Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr.

Marketing Resources For Indies and Others (Part 1 of many)

Here’s some interesting marketing resources for online marketing and even some real-world marketing.  They cover a pretty broad spectrum from search engine optimization to social media, without having to spend an money to do it – just an investment of your time.  And, just for the heck of it, I wrote up reviews of each …

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The big list of Indie Game Development Resources

I’ve considered starting my own list of everything related to Indie game development – then I ran across Pixel Prospector’s Indie Resources list.  There’s no need for me to start my own now – their’s is pretty complete!  Covers all sorts of stuff, ranging from inspiration and design, to graphics & sound, to the all …

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Ways to Help Defend WordPress From Attackers and BotNets

As I’m writing this, MidnightRyder.com is under continuous attack from a BotNet. Of course, you might notice that it’s still up and running just fine – there’s reasons for that, and I’m going to help you keep yours up and running, too. Not familiar with the term “BotNet”? I’ll simplify a bit here: it’s a …

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Scrolling to specific Div (or other) ID’s with iScroll 4

A while back I did a little hacking on iScroll 4, which I use quite a bit for PhoneGap based applications (though, it works nice for anything mobile except Windows phones. IE doesn’t like iScroll). iScroll is becoming a bit less necessary (particularly after iOS 5 was released, which made some changes to mobile Safari), …

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Why I’m Still Using DreamHost, 10 Years Later (And Lessons For Other Businesses To Consider)

10 years ago I got burned by my host.  Almost without warning, they went out of business – I didn’t have a whole lot of time to evaluate who I wanted to move to, so I did some quick Googling.  Well, actually, I didn’t Google it.  At that time Alta-Vista would have been the major …

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Launching External URL’s in PhoneGap… Again. (Phonegap 2.4.x)

One of the disadvantages of using PhoneGap / Cordova for app development: sometimes it’s like hitting a moving target.  Not just the API, but the methodologies for projects change frequently.  It’s not bad enough to make the platform undesirable for iOS and Android development, but sometimes it makes you pull your hair out wondering why something from …

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