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As warfangle pointed out, I'm not working on Diggy anymore. Reason being: I'm working on a canvas JS engine now! :D Might have something ready for other developers in a few weeks ...

Thanks, I'll let Josh know! BTW it might interest you that he put his music up for sale! http://joshuamorse.bandcamp.com/album/bombada-original-sound...

He's great, I'm a big fan of his.

Nope :( I couldn't get Titanium Mobile to push to either my iPhone or my Android (and can't afford the $200/month support). Bummer, maybe someday.

Fixed, thanks for pointing that out!

My bad, I probably won't have audio at all (initially) next time, but I'll definitely mention it either way. Thanks for the tip!

Also: Puzzle Quest 2 is out now! I've been playing it on DS :)

Yeah that's the primary reason I open sourced it, so that if others find it useful they can fork and go nuts.

The auto-playing music is the JavaScript game itself, embedded in an iframe, sorry :(

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I've been a professional developer for more than five years now, and I've only worked with about THREE female developers. Three out of probably more than 100. It's notable, get over it.

Fuck monkeys, make me a glowing cat! I'd buy that.

I'm sure some people might dismiss the list immediately because they're not game developers. But keep in mind that many of these points could be used seamlessly for apps (Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo!, etc etc) or even your own website. Good stuff!

Yup, that's why they were looking at buying Yahoo! for a while there. The thing is, they do everything. And when you do everything, you can't do all of it well. They have too many eggs in too many baskets (for example, why did they compete in the mp3 player space with Zune?).

They do some things really well (Xbox Live is amazing, for example) but yeah they fail hard at the web.

Browsers are nowadays pretty much regarded more as application platforms than as web page viewers (see any social networking site and its "apps" section). Still, those are mostly server-side applications; cross-browser compatibility alone makes game programming in JavaScript nightmarish.

I have to agree, though it hurts me to say that because I make JavaScript games (http://scriptnode.com/lab/spacius/).

There is currently no "A-grade" way of providing audio using only JavaScript. The best fallback is flash, unfortunately.

And probably the best flash->JS library: http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/

> Making something more complicated does not make it better.

I think the confusion here is that strong OOP is actually simpler. Breaking code into smaller chunks (such as objects) makes it more modular and easier to understand. That's the point.

I signed up :) Good luck!

I wrote about this too: http://scriptnode.com/article/the-last-in-a-loop-bug/

I like your reasoning for moving "var" further down where it's used in a function.

No: http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9221

You mean http://foos-hack.com/? That's true for both us.

My thoughts:

- First thing I noticed is when I clicked "View All" in FF3 in Windows, the menu was WAY over to the right (kinda broken). - Also your URLs are really ugly. This: https://www.dawdle.com/search.php/1/1/Video_Games=1/Systems=... just looks awful. Pretty URLs are important. - I'd guess you'll eventually run into legal issues with the "Buy It Now" links and using Nintendo's Seal of Quality as your "No Listing Fees!" image... - Oh and the server died once when I was browsing :(

The correct answer is XKCD.

Well, to test in Internet Explorer of course! I'm a front-end engineer for Yahoo!, and unfortunately a stupidly high number of our users are IE users. There are options on other operating systems like Parallels and WINE, but nothing gets the job done like the real thing.

It's often less awesome than it sounds: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/460987802/

I prefer: http://opensourcecms.com/

Um. I didn't see foosball tables there. Sorry, can't work with you.

This sounds great and I've got a ride etc etc but DAMN that's early. Think I'm not going just because it's insanely early. Seriously guys, wtf.

It totally matters. Just ask any Mac or Linux diehard. Personally, I use all three of the primary operating systems: Windows XP, Mac OSX and Linux (Ubuntu in this case). I have separate uses for each and can't imagine getting rid of any of them.

I find pricing mechanisms fascinating. I'm at An Event Apart right now, which (with a price tag of $949 for two days) CLEARLY uses the Prestige Pricing strategy. Interesting stuff!

Dude, you're a geek and you married a non-techie? I'm sorry :(

I work at Yahoo! and... no, it's not. It's objectively slower and the results are subjectively not as accurate.

This author sounds like he barely knows CSS. Most of his points are completely invalid. Bigtime fail.