About the app:

Stone skimming is a worldwide pastime, although depending on where you come from it could be called skipping rocks, baking pancakes, letting the frogs out, letting the ducks out or making white-caps. Whatever you might call it, the rules and fun factor are the same wherever you’re playing… and now that could be anywhere with the Golakes Go Skimming app.

The aim of the game is to choose the right stone and throw it across the water. Your iPhone / iPod Touch becomes your stone – the trick is in the action you use to swing your device to get the most hops.

Features:

• Four lakes for you to choose from: Windermere, Ullswater, Derwentwater and Wastwater (voted Britain’s best view) with high resolution water effects
• Unique skimming mechanic for both left- and right-handed players
• Music by the Cumbrian musician Jamie Sims

Read on for the storyboard design and the download link!

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Here is a screenshot of the original storyboard I designed for the app development:

The full storyboard will be available to view on my portfolio website later this week!

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And now…

Please let me know what you think of the app and your high score, at the moment it is at 11 hops!

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The main fixes of WordPress 2.8.5 are:

• Trackback Denial-of-Service attack fix
• Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated
• Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins
• Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins

It is strongly recommended to upgrade as soon as you can, either via your WP admin panel or download WordPress 2.8.5 directly from here.

Since the integration of the Flash and PDF ( since ColdFusion 8 ) platforms, more and more developers are flocking towards ColdFusion again, and it is seen as a great alternative to meet business needs quickly and effectively, and more and more businesses are hiring ColdFusion developers because of that.

Read more about ColdFusion 9′s key features and download links…

Some of the Coldfusion 9 features include:

• ColdFusion Object Relational Mapping (ColdFusion ORM) – a powerful Rapid Application Development (RAD) solution for building data-centric applications
• Offline application support for AIR applications
• Enhanced Flash remoting capabilities
• A broader set of Ajax controls that leverage the new Ext JS 3.0 library
• Improved PDF functionality
• Integration with other products and technologies such as Microsoft SharePoint and OpenOffice
• Server Manager – an AIR-based desktop application to centrally manage multiple ColdFusion servers from a single location
• Powerful search capabilities using Solr, an open-source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library
• database enhancements and significant performance enhancements such as, granular control over caching, in-memory file capabilities, and improved clustering
• many language and CFC enhancements

You can download the ColdFusion 9 beta here, the ColdFusion builder beta can be found here (Adobe Labs membership required). As always, these are betas and may still contain a ton of bugs, so make sure you backup and existing projects, just to be safe

The startup time and JS speed improvements are noticeable and welcome, and the visual tab previews are finally here and worth the wait.

By default, the new visual tabs are currently hidden in the FF3.6 alpha build, you can easily access them via an about:config tweak. Read on to learn how to add these…

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Adding visual tab previews to FireFox 3.6 alpha

To add visual tab previews in FF3.6a. just open a new tab an enter: about:config. Then, add the values:
browser.ctrlTab.previews = true
browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed = true

Now, restart FF3.6, open a couple of tabs and press CTRL+TAB to activate it. This should now show the new visual previews to both new and last used tabs.

For detailed information about compatibility changes in Gecko 1.9.2 and Namoroka, please read Firefox 3.6 for developers. For a full list of changes, see this list (it’s a big list).

As such, please update your WordPress installation as soon as you can and download WordPress 2.8.4 from here.

This is a security update and it is therefore highly recommended to update the WordPress installation immediately (you should be seeing the “Please update now” ribbon on top of the screen when you log into your wordpress blog.

Download WordPress 2.8.3 from here.