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I think having "bluesky" as an official state of a bug (rather than just using some random tag metadata for it) is just a lovely idea. (Also: hot pink ftw!) - Daniel Sandler

(archived for posterity) - Daniel Sandler

»Peer Droid is the porting of JXME protocol to Android Platform. It allows the Android Developers to create application for Android platform that uses the features of JXTA system along with Android potential, interacting with other mobile terminals and other traditional peers (Personal-Computer). - Daniel Sandler

»The aim of cloak is to provide a simple framework that anyone can use to create games. You may not able to develop a Quake or Grand Theft Auto clone however you will be able to quickly code that retro arcade game you fell in love with as a child. - Daniel Sandler

»Rokon is an open source OpenGL 2D game engine for Android mobile devices. It aims to be both incredibly easy to use and flexible. The dream is get many more decent games made for Android mobile devices by giving creatives with limited programming knowledge the tools to produce a high quality hardware accelerated game. - Daniel Sandler

»A video game framework for rapid game prototyping. Partly modeled after Britt Hannah's article Object-Oriented Game Design. Slowly building toward a strong sprite sheet component and eventually a 2D tile engine component. - Daniel Sandler

Mark Murphy's Android ebooks. - Daniel Sandler

»I suspect, having done a small amount of TDD myself, that this is actually a pattern that arises when a programmer tries to apply TDD to a problem they just don’t know how to solve. If I was a high-priced consultant/trainer like Jeffries, I’d probably give this pattern a pithy name like “Going in Circles Means You Don’t Know What You’re Doing”. Because he had no idea how to tackle the real problem, the only kinds of tests he could think of were either the very high-level “the program works” kind which were obviously too much of a leap or low-level tests of nitty-gritty code that is necessary but not at all sufficient for a working solver. - Daniel Sandler

Another flixel/Adam/Danny production. - Daniel Sandler

Original flash (+flixel) version. - Daniel Sandler

Flash pixelgame framework (forthcoming) - Daniel Sandler

Full text. Copyright violation for fun and (lack of) profit! - Daniel Sandler

Nuclear weapons. Kubrick. Game theory. The end of the world. This article has it all. - Daniel Sandler

»Eventlet is a networking library written in Python. It achieves high scalability by using non-blocking io while at the same time retaining high programmer usability by using coroutines to make the non-blocking io operations appear blocking at the source code level. - Daniel Sandler

»AddressBookSync is a free Mac OS X application to download profile pictures and other Facebook data to Address Book cards. This is a handy tool to keep your contacts' pictures updated if you have numerous Facebook friends in your Mac OS X Address Book. […] AddressBookSync does not and will not support the synchronization of phone numbers or email addresses as Facebook does not allow this by their Terms of Service. - Daniel Sandler

Awesome video review of TapeDeck.app by Scooter from MacintoshTipz. - Daniel Sandler

"Ugh. Ruby." - Daniel Sandler

»Linux vs Windows/MacOS, all over again. You gain Freedom by using an open platform, making life worse for yourself in a thousand tiny ways, any one of which can easily be dismissed, so they are. But it’s still worse. - Daniel Sandler

»Drawing Words & Writing Pictures is a textbook containing a systematic course that teaches the alchemical art of combining words and pictures to make comics. In it, authors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden have laid out a complete, structured syllabus that guides students from creating narrative in a single drawing to orchestrating all the skills involved in creating a multi-page, complex story. - Daniel Sandler

This made me happy. - Daniel Sandler

"Xanadu ain't free, you know!" - Daniel Sandler

"> There aren't many things you can do to securely DRM text. Are you kidding me? Of course you can! All you have to do is create an entirely new generation of devices that will "play" only "authorized" text content (viz., encrypted and signed by a Big Key In The Sky). Of course, you'll need special (expensive, natch) cables, plus crypto handshakes up and down the stack—from the network and storage medium all the way up to your computer screen or ebook reader or mobile phone. If you connect an unauthorized monitor or printer to said playback device (read: one that is missing the decryption magic and whose manufacturer probably didn't cough up cash to the giant standards cabal), the whole thing shuts down in a flash, probably also melting your carpet. Of course, since existing devices work perfectly well for this purpose and are *not* DRM-encumbered, we'll need to come up with some way to trick people into throwing those old (money-losing) devices out and buy new (money-grubbing)..." - Daniel Sandler

"Actually, it's a highly flexible _n_-tiered trash can. They just drew 3 tiers as a simple example of how this middleware connects the backend fulfillment systems to the presentation layer." - Daniel Sandler

"Joyful. My favorite in quite some time." - Daniel Sandler

»This is an emergency guide to iPhone software development, i.e. a guide for competent developers who haven’t written code for the iPhone platform before, and just want to get started right now. - Daniel Sandler

"They can still bring legal action against you, halting the release of your game and costing you tens of thousands of dollars. If you're hoping for this little side project to take off and become your day job, a protracted trademark dispute (irrespective of its legal merit) is about the worst way I can think of to get things started. Why not steer way, _way_ clear of trouble rather than skirting it?" - Daniel Sandler

"> System 7 took about 10 minutes to boot That surprises me. I used to run 7.0 on an 8 MHz 68000 (a Mac Classic) and it would boot in a minute or two, tops. Clean out your INITs/CDEVs!" - Daniel Sandler

"The Lombard/Pismo's a classic in its own way, though. Curvy, rubbery…Apple hasn't made a Mac that sexy since. (Sorry, I don't think the unibody Macs are sexy. They're beautiful, don't get me wrong, but so…cold.)" - Daniel Sandler

"I LOLd. My own 1400cs is a lovely bookend at the moment. I tried putting MkLinux on it waaaay back, but never got anywhere, IIRC, due to hardware support issues with: * the keyboard (ADB yet not ADB somehow) * the CD-ROM (kinda important for installing Linux) * the PCMCIA Ethernet Before that I tried linux-m68k on my PowerBook 520c, with similar results. I'd love to be able to fire those computers up again, but using them as a ZTerm serial console seems pretty lame…" - Daniel Sandler

Conclusion = Star Trek: The Motion Picture is awesome. End of fucking story. - Daniel Sandler