{"id":91,"date":"2014-10-23T00:15:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T03:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.24.147.87\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2016-08-30T22:53:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:53:21","slug":"cool-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/cool-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page is a\u00a0selection of projects, products, or tutorials that I have found very helpful while maintaining this site.\u00a0 It covers a wide variety of topics, but all are central to launching an App.\u00a0 It is actively maintained as new products and pages become available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Software and\/or Services Actually Used on the Site<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Amazon Web Services\" href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Web Services<\/a> &#8211; This is where my site will be hosted.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EC2 USer Guide\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/putty.html\" target=\"_blank\">EC2\u00a0User Guide<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Amazon&#8217;s user guide in pdf<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WordPress Website Creation Framework\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress <\/a>&#8211; <em>is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the\u00a0same\u00a0time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Customizr Demo\" href=\"http:\/\/demo.themesandco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Customizr <\/a>&#8211; The WordPress Theme that I started with.\u00a0 It is by <a title=\"Themes &amp; Co\" href=\"http:\/\/themesandco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Themes &amp; Co<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Supporting Software Used Locally on my PC<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Putty\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chiark.greenend.org.uk\/~sgtatham\/putty\/download.html\">Putty <\/a>&#8211; The world famous ssh client<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/the.earth.li\/~sgtatham\/putty\/0.60\/htmldoc\/Chapter8.html#pubkey-puttygen\" href=\"http:\/\/the.earth.li\/~sgtatham\/putty\/0.60\/htmldoc\/Chapter8.html#pubkey-puttygen\">PuttyGen <\/a>&#8211; Used to create the private keys for Putty when connecting to aws<\/p>\n<p>Vi &#8211; This is my favorite vi editor for Widows.\u00a0 I keep going back to it because there is no install, and you can take it everywhere on a USB key.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Tools Used for Graphic Manipulation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"gimp - A Free Photoshop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">gimp <\/a>&#8211; Think <a title=\"Adobe Photoshop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/photoshop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photoshop<\/a>, but free.\u00a0 <em>GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Paint.Net\" href=\"http:\/\/www.getpaint.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paint.Net<\/a> &#8211; A image tool that is that is less complex than Photoshop or Gimp, but still gets the job done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>libGDX Tutorials<\/h3>\n<p>These are listed more so that I can keep track of useful links.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"libGDX Wiki\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/libgdx\/libgdx\/wiki\/Introduction\" target=\"_blank\">libGDX Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/page\/LibGDX-Tutorial-series.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/page\/LibGDX-Tutorial-series.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/page\/LibGDX-Tutorial-series.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Resources for Android<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Android Sponsered Development Downloads\" href=\"http:\/\/developer.android.com\/design\/downloads\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Android Downloads <\/a>&#8211; Android Supported Developer Downloads<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Android Dveloper Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/android-developers.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Android Developer Blog<\/a> &#8211; Lots of good resources here, it just takes some searching and reading<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Android Design Videos\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/design\/videos\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Android Design Videos<\/a> &#8211; Many of the conference talks an Android are available on uTube.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Other Projects that May Relate to App Development<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>These are project that I can not vouch for, but have found while researching this site and want to document them so that I have chance to go back to them later.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tiled - Free Map Editor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mapeditor.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiled <\/a>&#8211; Your free, easy to use and flexible tile map editor<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Spine - 2d Animation Software\" href=\"http:\/\/esotericsoftware.com\/spine-download\/\">Spine <\/a>&#8211; Awesome 2D Animation software\u00a0&#8211; It is not free, but is worth a link.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Projects that May Relate to App Development<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Creating Sequence Diagrams<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.websequencediagrams.com\/\">https:\/\/www.websequencediagrams.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Project Management\/Agile Boards<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trello.com\/\">Trello <\/a>is the free, flexible, and visual way to organize anything with anyone<\/p>\n<h3>Other Items I Might Look into Later<\/h3>\n<p>Inventory icons to purchase\/license from 7Soul on gamedevmarket.net:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamedevmarket.net\/asset\/16x16-icons-for-rpg-pack-1-915\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/www.gamedevmarket.net\/asset\/16&#215;16-icons-for-rpg-pack-1-915\/<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nature sounds under the CC BY 3.0 License:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Sounds_of_Nature_Collection\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Sounds_of_Nature_Collection<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other sounds and instruments:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.modarchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/tracker.modarchive.org\/<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page is a\u00a0selection of projects, products, or tutorials that I have found very helpful while maintaining this site.\u00a0 It covers a wide variety of topics, but all are central to launching an App.\u00a0 It is actively maintained as new products and pages become available. &nbsp; 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