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  8. <item><title>Four Corners</title><description>&lt;p&gt;It's somewhat comical to me, posting anything here since its been nearly three years since my last ... I doubt anyone visits this rusting pile of bytes anymore so I'd expect if you're reading this it's through RSS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At any rate - my good pal &lt;a href="http://sunmonkey.com"&gt;John&lt;/a&gt; and I have started an indie game concern called &lt;a href="http://scenicroutesoftware.com"&gt;Scenic Route Software&lt;/a&gt;, and we've recently released our first game, a &lt;a href="http://goo.gl/PCvRc"&gt;puzzler for iOS called Four Corners&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We both think the game is pretty fun - lots of subtle strategy and a difficulty curve that we tweaked over months and months of development. This is also my first &lt;em&gt;really big&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;complicated&lt;/em&gt; Objective-C project and did I ever learn a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Give the game a go, and let me know what you think of it. We're pretty active on our &lt;a href="http://facebook.com/ScenicRouteSoftware"&gt;Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; with game updates, tips &amp;amp; tricks, screen shots from upcoming releases, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'll leave you with this &lt;strong&gt;EPIC&lt;/strong&gt; trailer we put together for the game. Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/quK-jAVChg8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://slayeroffice.com/archives/?p=272</link></item><item><title>HTML5, the &lt;video&gt;</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slayeroffice.com/archives/?p=270"&gt;As mentioned previously&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/16284579"&gt;talk I gave on HTML5&lt;/a&gt; was captured as what the kids refer to as a "moving picture". Here, I have embedded it in this interweb page so that you might view it at your convenience. I sincerely hope the irony of an HTML5 video being presented via Flash is not lost on you.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/16284579" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And with that, I have now made &lt;em&gt;twice&lt;/em&gt; as many posts in 2010 as I did in 2009. That's right ... &lt;em&gt;four&lt;/em&gt;. Can you handle this, internet!?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://slayeroffice.com/archives/?p=271</link></item><item><title>An Introduction to HTML5</title><description>&lt;p&gt;As promised, &lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sgchipman/an-introduction-to-html5-5518668"&gt;the slides&lt;/a&gt; from my HTML5 talk. There is video as well, but it requires editing. I'll put it up &lt;abbr title="As soon as possible"&gt;ASAP&lt;/abbr&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://slayeroffice.com/archives/?p=270</link></item><item><title>Mouse Patterns: Canvas Version</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I'm putting together a rather lengthy talk on HTML5 for &lt;a href="http://www.aol.com"&gt;work&lt;/a&gt; (I'll post the slides next week, and with any luck the audio too) and thought some examples might be a nice thing to have on hand, specifically for canvas since I assume that will be a popular topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I looked through some of the older stuff on the site (which is pretty much everything now), and decided it'd be cool to do the old &lt;a href="http://slayeroffice.com/code/mouse_patterns"&gt;mouse patterns&lt;/a&gt; experiment in canvas, and fancy it up a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;a href="http://slayeroffice.com/code/mouse_patterns/mp-canvas.html" title="Mouse Patterns: Canvas Version"&gt;I did&lt;/a&gt;. Avoid hallucinogens while playing with it. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://slayeroffice.com/archives/?p=269</link></item><item><title>Devnation Slides</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I just wrapped up my talk at &lt;a href="http://devnation.us/events/13"&gt;Devnation&lt;/a&gt; on Javascript &amp; AIR - I had a great time. Lots of great questions asked, and awesome discussion with folks afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://slayeroffice.com/articles/air-javascript"&gt;slides are here&lt;/a&gt;, and the notes that I mostly followed are &lt;a href="http://slayeroffice.com/articles/air-javascript/notes.txt"&gt;over here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://slayeroffice.com/archives/?p=268</link></item><item><title>The Challenge of Easy Integration</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The first in a series, I give you &lt;a href="http://slayeroffice.com/articles/st_challenge-of-easy-integration/"&gt;SocialThing for Websites, the Challenge of Easy Integration&lt;/a&gt;, a short article about how we kept the SocialThing's client integration to one line of code for the partner to paste in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Granted, this is the baseline implementation. If you want the client to use your authentication, or post stuff into feeds, there is a bit more work to do, though not much.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://slayeroffice.com/archives/?p=267</link></item><item><title>aimapi-core and SocialThing</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Oh hi, long time no speak. How's every little thing?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've spent the past few months working on the &lt;a href="http://socialthing.com/forwebsites"&gt;SocialThing for Websites&lt;/a&gt; client, which you can see in action on AOL's country music blog &lt;a href="http://www.theboot.com"&gt;The Boot&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/16/its-a-socialthing-aols-plan-to-take-on-facebook-connect-with-lifestreaming-and-chat/"&gt;Techcrunch&lt;/a&gt; didn't tear it apart, and the comments aren't as rabid as one might expect on an article about an AOL product, so I suppose it came out next-to-all-right.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The client itself was a lot of fun to work on, and there were a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of interesting technical hurdles that we had to hitch our pants way up and leap over which kept things awfully interesting. More on those later, though.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For now, I wanted to point you towards the backbone of the SocialThing client, &lt;a href="http://code.google.com/p/aimapi-core/"&gt;aimapi-core.js&lt;/a&gt;, now hosted on Google Code. This is a pared down, bare bones, just-what-you-need-and-nothing-else version of the original Web AIM Javascript API that AOL released back in &lt;a href="http://slayeroffice.com/archives/?p=199"&gt;November of 2006&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, you ask - besides dropping all the UI stuff that you weren't particularly interested in the first release, what's so great about aimapi-core? Well...