The Play! framework went and made Java development more fun than Ruby development (*ducks*) – and then Martin Odersky went and made Java more fun than Java (*considers ducking, but doesn’t*), and then the Play framework went and mashed those fun things together and now there is the Play! 2.0 framework. Play 2.0 gives a […]
Since having a chat about what I learned from watchin’ live coding, I’ve received buckets of emails ‘n’ tweets asking for links to the videos… After an epic google search of 5 minutes I’ve collected them all and aggregated them in this one happy place. Someone coded Prelude of the Chambered for the Lundum Dare […]
“Bit of advice: if you want a role model, pick an old guy. By the time you grow up, they’re dead” – Bob’s Burgers Six hundred games: invented, designed, and coded – in 2 days. That was the Lundum Dare game competition #21, held from the 19th to the 22nd of August. Hoards of game […]
I was messing around with Google’s “correlate draw” thingo and found a sad story regarding Windows Mobile Apps mentions… What happened there, hey?!
Google+ is this service that google made that you might have heard about. It’s like Twitter, except instead of 140 characters you can write a novel, or post every lolcat picture you find. Then, everyone’s collected novels and lolcat collections then get collated and displayed into a single, mammoth, animated-gif-filled, crazily formated, document that google […]
[To coincide with the transcendent Paris DemoJS party, here is a repost of an article I wrote for the Powerhouse Museum as part of their “The 80s are back” exhibition.] It’s 1985, and millions of Commodore 64 computers are connected to millions of television sets around the globe. The sole purpose of these 1-megahertz, 16-color […]
Over the years I’ve written hundreds of small scripts and apps for various tasks I need doing. Although these are often quite useful, I rarely release or share them. I’m not some kind of horrible code miser, mind you, it’s just that my scripts are always hacked together in such a way that they work […]
Did you know that over 18% of the worlds code was written by programmers fueled by pizza? It would surprise me if you did, because I just made that up. But at any rate, nothing tastes more disgusting than the pizza you have to eat because you’re stuck at work on a Saturday desperately trying […]
It’s good to be reminded that you’re shit. Today Fabrice Bellard released jslinux – a 32 bit CPU emulator which loads a fully-functional linux kernel: including Emacs, and a C compiler. Holy Poopsmith. Seeing as I now had a JavaScript-powered coding environment handy – and being inspired by Fabrice’s unrelenting productivity – I decided code […]