groovecoder

MDN is a wiki! There's a django backend which also uses a node.js web service for wiki templating features.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Project:MDN/Kuma

MDN dev here. Page-load time is one of our immediate next goals. Tons of traffic to our document view and lots of potential back-end processing on each doc kinda sucks. But, we're using New Relic now and hoping to tackle things iteratively as we go.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Project:MDN/Plans_a...

Seems like a typical "pasture-source" play - when something gets too hard to maintain, put it in the open-source pasture to let it live or die however it might.

Ditto the answers that say prioritize. Since having my two girls (3 and 1.5) my hobbies and projects have dropped to just a couple, and I want to change one of them.

I also find waking early and going to bed later helps - you can get more done while everyone else is asleep. Exercising early in the morning helps me sleep more soundly at night too so I really only need 5 or 6 hours.

Yeah if you have a toddler, 3 companies, and have lost 30 lbs, I'd love to know what time-management system you do use.

I also work for Mozilla, on the MDN website. If you want you can always upload a copy of your game to the MDN demo studio too:

https://developer.mozilla.org/demos/

Of course, if/when there is a SO-penalizing bug in Stack Overflow or Google code, no-one will be able to fix it since they can't Google for Stack Overflow answers! ;)

Another side of the story: http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2012/10/04/us-fleet-tracki...

Curious - why does the geek in you hate the web dev stack?

This demo is really for HTML5, not for BrowserID. BrowserID might add an unrefined and unnecessary hurdle to the game. Then all the other platform dev's and press will say silly things like HTML5 requires BrowserID or something.

That's an interesting argument against HTML5 apps. If I really want to copy your Flash app, I'll just start at https://www.google.com/search?q=flash+decompilers

I could see using BrowserID for auth to save some kind of leaderboard on the server-side or something.

I'd like to know - on what non-advertising models is Facebook working?

I'll attest to this. When I worked for SourceForge.net we removed tons of ads only AFTER a/b testing showed that fewer more prominent (i.e., "engaging") ads increase click-thru and revenue.

This is an important project. Apple, Google, and Amazon are putting up walls between developers, users, and their applications.

E.g., why should I have to buy Plants vs. Zombies 3 time - Steam on my desktop, App Store on my iPhone, and Xbox Live on my Xbox? An open app ecosystem would let me buy the game once directly from PopCap, or thru an open app store, and play the game on any web-connected device.