nice widget
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Monday, May 21, 2007
Top Adventure Games
Seems about right to me:
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/781/781665p2.html
Grim Fandango has done the best job I've seen of making a game in a world you want to explore. ah the power of SCUMM: http://www.scummvm.org/
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/781/781665p2.html
Grim Fandango has done the best job I've seen of making a game in a world you want to explore. ah the power of SCUMM: http://www.scummvm.org/
Saturday, May 12, 2007
the new bag
Well, after over 7 years at Nickelodeon Online, I've decided to move on to a new position I'm quite buzzed about - CTO at World Wide Biggies. The company is headed up by Albie Hecht, former President of Nickelodeon, and is focused on building gameToons, a hybrid between cartoon episodes and gaming. I guess I'd like to think I'm going to put the 'game' in gameToons.
There will be time for reflections on Nickelodeon Online, but for now I'll just say that there are some truly great people doing fine, fun work for kids in atmosphere that is not always easy to work in, and that the work I've done there I'm very proud of.
Right now though I'm focused on getting some core systems running, and if anyone would care to comment on choices or alternatives I'm all ears.
So we have an account up with Rackspace, for e-mail, blackberry, DNS management, website hosting and one secure, stable development machine (subversion and wiki). As we're short on technical folks (much more on that later) I need to outsource this functionality wherever possible, I frankly don't want to burn one minute doing sysadmin tasks unless absolutely necessary. I still don't see a lot of viable choices for calendar syncing outside of Exchange with the possible exception of Zimbra, and as we're in bootstrap mode I wanted to start with a known (if strongly disliked) entity.
We're up on Basecamp as well, very excited to see Highrise and people starting to develop custom APIs for same. This is just more functionality we don't need to manage in-house. The OS X widget for basecamp is cool.
Ah, and I'm moving as well, checking out of Columbia subsidized housing and into a reasonable deal (for new york anyhow) on a fine apartment down in South Harlem/Central Park North.
Sort of 52 card pickup for my life at this point but hey, it's time for a change.
There will be time for reflections on Nickelodeon Online, but for now I'll just say that there are some truly great people doing fine, fun work for kids in atmosphere that is not always easy to work in, and that the work I've done there I'm very proud of.
Right now though I'm focused on getting some core systems running, and if anyone would care to comment on choices or alternatives I'm all ears.
So we have an account up with Rackspace, for e-mail, blackberry, DNS management, website hosting and one secure, stable development machine (subversion and wiki). As we're short on technical folks (much more on that later) I need to outsource this functionality wherever possible, I frankly don't want to burn one minute doing sysadmin tasks unless absolutely necessary. I still don't see a lot of viable choices for calendar syncing outside of Exchange with the possible exception of Zimbra, and as we're in bootstrap mode I wanted to start with a known (if strongly disliked) entity.
We're up on Basecamp as well, very excited to see Highrise and people starting to develop custom APIs for same. This is just more functionality we don't need to manage in-house. The OS X widget for basecamp is cool.
Ah, and I'm moving as well, checking out of Columbia subsidized housing and into a reasonable deal (for new york anyhow) on a fine apartment down in South Harlem/Central Park North.
Sort of 52 card pickup for my life at this point but hey, it's time for a change.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Well prepared
There are a lot of things I'm working on right now - really catching up with the web XX stuff is top of the heap but there are other projects I'll comment on as well. I've decided I want to become a phlexpert, meaning, a PHP-FLEX-EXPERT, as far as I can tell I'm the first to coin that meaning of the term, so let me apologize in advance before it replicates ; )
So there is a big tree of knowledge to consider here, PHP, Flex and Expert. Lets start with PHP. So I've finally gotten around to working on this language after being trapped in middle management for many years. It's really good to look at PHP and see the perl roots, the flexibility, the great text and data handling tools, all things that are missing in JTHML, ATG Dynamo's sad client-side language that has kept me feeling crippled for the last while. I have a lot of work to do in PHP, but the community is outstanding so I'm able to answer questions and try things out quickly.
Flex is very approachable and is the most powerful client-side development change I've seen since plug-ins in the browser circa 1995. It suggests an approach for managing client applications as consumers of data services, with a state management engine that clarifies application development. Sorry about the buzz-words (I'll be saying that again) but it's the only way yo say it. What it means is that there is now a good tool for doing the kinds of applications we've been doing at nick.com for a long time. We need this.
Expert means being able to answer hard questions, understanding best practices, and develop ing solutions that are better than what came before. In this case I'm particularly interested in how PHP and Flex can be used together.
So there is a big tree of knowledge to consider here, PHP, Flex and Expert. Lets start with PHP. So I've finally gotten around to working on this language after being trapped in middle management for many years. It's really good to look at PHP and see the perl roots, the flexibility, the great text and data handling tools, all things that are missing in JTHML, ATG Dynamo's sad client-side language that has kept me feeling crippled for the last while. I have a lot of work to do in PHP, but the community is outstanding so I'm able to answer questions and try things out quickly.
Flex is very approachable and is the most powerful client-side development change I've seen since plug-ins in the browser circa 1995. It suggests an approach for managing client applications as consumers of data services, with a state management engine that clarifies application development. Sorry about the buzz-words (I'll be saying that again) but it's the only way yo say it. What it means is that there is now a good tool for doing the kinds of applications we've been doing at nick.com for a long time. We need this.
Expert means being able to answer hard questions, understanding best practices, and develop ing solutions that are better than what came before. In this case I'm particularly interested in how PHP and Flex can be used together.
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