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
1 post
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
1 post
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
1 post
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?