Not magic, just a different kind of science.
It was brought to my attention by a comment in a previous article that my HaXe trace target should be platform agnostic (I think that's the right term). In particular, he wanted a trace target for JS and PHP. Well I'm happy to report it took about 5 minutes to add JS support! PHP will have […]
MoreFor being so narcissistic, AS3 is not great at reflection (yes, I really just made that joke). You can, however, make life a little easier with the little bit it does have. Awhile ago I was refactoring all our project's cursor code. We were embedding a bunch of PNGs and going through and initializing them […]
MoreIt was here before I was born--before any of us were born, and no one knew exactly what it was. The priests were raised to maintain it. They were each assigned modules to look after, memorizing line by line millions of bytes of letters and punctuation. The priests understood little but the people even less. […]
MoreThe web is, to put it mildly, a fierce and fickle mistress. As a development platform, it's like trying to ride a horse-sized stick of margarine and your reins are made of light-sabers. Seriously, I'm talking to you Mozilla, Opera, Google, and whoever shoveled IE together--quit "innovating" (I guess some people use Safari too, and that's […]
MoreAs boring as the title sounds (and it does sound boring), it's a worthwhile investment to get a good logging solution going on whatever platform you're developing on. I've been playing around with haXe lately and I discovered its trace() function to be severely lacking--that is, until I actually read the documentation (I'm a man, we […]
MoreNow I'm no English prude (I'm glad I have spell check as at first I typed out "grammer prude"), but Apple has done something that ruffles my grammatical feathers. They have used their fancy paints and their odd angles to slip something in under the lexical radar without so much as a blip. The New […]
MoreMy fascination with the game Scorched Earth knows no bounds. One might say I am the Mother of All Scorched Earth Fans. One of my earliest fascinations with the game (keep in mind, I was like 10) was that I could play for hours and hours and never play the same level twice. The ground […]
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