At 5/20/09 09:21 PM, Sterance wrote: Way to be elitist Tom. Just when i feel like this power of three thing is a great example of NG, you go and do this.

You know better than anyone else that there are tons of great flashes that get missed and never get awards.

You might as well rename this event "The power of popularity on Newgrounds."

Nothing is stopping you from continuing to form a team and make a game.

Of course there are flashes that get missed. But this isn't as simple as featuring something on the front page. When you have an event like this with limited scope you need some form of proof of entry, some kind of cut-off line. I don't think Tom has the time to manually review each flash submission from each questionable applicant.

So create your game, and make it good! And next time something like this comes around you'll have something to show. This power of three thing shouldn't be the only thing fueling your interest in making quality flash.

I think Luis needs to join a few more teams

Re-make

At 5/16/09 05:54 PM, Prid-Outing wrote: "Is there allowed to use the characters in the Power Of Three poster"?

what?

This contest stereotypes; I don't wear glasses

http://www.thetechlabs.com/video/how-to-
build-a-as3-videoplayer/

http://www.thetechlabs.com/xml/expanding -the-as3-videoplayer/

I might suggest stacking the header and nav on top of each other and placing the ad underneath, instead of having it in-between.

Also I think the 'xhtml validated!' buttons/banners are kinda tacky, but that's just my opinion.

At 5/8/09 09:14 PM, crapatflash wrote: Don't waste time trying to convert TV sizes. As long as you can hook up your computer to the TV screen, you can get it using trail and error. It would take ages trying to figure out the resolution issues.

yeah that's probably what it's going to come down to. Unfortunately I wont be able to test this stuff for another couple weeks until I get back home.

YOU'RE asking this??

first times for everything ;)

At 5/8/09 01:31 PM, Yambanshee wrote: if its not to hard to do, you could play around with some basic animations to hook onto ur tv, and then see which of them works the best. It could lead to interesting results, however i have heard of a tv program on cartoon network (i think...) that is made entirely in flash. Fosters home for imaginary friends or something like that. If you are brave enuf u can try analys what techniques they use.

Well, that's a bit different. The show is made with TV in mind as the final output. Most likely the show is animated in flash then exported to some appropriate video format so that it displays correctly on tv.

I forgot that monitors use square pixels and televisions use rectangular ones, which changes things ever so slightly. I suppose I'll just stick with my 720x480 idea for now until I get a chance to actually hook it up to a tv and check.

I'm interested in making my next game tv-friendly in a standard definition sense.

In other words I want to be able to output my computer's screen to a TV, run my game full-size, and have it look comparable to an actual video game.

Right now my idea is to simply create the game as 720x480, the standard resolution for NTSC television. Let's also assume that all graphics are created as bitmaps, and for the 720x480 size. So when fullscreened on my PC they should look pixilated, but when sent through the TV would it look normal?

I'm not incredibly keen on aspect ratios and presentation so any help on the subject is appreciated.

and when you do be more descriptive, 'making a block thing' could mean a thousand things.

The coding may be simple but it's also very incorrect. You should really read through some html and css tutorials at w3schools

http://www.w3schools.com/htmL/

One of the most important things is to not use H1,2,3,4 etc for everything on the page. H tags are meant for headings. "Welcome To SteerArt" would be a heading. Everything else could probably fall into a span or paragraph tag.

all tags, attributes, and css properties should be lowercase. All tag attributes should be encased in double quotes. ie align="center"

content should be wrapped in divs and centered with the css text-align property.

there's never a need to use target="_self", it's the default

As for the design itself- consider wrapping things into a column layout instead of centering everything down the page. It makes for an awkward flow, because the eyes have to move to a different horizontal position with every line.

iphone apps are programmed in objective-c
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C

sup Zendra

ps. I don't check this thread as much as I should =(

At 4/28/09 12:26 PM, yhar wrote:

At 4/28/09 12:15 PM, Afro-Ninja wrote: $input = preg_replace('!(<br/>){2,}!i', '<br/>', $input);

\s matches a blank space, so "<br />" should be "<br\s\/>", so I've changed it to:

$input = preg_replace('!(<br\s\/>){2,}!i', '<br />', $input);

try this one

$input = preg_replace('!(<br\s*/>\s*){2,}!i', '<br />', $input);

I changed the \s to \s*, the \s means 'zero or more' times. Then I took out the following back slash, because you don't need to escape the forward slash with ! delimiters

We need to take line breaks into account, so another \s* is added at the end (zero or more whitespace/linebreaks)

that *should* work, but I'm by no means a regex expert. I'm sure even this simple pattern could be made more efficient.

here's a simple one

$input='Hello<br/><br/><br/><br/>';
$input = preg_replace('!(<br/>){2,}!i', '<br/>', $input);
echo $input;

it doesn't take whitespace inside the tag into account though, like the ones dfox linked to

The exclamation marks delimit the whole pattern. You can use any number of characters, most people use forward slashes. I didn't use them because the pattern itself contains a forward slash as part of the <br/>, meaning it would need to be escaped if I did.

