February 2012
1 post
January 2012
3 posts
Indie Game The Movie Wins at Sundance! →
Coffeescript one-liner of the day
Need to cross check two arrays to see if any values match? Checkout out this beauty:
any = (arr1, arr2) -> true in (val in arr1 for val in arr2) any [‘cat’, ‘dog’], [‘snake’,’mouse’,’dog’,’horse’,’turtle’] # true
Art Fag City on Damien Hirst Spot Paintings... →
[Some art historian/blogger of the future will] …see that there was a massive show spread across every location of the most successful gallery of the time, entirely comprised of one of the most successful artists of the time, and that it was supported by some of the most illustrious voices money could buy. So I’m going to lay this down, just to clarify, so that nobody from the future gets...
December 2011
4 posts
Rhizome on Ian Bogot →
MelonCard: How One Missing `var` Ruined our Launch →
meloncard:
Well, that was a veritable shitstorm (sorry for the language). Long story short, MelonCard was featured today on TechCrunch (along with other 500Startups companies, also on VentureBeat, Forbes, …) and everything broke all at once. Every. little. thing. We had rolled out a huge…
Caching Ajax Requests in jQuery →
November 2011
3 posts
Pepper Spraying Cop Meme →
October 2011
21 posts
zombie-jasmine-spike project showing you how to... →
NoRails: Application Design in Times of APIs →
Reminds me of an earlier article I pointed to. It’s starting to smell like there is a definite trend to moving away from the giant monolithic MVC frameworks like Rails and to breaking up your code into a domain backend exposing itself to client applications via API.
Why? I think it probably has to do with many things.
Exposing a public API is all the rage by letting other devs build value...
This is Luxe: Fashioning the Apocalypse →
Forests & Sands - Camera Obscura
And Another. Rhizome blogs about Appropriation... →
Indie Games that Talk About LGBTQ Issues, Click... →
Important Backbone tips
1. WHEN YOU REMOVE A VIEW… DON’T FORGET TO UNBIND YOUR EVENTS!
I’ve been caught on this way too many times. If you bind say a view to add a div on a collection add, navigate away and remove that view, then navigate back and create a new view it will start to add two divs at once because it’s now bound the events twice.
This makes me think it’s better to not remove...
Coffeescript Supersedes Rails by Ben Nolan →
Map Reduce in Coffeescript
One of my favorite things about coffeescript is it’s loops and comprehensions. Check out this little gem.
dogs = [‘poodle’,’ugly poodle’, ‘ugly basset hound’, ‘puggle’, ‘newfoundland’]
uglyDogs = (dog for dog in dogs when dog.match /ugly/)
I won’t even show you what that looks like in compiled JS because you may just...
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Zach Klein's List of Very Good Internet Jobs: I... →
goodjobs:
I’m collaborating with Encyclopedia Pictura to develop an augmented reality app. EP will direct artwork and gameplay, so you can count on the experience to be a stunning complement to your work. We’ll release iOS first, then Android.
We need three more folks to get started. It would be best…
If I didn’t already find an awesome job from Zach Klein’s list I would...
Netflix on Fast Iterations →
FFVII is a Masterpiece
Yes, the whole series of Final Fantasy is really what we should take into consideration here.
Final Fantasy VI is probably even more of a masterpiece, but I have yet to play it. (Yes I am trying to get around to that soon).
But there is no doubting the impact of FFVII.
There is an incredible story involving a slew of characters and a beautiful art direction & sound track to follow.
Sure,...
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Knock Knock Joke 2.0
MAN: *Knock Knock*
WOMAN: Who's there?
MAN: James
WOMAN: James who?
Heartbroken, James walked back to his car. His mother's dementia had become so bad she could not even recognize her own son.
Amazing Article on Games & Art in NYC →
This hits all the right notes for me.
Babycastles
Cory Archangel’s MET show
Molleindustria
Video game history & Nostalgia aesthetics
The Artist is Present
And more!
Progressive Enhancement Sucks
Progressive enhancement, it’s not worth it.
Ok so you host a site that has 10% IE users, or god forbid worse. So in that case you must support IE at-least > 7. Or you’re still concerned about the less than 1% of users who have javascript disabled.
So you build your site progressively. Starting from the bottom up, IE6 to IE7 to IE8 to IE9 then finally you’re allowed to...
September 2011
21 posts
Great Interview with 'Flower' Creators... →
Windows 8 Native Apps Will Use HTML/CSS/Javascript →
I hate to say it but this may make me a Windows fan boy.
Bushwick Bar & Art Spaces →
Think Vitamin reminds you to not forget the color... →
Sentry... it's like a guard or watchr for Node.js →
I’ve published a small node module that allows a simple API for watching file changes and executing a function or shell command. Lemme know what you think.
How to find the parent file path of a node module
I’m writing a file watcher, and I want to know what directory I’m making calls to my node module from not /node_modules/watchr/src/watchr.coffee/ so to this: simply use the reserved word module and the path module
require(‘path’).dirname(module.parent.filename)
Hyperallergic Interviews the Creator of "The... →
Minecraft-Like Xbox Live Indie FortressCraft... →
My friend is looking to work in startup world....
Molleindustria Interview on Apple Banning their... →
The Artist is Present Indie Game Based off Marina... →
(Be sure to set your clock backwards if you’re viewing this too late! Nice touch)
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Apple bans Indie Game critiquing the phone... →
Drunk Moose Gets Stuck in a Tree →
And you thought you had a crazy night.
Nike Releases Back to the Future Shoe →
<3 Magnetic Fields
EDD: Experiment Driven Development →
I think my favorite of the DDs is the combination of DDD, TDD, and EDD. But of course, let us not forget BDD (No, not the silly term for reframing your acceptance tests to be more human readable) and of course FDD