Thursday, December 29, 2005

ToDo

To get ready to publish to the SDL list I need to do the following:

1. Fix apps from pointer experiments.
2. Add loading resource messages to apps that load alot of resources
3. Add screenshots to sample apps on web site
4. Add homepage fixes
5. Add team web page

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Successful Demo

My personal blog has an entry about a demo I did for my programming class that went very well.

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Ajax Backlash

The ajax backlash has already started. More comment on slashdot.org.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Outage

I apologize for an outage of about 26 hours that ended this morning to both the website and the app server. I lost a switch.

Build 50 added support for resizing the window. Build 51 added support for transparent image backgrounds.

I expect to finish porting Bob Pendelton's demo game next week, and release a new version of NewI\O at that time.

It seems to me that I need to improve the process of loading resources. I need to specify a slot for a resource to go into, and then send a message back the has information about the resource in that slot, information that may be useful to the program on the server.

For example, when an image is loaded I can send back information to the program about attributes of that information, such as its size, etc. This would be a seperate message, so that ap running on the server would not have to wait for the response, unless it chose to do so.