April 2012
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Not thirsty for cool projects at Saltbox
I’ve been working on the Saltbox team for about four months now, and I’ve had the privilege both to work with some very talented people and work on interesting projects, both on the frontend and the backend. Here I’m going to summarize what Saltbox is, a little bit about our talented founders and development team, and the projects I’ve been working on over these last few...
October 2011
2 posts
RAIN update
I have set up a new domain for my canvas-based Javascript game, which I’m currently calling “Rain”. It can now be found at http://rain-dev.saebyn.info/
Recent Projects
I have found myself writing about my most recent projects (as of October 2011) and I thought I’d put all of this in one place. Here it goes:
I have about six years of experience doing web application development, and have been programming since 1996 (first as a hobbyist, then professionally), primarily in C++, Python, and Javascript.
I’ve been developing projects using Django since...
August 2011
2 posts
GameJS and a simple demo
I’m using this library called gamejs to abstract over the HTML5 canvas API. It’s an incomplete reimplementation of pygame, which is a very popular 2d graphics (among other things) package for Python, in Javascript. Here’s where I’m hosting a simple demo of my game code in action: http://rain-game-dev.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
So no more flying players in my new game
I finally realized I could simply track when the player hit a horizontal surface and set a ‘onGround’ flag, and then turn that off when you jump. then each jump attempt checks the flag, if it’s not set it won’t let you jump. Obviously, I tried a much more complicated method first. So no more flying players in my new game! (at least unless I add jet pack or something)
May 2011
1 post
View Parameters in Reusable Django Apps
I’ve read through Eric Holscher’s blog post about Reusable App Conventions in Django a few times, and it got me thinking about problems I have had in the past with other developer’s apps.
When you write your views for a Django application you intend to release, unless every view has exactly the same keyword arguments, please make sure to add a **kwargs parameter to your views....
March 2011
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makewwebapp asked: Hello, I;m using your djnago classified code can you please tell me what os the cause of this error. Please check the snippets.
http://dpaste.com/475763/
http://dpaste.com/475763/
December 2010
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I was recently asked how I deal with nebulous or otherwise confused projects. Here’s what I told them:
Ill-defined projects have been par for the course during my freelance software development career. If the client had no experience as a programmer, and had not already hired someone to refine their project requirements, they frequently came to me with a proposal too vague to transform into...
November 2010
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?