Almost ready to launch new game

The title says it all really.  New game is almost ready to release.  Oooh, the tension!  Can you bear it?

:)

Theme rollout to Onslaught

The new and delightful playr theme has now been rolled out to the Onslaught site. I think I've found all the pages that use it but I'm almost certain to have missed once or two, which I'm sure I'll find in due course.

If there's any glaring rendering issues or CSS bugs, please drop me a comment here.  I think it all looks lovely now, and reasonably consistent across the rest of the playr games too :)

In other news, now the rebranding is almost complete I can start working on getting my current project out the door.  News shortly!

G.

S3 problem partly solved

In that I have found that Transmit and Cyberduck all handle the content-type correctly so until I hear back from Interarchy I'll be using Cyberduck to upload my CSS files.  Joy.

Also, made a few tweaks to the styles across the sites.  Having a consistent design and centralised stylesheet really does kick ass, I can make changes in one place and all the sites are updated live.  Nice :)

G.

Curious bug with S3

During the process of rebranding the playr sites I found a curious bug in the way Firefox handles CSS files.  I wanted to reduce the load on my server so I've hosted some of the files on the Amazon S3 Simple Storage Service.  Great service, practically unlimited bandwidth and very cheap to boot.

However, for reasons unknown, when I uploaded my CSS to S3 it was saved with a content type of binary/octet-stream.  As any g33k will know that's an encoding used to tranfer generic files, not a specific content type like text/css, or audio/mp3.  Whilst this doesn't faze IE or Safari it did cause a problem for Firefox.  The CSS file was supposed to @import some other CSS from other files but when Firefox saw the CSS, and the fact that it was in a binary encoding it refused to parse it as CSS.  This resulted in no CSS loading and the entire page looking broken.

Moving the CSS to a standard Apache host solved the problem but I wanted it hosted on S3.  I asked the question in the S3 support forum and got a reply which pointed me at Bucket Explorer.  I used this to manually set the content type to text/css and the problem is solved in Firefox now.

Was this a bug in the way Firefox handles CSS files with the wrong content-type coming from the server or was it a bug in the way my S3 client failed to identify the file as CSS and set the content-type accordingly?  We may not know but I'll be submitting some bug reports for sure.

UPDATE: I have submitted a bug report to bugzilla and I have contacted Interarchy support as well, fingers crossed somebody will resolve the issue.  In the mean time I have found that Transmit does correctly set the content-type of CSS files it uploads to S3.

New blog theme

Well, actually a new playr theme.  I've been busy rebranding the playr suite of sites as I was pretty fed up with the crappy design they used to have.  Very very basic, black and white, no actual style so I have remedied the situation and created a better set of graphics to go on all the current and future playr sites.

I'm still in the process of updating some of the other sites so the new look will come online with all the sites when I get round to working out the kinks but for the moment you can enjoy the new look on the blog, the playr homepage and the memory game.  Sudoku will stay the same but Onslaught will soon be rebranded too.

Nice :)

Change of name

Been meaning to do this for a while but I've finally re-domained the blog to a proper playr domain name:

http://blog.playr.co.uk

The old domain should redirect to the new name so all blogging links ought to carry on working fine.  Nice.

Also, there ought to be a new game coming soon from the Playr stable.  As usual I'll keep posting updates here on the blog.