The parentheses identify that we're looking to match <br/> as a whole. The {2,} means 'two or more times'

Lastly, the i at the end means case insensitive.

if notice is a string value then whatever value you set it to needs to be wrapped in single quotes

notice = '$notice'

sure the offer still stands :)

site is live!!

http://afro-ninja.com

if you accessed the temp site recently you'll probably have to clear your cache, otherwise you'll get the apache 'great success!' message

At 4/27/09 03:31 AM, yhar wrote: If I go to sign up on a computer shared by multiple people, then someone else goes to sign up, the dropdown box will include my password because you've opted for text field, which is the wrong sort for exactly this reason.

ack, I didn't think about that possibility at all- I'll change it, thanks.

as for mysqli, I suppose I should have done more research on the subject first : /

At 4/27/09 01:23 AM, adam2510 wrote: sorry for triple post but change

http://www.afro-ninja.com/account/valida te_user.php?id=50465&code=ea6f147229cd04 ae47f48e3b69853d7a
to
http://67.227.130.133/account/validate_u ser.php?id=50465&code=ea6f147229cd04ae47 f48e3b69853d7a
for the validation to work

oh yeah, sorry about this. The final site needs to use the url 'afro-ninja.com' of course so I just left it as-is, you have to manually change it to the ip address for it to work right

Just an observation - This came up under What's New:

no worries, that's something I'm in the middle of working on now

password fields should be "****" not "blah"

I've always felt that password fields should remain plain text for signups, just so the user can know for sure what they used.

At 4/26/09 08:39 PM, GiantPugStudios wrote: hmm,very cool,love not having to open another window to open a flash,all together its very nice,there are some bugs,but I know you will fix them down the road,but its very cool!

what bugs?

At 4/26/09 07:12 AM, yhar wrote: Registering with newsletter set:

SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'afronew_dbmain.an_newsletter' doesn't exist

My username is now _-__-_, however I didn't get a welcome email.

ok the newsletter thing should be fixed, another dumb naming mistake that I didn't go back and check. As for the welcome email, did you check your junk mail?

thanks for the feedback so far guys!

The layout itself is fine, it's hard to make much of a judgment call on it just yet. I validated your page as xhtml transitional and it caught this error:

<span><p>Type your blog entry here</p></span>

you can't have a p element inside of span- span is inline, p is block. Other than that your code seems clean, why not try for xhtml strict? it's not that much more of a jump.

At 4/25/09 11:00 PM, Thomas wrote: The knoxius.com email I used when I made '---', so I think that's nothing to worry about, but I don't recall if I've ever used abcknox on your website. It could just be an error on my part xD

You signed up for my site on Jan 11, 2006 with that email and the username 'Thomas'
account # 360 :)

At 4/25/09 07:50 PM, Thomas wrote: I tried to sign-up and was given this message (with valid fields):
SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'amount' in 'field list'

I apparently still signed up, though. Another thing, you should make the name forcibly use letters, as I was able to sign-up an account named '---'.

ah, thanks! I just made the mistake of naming the field 'amt' instead of 'amount' and didn't go back to test it. I realize some crappy usernames can be created but I wasn't too worried about it.

It also seems that you have a problem with error checking emails. It said that my email was already in use, when I used an email I'm sure no one that has tried to sign-up knew about.

what email were you trying to sign up with? the site is new but uses the old database, so any account signed up ever is still included.

At 4/25/09 06:26 PM, Jon-86 wrote: Cool in 15 days maybe 16 am gonnie give this a go. Mainly for the learning experience. I don't know much about security. But aye a will do some reading and see what a can find. The only question I have it. Was this useful to you last time? I had thought about HackerSafe for some of my sites, but its kinda expensive.

I don't remember everything from last time, but I know there was a lot of little javascript things that slipped through. I'm curious to see if new issues have arisen, or if there are just some dumb things I've glanced over.

Some of you may remember that years ago, when I launched the original new afro-ninja.com, I had a thread just like this. The idea was that any legitimate exploits in my site's security would warrant 5$ over paypal.

Well, it's finally time for the NEW new afro-ninja.com, and the deal is back again. So before I go any further, here's how you get there:

http://67.227.130.133/
name: an_new
pass: celesty

If you have no interest in testing I'd still appreciate any feedback on the overall look, design, feel, navigation, etc.

This site is a huge leap forward from the last one- I had smulse and Undercover studios help with the layout and graphics, respectively. From there I took the template and fleshed it out into the full site. Everything should validate as xhtml strict (save for some missing alt="" attributes), and all database transactions are done through prepared queries via PDO. Everything is in working order except the 'what's new' section at the top left of the home page.

Again, I'm looking for actual exploits and hacks here- posting some foreign characters or breaking a layout box isn't so much my concern at this point. But I'm willing to paypal some cash for anything used toward the bettering of my site. And if it's a serious issue I'll pay more than 5$.

I also reserve the right to have the final judgment on this, just in case someone is able to exploit the same problem an infinite number of ways and claim it's different each time.

THX GO GO GO

At 4/24/09 09:04 PM, TomFulp wrote: And FUCK AS3 but seriously

It's the future, Tom.
The future.