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clyfeon Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

In cygwin, the mintty terminal has great looks (ansi colors and pretty smooth font).

http://code.google.com/p/mintty/

clyfeon The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A has been published

Note that the post was edited in the mean time. Sadly no history a la stackoverflow.com .

5 upvotes.

Note that value is a time function, if you invest now, soon it will be worthing a lot more votes. I estimate 2 upvotes / 10 minutes.

(Too many words for my taste. If you put that many words in such a simple idea, make sure to hook me up in the first phrase and don't let me go until the end.)

clyfeon List of JavaScript Game Engines

Is it able to do isometric view and pathfinding ?

clyfeon What should an "ambitious non-technologist" do with a promising Start-up idea?

Learn to program. Is easy.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

clyfeon List of JavaScript Game Engines

Hehe, that's my post too! I was trying to make people to contribute info!

clyfeon List of JavaScript Game Engines

My list (no reddit account so I'll post here)

https://gist.github.com/749734

clyfeon The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A has been published

And the affiliate marketing:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2109543

clyfeon Clojurejs - A naive Clojure to javascript translator

List of languages that compile to JS:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

clyfeon JRuby 1.6.0.RC1 Released

Access the many Java libraries available, it's the only Ruby interpretor with true threading (no GIL), integrates in the Java server ecosystem ( say with servlets via java-rack etc), upstream IT management approval (it's enterprise).

clyfeon JRuby 1.6.0.RC1 Released

It's speedy. It's empowering. But it's (stil?) a memory hog. My personal issue with it is the memory consumption. Other than that it's an amazing project.

clyfeon The Python Paradox

Example:

http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#basic-custom...

vs

http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus8/html/page595.html

clyfeon What is the best place to host and learn node.js?

For the learning part:

VM booklet in progress https://github.com/visionmedia/masteringnode

Dailyjs.com series http://dailyjs.com/2011/01/03/node-tutorial-8/

clyfeon Real-time Snowball Fights on a Canvas in Node.js (see comment)

Mario Gonzalez wrote in with a game his team have built using Node and WebSockets: Ogilvy & Mather Holiday Snowball Fight. It’s a multiplayer game that uses a lot of interesting libraries, like CAAT and BiSON. The developers even say they based the multiplayer design on Valve’s Source Multiplayer Networking papers.

>>> The game-engine, collision and logic run on the server in JavaScript running on Node.js. The clients are simply rendering information sent from the server, and sending off keyboard input.

Source: http://dailyjs.com/2011/01/05/node-roundup/

clyfeon List of languages that compile to JS

Feel free to contribute, it's a wiki!

clyfeon Fact and folklore in software engineering

Indeed, French is a fluid language if I may label it as such. (note of knowledge: the text is a translation from French)

clyfeon CSS editor built with Cappuccino

SASS (Compass), Less support (via .js variants ?)

clyfeon How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming

sicp http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

htdp (this thread)

plai http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/

eopl http://www.cs.indiana.edu/eopl/

Also,

htdw http://world.cs.brown.edu/1/

clyfeon Ask HN: Best Second Language after Python

I am a Ruby convert coming from Python, perhaps if you learn Ruby you'll come the same path. You also might enjoy CoffeeScript since it borrows some aspects from python (indenting).

Beyond that c (for when you must go to the bottom of things) and JavaScript (the web language).

clyfeon Ask HN: Favorite Languages And Frameworks And Why

I do webdev.

Ruby192 Rails3

CoffeeScript Backbone.js jQuery qUnit Underscore.js

I'd like to do MMO games in js, i'll use Node.js server side maybe with ZeroMQ, and client side it's still a eyes-wide-open https://gist.github.com/749734 , all via CoffeeScript.

clyfeon Ask HN: Scala technology stack?

The only reason I would do web-dev in Scala wold be LiftWeb aka speedy comet-style apps, that is it's strongest point, otherwise I'd choose rails/django/whatever.

As each language seems to have a Sinatra clone, Scala's is Scalatra - for when you want to do something easy and elegantly-ish or something small as in "do this logic in a elegant fashion but don't hurt my brain". If you're stuck in Scala and LiftWeb is too much, choose the Scalatra's easy route.

clyfeon CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN

I want to build one too. Any chance the repo's receive meaningful README's ?

clyfeon What happens when you steal a hacker's computer

hilareous

clyfeon Impact HTML5 Game Engine released

I watch (follow) three.js on github for a while and I see frequent activity (commits, pull requests) on the project. Compared to most of the other (2d, simple stuff) frameworks this one is a full blown 3D engine albeit it does only rendering (no collision detection etc).

clyfeon Impact HTML5 Game Engine released

The grand list of similar (free) projects:

http://easeljs.com/

https://github.com/biilly/doodle-js

https://github.com/fairfieldt/xcjs

https://github.com/batiste/sprite.js

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js

https://github.com/ysimonson/canvas.js

https://github.com/davebalmer/jo

https://github.com/lostdecade/diggy

http://gamejs.org/

http://www.aframejs.com/