Here's a small demo on how I've been using Chrome's "live editing" features to speed up my development workflow. Chrome let's you modify currently loaded files on the fly - so you can tweak settings and test code in real time.
Don't forget to keep an eye on the development of my up-and-coming waterski odyssey: WaterSki or Die! (coming to a phone near you soon, with programmer art removed).
Maze generation has never been easier:
Math.random() < 0.5 ? "/" : "\\";and you've got yourself a maze! Like all awesome ideas this one comes directly from the Commodore 64.
Maybe you've heard that there's a new kid on the short-message scene: App.Net. It's just like Twitter, except you have to pay $50 a year to use it. Sure, that'll keep the poor people away - but what else do you get for the fee? How's this for an incentive: no longer are you limited to the measly 140-character messages tyrannically enforced by Twitter!
You get 256 characters.
For the people who don't need to save their $50 for food and rent and medicine and stuff that's a big 116 extra characters to flaunt! Accordingly, I've created an app to periodically fetch and highlight these extra characters - so the regular folk can see what they're missing out on. I call it...
As many of you may know from my complaining, I've currently embarked on a new writing mission: a CoffeeScript book for SitePoint. The example project that runs throughout is an HTML5 game using Canvas. While I was trying to create a random colour palette - for instructional purposes - I fell over this "trick" of using HSL rather than RGB to pick more pleasant-ish colours.
Caine's Arcade is the coolest arcade ever (even better than Flynn's Arcade and Bailey's Arcade. The "pros" of Caine's Arcade are that all the games are hand-built by a 9 year old, out of cardboard. But the "cons" are the prices: $1 gets you 4 plays, and $2 gets you a "Fun Pass" (tm) valid for 500 plays.
2 bucks! Phew... You might be thinking you could get around that by making a fake pass of your own - but Caine is way ahead of you. He's added a security check to each Fun Pass, to validate that it's the real deal:
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