Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
You may recall an earlier post about TankWar, my 100% JavaScript cannons-game. Back when I wrote it, I included online play, but the server went down with a hard disk failure.
Now, I have rewritten the online mode - this time that part is also all JavaScript - continue reading to ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
So I got a Google Wave developer sandbox account. If you don't know what Google Wave is, you've probably been living under a rock, and you should go check out the aforementioned link. It has a nifty video demonstrating various parts of it.
I've had time to play with it for ...
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Today I'll share a fun story with you. Would you like to get free publicity? Go ahead and make a poor friendly URL implementation, like the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation, or YLE - the national broadcasting company of Finland - did.
YLE had a very naive friendly URL algorithm on their web ...
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Mobile phones of today can handle big sites fine. They can handle JavaScript quite well too. Then why is it that I constantly encounter crappy mobile versions of sites? What is it that makes these sites so bad, even though they were obviously designed with small screens in mind?
While making ...
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
Lately I've had the chance to use an iPhone 3G. As I've been considering purchasing the new 3G S, this has been a good opportunity to see if I like the thing, but what I think of the phone itself is a matter of another post - Today, let's look ...
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Firstly I'd just like to let you know that the lack of posts lately is because I have a new full time job which I'm enjoying quite much so far, but it still means I have less time / motivation to write stuff. The unit testing series and other postings ...
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Back in late 2006 I wrote my most ambitious JavaScript/game project so far: TankWar Online, which as you may guess from the name was about tanks, shooting stuff, and it had a real-time online game mode - as far as I know, the first such ever in a JS based ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
I've been using Twitter for a while now. You can find me here.
But what about Twitter? What's it useful for? How to cope with the constant stream of mostly unimportant updates from the ton of people you follow?
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Those who are following me on Twitter probably already saw this, but this deserves a post here as well:
The first alpha release of Opera 10 is out.
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Someone on ##opera in freenode was asking how to recover their saved password from Wand, Opera's password manager.
While there is apparently no "official" way of getting to them, I thought that maybe you could simply hook into the form, and read the password when it's being submitted by Wand!
Easy enough, ...
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