, almost. Right off the bat, I had a problem: the sample would run, but no ads would appear.… Continue reading
