For the past week, my iPhone’s have been unable to use Gmail. After approximately 4 hours, gmail locks you out of IMAP completely, unless/until you force-kill Apple’s mail client. The problem is … if you force-kill the client, you lose all emails you wrote, and you lose all emails you […]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Please email me (adam at red-glasses.com) if you have skills / interest in the following: Mass market (i.e. everyone + their mom) telling stories javascript frameworks for complex visual 2D stuff (e.g. iGoogle, Netvibes, etc) Visual manipulation of large 2D images on mobile (especially iPhone) NB: we have no funding […]
Against my own advice, I submitted an eleventh hour proposal for the 2012 GDC. I’ve fallen in love with San Francisco, but I’m in two minds about going next year, it seems to have too much of E3 about it. The simple beauty of a conference for games people, about […]
On Facebook.com front page: “Dave Stone and Mike Merren recently read articles.” …so I click on one of them. Lo and behold, instead of getting an article, I get The Independent app trying to force me to install it. Force. Yes, force – there is no option to “view the […]
If you follow links in linkedin emails today, from an iPhone, you get kicked off the linkedin.com site, and every page redirects to: Https://touch.www.linkedin.com Even if you type in the front page URL directly, you are *not allowed* to visit the website. Classy.
(I’m prototyping a new game (working title: “ChessQuest”) – original post here) Major changes: Enemies have health, and can be killed by touching them Performance is another 30% faster (should be running OK on most phones now?) Enemies have a direction indicator (not necessary right now, but it’ll become important […]
http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/lwjgl16k/25093/view.html “the LWJGL16k competition starts right here, right now.” – Cas The rules First deadline: 25th November 2011 First task: get a black screen running using LWJGL “you’ve got 7 days. All I’m looking for at this stage from you is a blank window opening up and maybe a rotating […]
And repeat after me: “novice web developers should NOT override the Enter key on the keyboard” (autocomplete fails – when you hit enter to accept browser-autocomplete, the idiotic untested, badly-written javascript kicks in and deletes the form data)
UPDATE: So … it seems Suffusion has (buried deep inside the config) a way of displaying category pages with a higher-level workaround to the WP “missing feature”. Although so far I can’t find a way to set the settings on individual pages (which is what you generally need). So, I’ll […]
(I’m prototyping a new game (working title: “ChessQuest”) – original post here) Three major changes: You have a health bar, and can die The trackball is now supported for movement Performance is literally 1.5x – 2x faster Download link Chess Quest-0.3.3 So, a friend of mine tried it out today, […]
Someone just wrote this comment on one of my StackOverflow answers: Fundamentally, this question/answer pair is saying: “Apple: one of your non-programming managers made a stupid mistake in one of your core tools, one used every day by hundreds of thousands of people; since you won’t fix it, here’s a […]
(I’m prototyping a new game (working title: “ChessQuest”) – original post here) A couple more hours work, a few more changes: Overview of what’s changed Obvious from the screenshot: added alternating black/white background tiles. I want it to feel like the traditional chessboard has become the “floors” of the dungeons/towers […]
Last weekend, I was playing around with some ideas for a Chess / RPG mashup. I did some prototyping with Android (because iPhone apps can’t be shared, and Java is much faster to debug than ObjC). If you’ve got an Android phone, try this, and let me know if it […]
Steve Yegge’s Google Platforms Rant is not so much a rant as a sign of someone fighting an inappropriate culture. We saw stuff like this a lot at NCsoft when people were trying to turn around the $100 million clusterf*ck that created hundreds of redundancies all the way to director […]
Step 1 follow link Step 2 app demands your date of birth, for no reason (one day … Facebook will stop being so ridiculous about this, and give the user power, rather than the advertisers. One day…) Step 3 app fails to install (having taken your private data) Step 4: […]
Here’s a new term: The FAILtrepreneur FAILtrepreneur def: someone who tries to be an Entrepreneur, and takes advantage of lots of things intended to “help” them be a success, but somehow finds each “help” pushes them further and further into mediocrity and the failure of their business. Then they go […]
With Scrum, you’re constantly focussing on: How does the application look / work for the user *right now*? …to the extent that you care more about “does this feature work for the user?” than “is the code/art/architecture for this feature ideal?”. “It’s not done” … “but it looks done!” We […]
Tips to Help you Think About Sales at Your Startup We covered much ground. The video link is here and quick time-coded show notes at the end of the post in case you want to jump ahead to just one section. But the ground we covered was awesome for anybody […]
“Starting work without a contract is like a putting a condom on after finding out you got someone pregnant” For this and other great pieces of advice on life as a services company, trying to get paid, watch this great talk from Mike Monteiro: http://www.wikio.com/video/mike-monteiro-ck-pay-5196884