Sam's Space

My little bit of something in this big space.

PHP Widgets

January 27, 2013

As some of you may know I’m currently in the process of create my very first WordPress plugin (Xbox Achievements). The idea behind the plugin is you will enter your gamertag in the settings and the rest is done by the app. It will download your game library and achievements for display on your blog. […]

Xbox Achievements Plugin

January 19, 2013

As some of you may know, i built a site http://xbonx.com which tracks gamertags. It creates game logs for every game you play and accounts achievements you earn. Anyways, onto what i want to talk about. I always wanted to integrate some xbox live stuff into my blog. A friend of mine @Cadab had already […]

Official Name: xBonx

December 1, 2011

Hey hey. Just writing this post as I purchased a new domain the other day, but didn’t want to post anything until the DNS had been set up. The site is now running under its offcial name of xBonx.com. The old URL (x.Bonxy.net) will stay will to. You can access your user accounts just by […]

Whats been added up to now

November 30, 2011

Since the last post which can be found here i have piled a few more features into the Xbox achievements. Firstly, with some help off @Cadab, i managed to sort out a neat little feature using what is normally a 404 error page. This meant that i could create whatever i wanted to go after […]

A different type of Xbox achievements

November 19, 2011

While spending a little time developing a twitter for xbox app last night, which im sure @Cadab will do a write up for soonish, i came accross the idea of taking a users xbox details and awarding achievements. They would not be achievements like in-game achievements, nor would they offer you gamerscore. Its basically just […]

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