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Re: http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2009/11/06/android-v8.html

jamesu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:37:27 -0000

CSS Transitions on Android are slow? Yikes! Guess that's my CSS Transition-based Game out of the picture then :(

Re: Flash on iPhone: My Experience

jamesu — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:15:07 -0000

Great write-up. It's nice to see flash finally appearing on the iPhone, albeit in app-form rather than in a fancy plugin. :)

A pity i haven't really taken flash seriously as a game development platform before this.

Performance-wise, getting into the "this is an embedded device with slow hardware" mindset does take a bit of getting used to. Nowadays i just refer to my little list of things which i know is slow. e.g. uncompressed texture uploads, disk i/o, various system api's, etc.

Re: A Browser within a browser: htmlcanvas

jamesu — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:29:46 -0000

Possible in the far future, sure - but seems a bit of overkill for a potentially annoying effect. ;)

Re: RailsCollab isn’t Dead

jamesu — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:06:35 -0000

No mailing list at the moment. Not been much demand for one - closest thing currently is the issue tracker on github.

Re: An Analogue Clock using Safari Transforms

jamesu — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:44:22 -0000

Yikes! Thanks for pointing that out. Seems i misconfigured the server - should work fine now. :)

Re: Cuppadev » Flash Plays SCUMM (sort of)

jamesu — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:57:21 -0000

Hi there. The code for hiscumm is not located at http://github.com/jamesu/closet/tree/master/his... :)

Re: Making a Real Calendar in Rails

jamesu — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:15:01 -0000

Regarding the plugin, as with my original code you can customise the event view by passing a block to the calendar helper (along with the configuration options). i.e.:

calendar event_calendar_options do |event|
"<div>#{h(event.name)}</div>"
end

Re: Making a Real Calendar in Rails

jamesu — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:45:50 -0000

Neat. Linked to from the post! :D

Re: Making a Real Calendar in Rails

jamesu — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:35:02 -0000

Kevin,

Good point. I don't have the schema off hand, but it went something like...

Events:
id(int), calendar_id(int), name(string), created_by_id(int), updated_by_id(int), start_date(datetime), end_date(datetime), repeat_id(int)
Calendar
id(int), name(string), created_by_id(int), updated_by_id(int)

The key bits being the Calendar and the calendar_id, start_date, end_date, and name on the Event.

Obviously modify to suit your needs :)

Hope that helps! :)

Re: Cloning Backpack

jamesu — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:36:35 -0000

Nice to hear! As for help, well basically just use it and give feedback is all that i ask.

If you are technically inclined, you might want to also fork it and implement some cool new feature or bugfix. There is actually quite a lively level of forking activity on the RailsCollab project (looking at the github page).

Same goes to Rucksack as well, btw :)

Re: iPhone Magic

jamesu — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:07:30 -0000

The page *is* the source. :)

Re: Playing Animated GIFs on the iPhone

jamesu — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:03:12 -0000

Hey there,

Yes i tried UIWebView, but unfortunately it's extremely temperamental about what gifs it will animate. Apart from stuff which is *really* small, you have no chance.

Not to mention, it is a fair bit of overhead if all you want to do is animate a single gif. :)

Re: Playing Animated GIFs on the iPhone

jamesu — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:29:57 -0000

Sent an email. Good luck :)

Re: SCUMM in JavaScript

jamesu — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:43:51 -0000

Hi there,

I moved it into the closet as i more or less stopped working on it. The reason being, it really liked to break for no apparent reason in a lot of browsers (e.g. FF3). Also, the novelty wore off. Still, could be useful if you want to implement a script interpreter for green threading. :)

See:

http://github.com/jamesu/closet/tree/master/his...

Re: Another way of using iPhone Web Apps Offline

jamesu — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:02:39 -0000

The only other way is to use the "data:/" URL hack (coupled with the database api), which i discussed in the iphone database article.

Or of course, make a real app. If you really want to write it as a web page, you can use something like PhoneGap.

Re: Making a Real Calendar in Rails

jamesu — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:00:53 -0000

Apologies. I have posted a GIST which contains all the code i used in an example app, if that helps with your implementation..

http://gist.github.com/74325

Re: Making a Real Calendar in Rails

jamesu — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:01:42 -0000

For this particular implementation, i started off with http://github.com/febuiles/cute_calendar/tree/m.... Then ended up merging most of it to my application helpers.

Re: Tweaking your game with Google Spreadsheets

jamesu — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:21:54 -0000

I like the spreadsheet approach, especially after seeing it used quite sensibly in Startopia. Taking it to the next level with Google Spreadsheets is nothing short of amazing!

Re: Making a Real Calendar in Rails

jamesu — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:39:50 -0000

For exporting to iCal, i suggest using the iCalendar gem - http://icalendar.rubyforge.org/ - which is pretty simple and straight forward to use (using an ics mime handler), especially if you use an event schema as suggested by the gist.

Re: Hard To Believe: Three Years Of Blogging

jamesu — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:04:38 -0000

Wow, it seems like only yesterday when i saw this blog and its oddly placed bold text and thought "Wow, Jeff started a new blog. Great! But wait, what is with this bold text? It must be some form of code!".

Sadly i never did crack the code. :)

So here's to another 3 years of blogging. Have fun.

Re: C to ActionScript via Adobe Alchemy

jamesu — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:26:31 -0000

Will try that as soon as i get Alchemy on my system again. Got a bit annoyed with it after finished this, but i may warrant another look considering the debugger and c++ compilation.

Re: C to ActionScript via Adobe Alchemy

jamesu — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:23:50 -0000

Thanks Ben. It is indeed cool, until of course after 5 minutes when you realize that there is little practical use for it, besides using it to run new games made with scummc (which is an even bigger pain). :)

btw, in case you missed it the modified code is at http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/hiscumm/scummc/trunk/ (most of the meat being in scvm.c)

Re: Running your own iPhone applications without paying the developer fee

jamesu — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:57:53 -0000

Not tried with 2.2, considering i coughed up and paid $99 for a real development sdk.

Still, i don't see the harm in patching. If it doesn't work you can just restore...

Re: An Analogue Clock using Safari Transforms

jamesu — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:51:11 -0000

No, however it might be possible to use IE's transforms to achieve the same effect. As for Firefox, i'm still waiting for the support.

Re: http://makeitbigingames.com/2008/11/push-button-labs-initial-site-goes-live/

jamesu — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:26:11 -0000

Great work Jeff! I thought you did a great job with GarageGames, and hope your success follows its way through into your new venture. :)