Archive for April, 2006

NeXTSTEP Demo

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Presentation Zen just linked to a bunch of presentation related videos, including some classic Steve Jobs demos. I hadn’t seen the NeXTSTEP demo yet, so I had to check it out. It’s really interesting to see some of the features of the circa 1992 NeXTSTEP system because most of them now exist in MacOS X. […]

ICFAI University to reprint Developers’ Dilemma

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

In 2002 I wrote an article just to get into the Game Developers Conference that was published in a little online newsletter called Digital Times. Today I got a request from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India to reprint that article in an “Executive Reference Book” tentatively titled Online Gaming Industry. The ICFAI […]

Rails Widgets

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

Widgets = (Partials + Helpers) in their own directory
Ah yes, widgets. Assuming you’re familiar with Rails, these babies are a cross between helpers and partials. The idea is that they can encapsulate a piece of UI logic and template, sort of similar to the idea of components, only so much more lightweight.
Before widgets, you could […]