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; Its only 44k (with white space and comments). The original is 80k and does less.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; More transactions (some of which didn't exist in 2006):&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;addBuddy and removeBuddy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;getStatus and setStatus&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;getBuddyFeed (AIM's lifestream - see &lt;a href="http://buddyupdates.aim.com/"&gt;buddyupdates.aim.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;pushFeed - a means of pushing content into a user's buddyfeed/lifestream&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;reportSpim&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;and more!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alternate means of listening for events. The original codebase used long polling via script nodes. Unfortunately this meant rapid polling in Firefox because of a bug in that browser that prevents more than one script from downloading at once. This rapid polling was both memory intensive and had the status bar constantly letting you know that it was "Waiting for 12.345.79.80..." which kinda sucked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So how was this resolved?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;If AIM.params.useSWFListener is true, the API uses &lt;a href="http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/"&gt;swfobject&lt;/a&gt; to pull in swfsocket.swf which uses AS3's socket API to listen for host events (IMs, presence updates, etc). Many thanks to my pal Rick Gardner for writing this piece.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If swfsocket fails to initialize, the API falls back to scriptiframe.js, a clever work around that &lt;a href="http://tagneto.blogspot.com/"&gt;James Burke&lt;/a&gt; came up with that uses an iframe to long poll for events.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;And if all that fails, it goes back to using dynamic script nodes to listen for host events.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;And more! (...that I still need to write documentation for!)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;So give it a look, and let me know what you think.  Oh, and for those wondering - no, the SocialThing client is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a frame a' la the diggbar. Come on, give me a little credit.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://slayeroffice.com/archives/?p=266</link></item><item><title>Does it .match?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I've been doing some work in &lt;abbr title="Action Script 3"&gt;AS3&lt;/abbr&gt; of late and stumbled onto a bit of a gotcha last week that I thought I'd share since it caused me about 15 minutes of frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The gotcha pertains to a significant difference in how Javascript and AS3 handle the match method of the String object when the global flag is passed. Consider the following Javascript snippet:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;var r = /[a-z]/g&lt;br /&gt;var s = "abc";&lt;br /&gt;var x = s.match(r);&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This will return an Array with values "a,b,c" in both Javascript and in its AS3 equivalent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, consider this code, replacing the value of &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt; with something that &lt;em&gt;will not&lt;/em&gt; match:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;code&gt;var r = /[a-z]/g&lt;br /&gt;var s = "123";&lt;br /&gt;var x = s.match(r);&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Javascript, this will return &lt;code&gt;null&lt;/code&gt;, but AS3 will return a &lt;strong&gt;zero length Array&lt;/strong&gt;. Which means that this...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;if(s.match(r)) {&lt;br /&gt; // do stuff...&lt;br /&gt;}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;..would always be true in AS3, but false in Javascript. I spent about 10 minutes thinking there was something wrong with my regular expression, and another five thinking there was something wrong with AS3's regexp engine before I realized what was happening.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So who has it right? According to the &lt;a href="http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-262.pdf"&gt;ECMA 262&lt;/a&gt; spec, AS3 does (see page 101-102). Of course, &lt;a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Objects:String:match"&gt;Mozilla's documentation&lt;/a&gt; claims that it will return an Array as well with no mention of &lt;code&gt;null&lt;/code&gt; on that page, while &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7df7sf4x(VS.85).aspx"&gt;Microsoft's JScript&lt;/a&gt; documentation admits it will return &lt;code&gt;null&lt;/code&gt; if no match is found.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good times.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://slayeroffice.com/archives/?p=265</link></item><item><title>Emre Grayson Chipman</title><description>&lt;p&gt;My son, born this evening weighing in at 9.33 pounds, measuring 20 inches.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/sgchipman/2329674381/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2143/2329674381_0141e77680_m.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  9. &lt;p&gt;(And that's why I wasn't in Austin this year!)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://slayeroffice.com/archives/?p=264</link></item><item><title>SXSW Time!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;And I'm not gonna be there this year. I know, I know - I should have told you sooner. You're probably already in Austin or in flight, now wishing you had advance notice of this turn of events so you could have just stayed home. I'm sorry, I really am. This really was terribly inconsiderate of me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Soldier on, brave geeks, and know that with enough Shiner Bock, anything can be fun even if I'm not there. Be strong. And take lots of pictures. And twitter a lot. Let me experience Austin through your internets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Any day now I'll have an announcement of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; I'm not there this year...)&lt;/p&gt;
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