I promised a post on my views of the “Lean Religion”, as I refer to it. Here it is. Don’t get me wrong; I agree with the intent, just not with the execution. The Origin IMVU built a religion to market their product and the Cult of Lean did the footwork. The question is; how [...]
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Today I went to a job interview.
I went to a job interview today. Admittedly, I went in knowing little about the company beforehand. But with the intent of getting a feel for their workplace and to see if it is somewhere I might actually enjoy working. I didn’t expect much, but I gave it a go anyway. As I sat by [...]
Games don’t need to be social
Social games have been a big trend in recent years. Zynga struck it big and now everyone else is trying to emulate them. Unfortunately, the first thing that pops into anyones head when a Zynga game is mentioned is Facebook. Facebook is the platform upon which their success stories like FarmVille were built, but it’s [...]
How to make Socket.IO work behind nginx (mostly)
Most web hosts with node.js support host it behind an nginx proxy. Sadly, Socket.IO doesn’t work at all behind nginx without a bit of hacking.
An eventful week…
It’s been an interesting week so far. I had a job interview at Yammer in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, so I was to fly out from Kelowna on Monday.
Let’s chat about node.js
Last night I had the pleasure of presenting on node.js at the November OKDG meet. It was a lot of fun, and there seemed to be quite a bit of interest in the technology. Well, now I’ve got the slideshow available in PDF form for all to see. 
Not only that, the chat demo created in the presentation will remain live for all to play with. In addition to what was covered in the presentation, it also has a basic message filtering system to convert URLs to embedded content. Try posting a URL to an image, Youtube video or PDF and you can see it in action. Check it out!
The Infinite Genies Paradox
There’s not many people out there who haven’t heard the story of Aladdin–it’s a story with quite a bit of history and has got recognition in many forms, including a cartoon rendition created by Disney. It’s a creative and interesting story, but it’s also quite flawed and most people don’t even notice that.
Back online! ….mostly…
UPDATE: Everything works now. So I decided to switch from Slicehost to Rackspace Cloud, since my server was overloaded and having all sorts of network issues. Unfortunately things kind of exploded. I managed to get the site back online, but the URL rewriting isn’t working at the moment and I’m at work right now, so [...]
jquery.flash is on github! (and updated)
I’ve recently starting committing changes made to jquery-flash to github. You can view the project page for it here. I’ve also made a few updates, the most notable being; I moved the checking code to seperate functions called isie(), hasflash() and flashversion(). All of which can be used anywhere, with or without using $().flash(). I [...]
Talker – Waves? Campfires? I just want to talk!
I, among many, jumped on the Google Wave Dev Preview bandwagon. The video demonstrations they had were so nice and polished looking, but after getting the chance to try it first hand it’s polished sheen quickly faded–it was buggy to the point of being unusable and collaboration was so awkward. As a Wave expanded it [...]