Matt Oakes

Hello. I'm a web developer from Cheshire in England.

Latest Blog Posts

  • New Design

    I’ve been working on replacing the new design for a while. The old one was looking fairly old, even thought it was less than a year old… I also wanted to change the design so that it could be used for different projects that I’m doing. This means that the PHP Lastfm API website and the...

  • Lugaru Downloader

    It just occured to me that I haven’t blogged about this yet. I’ve been messing around with Adobe AIR a bit recently and I decided to put some of the stuff I learnt to use and make a working application. As I was getting interested in a game called Overgrowth by an indie game company called...

  • Getting to grips with 7

    I’m a long time Windows user. I’ve been using it since Windows 3.1 and to be honest, I like it. That’s not something you’d hear a web designer say, but I’m gonna say it anyway because it is a really nice operating system. For the past year and a bit I’ve been using Windows Vista. It’s...

  • PHP Last.fm API Version 0.7.1 Released

    Version 0.7.1 of the PHP Last.fm API has been released. To download it you can go to the project website and press the download button. It is another very small update. All it is is a (fairly major) bug fix which allows non-subscribers to make authenitcated API calls. Thanks to all the people who reported it...

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  • lastfm API

    A PHP class which allows you to make calls to the lastfm API with just a few simple lines of PHP. It will simply return a normal array which you can then use in your application. It supports caching via SQLite or MySQL with very little configuration.

  • Lugaru Downloader

    The Lugaru Downloader greatly simplifies to process of downloading and installing user made campaigns for Wolfire's ninja rabbit game Lugaru. It works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It is built with the Adobe AIR SDK and supports automatic caching and backup of the main campaign.