I don't know how Joomla has evolved since I last used it several years ago (just after the introduction of joomla 1.5), but its flaws were blockers for me.
It had almost no extensibility (new features had to be written almost like external applications, integrability with the core of the cms was minimal), no adaptability (you couldn't add a field to a content form without modifying half a dozen files, and there were no way to have different content types. Also you couldn't change the site structure: you had to hav all your content under a 2-levels hierarchy of sections and category), and no inter-operability between extensions (an extension like jacl, which brought almost-decent acl capabilities to joomla, was unable to work with community manager, a widely used extension that implemented the concept of use groups).
And it used an MVC object structure that looked like the software architect had no idea of the goal of an mvc structure, but had read in a blog that mvc is good.
it's easy to find and hire people who are familiar with it.
who *think they* are familiar with it.
Drupal looks easy to extend for a beginner developper because, like php, you don't have to do something right to have it work. So it's really quick to have a mess of a codebase that leads to an unstable site that's a nightmare to maintain.
But if you really know the insides of it, you can craft a something beautiful that runs smoothly and is easy to work with. It's not perfect, and "real" coders will look at its non-use of OOP with contempt, but it's pretty good at what it can do.
And, let's be honest for a second: it's one of the least horrible open source CMSs out there (at least in the php world, I don't really know about Java or python or other CMSs). If you want a good pphp cms, you have Drupal or Ezpublish. There's wordpress that wants to be a cms but isn't quite there, Joomla is a joke, Typo3 is from another time... The perfect software doesn't exist.
A few years ago is not now. Try writing a game running in html5 canvas.
I wrote one a few months ago for the github game-off: https://github.com/RonanL/game-off-2012 It's faster in chrome/chromium, but it's playable in firefox and opera.
I've written several tests to optimize canvas rendering. I found that chrome benefits a lot more from pre-rendering in an hidden canvas, while firefox doesn't benefit from it at all. Opera is about twice as fast as firefox for pure canvas rendering, and a little faster than chrome.
Keep in mind, I only test rendering a small (12x12px) image, and a game is a lot more than that: pure js performance is very important and not tested here at all.
Here are my test results right now (on linux, with several tabs open in chrome but only one in opera): Chrome 24: Draw 100k sprites: 0.551s Draw 100k sprites in a buffer: 0.370s Draw 100k sprites with a rotation: 2.193s Draw 100k sprites with a rotation in a buffer: 2.145s Draw rotate a sprite in a buffer, the draw it 100k times in another buffer: 0.427s
Opera's javascript engine was pretty fast a few years ago, before chrome existed. It was way faster than firefox's, ie's or safari's.
Then chrome arrived and, although opera's engine has evolved a lot and is faster than ever, it never managed to reclaim its first place, even letting firefox claim the second place in the javascript speed race.
If your progress bar shows progress for several different tasks, it might be a good idea to divide it into several progress bars showing the progress for each part. Say you must download some data file, then import locally (it could be anything: an update for a game, a feed for an rss reader, etc...). you could have one progress bar, but you have no way of knowing if the time taken by the two subtasks is similar, or if downloading will take 95% of time, or if downloading will be almost instant...
So you show two bars : Downloading data... 100% complete Importing Data... 47%
You will never have bars that never change filling rate, because downloading rate or available processor resources or quantities of other things may vary, but you can limit it by not using only one bar to show completion of entirely different tasks.
The lower backing tiers may be like pre-buying, but the higher ones are not investments nor pre-commands. It's donating money for a cause you believe in.
But that's not how Google works. They take the content for free then charge money for it (indirectly through advertising), giving nothing back to the source. They're a middle-man that never pays their suppliers.
They don't take content: they extracct a small part of the content (the title and a small summary). That's called fair use.
Newspapers do the exact same thing: they take some content created by someone else (like a rioter burning a car), take a small part of that content (a photograph of the burning car), then charge users to see this extract (by having them pay for the newspaper), and give nothing back to the source.
Developers should not install it. Nor should they help install it. If the Configuration Management team cannot do it themselves, then they need to send it back to the developer for better packaging or instructions.
As a (web) developper, I strongly agree. I'll just add that the Configuration Management team should have some knowledge about the software and the environment they manage.
I've often seen software come back because sombody did'nt have a clue what their job was. ("prerequisite: apache 2.x" should be enough for anyone: I don't have time to write a doc about how to install standard software, especially when I don't know the target server configuration)
A mutation could happen in single cell, ar a group of cells during the tree growth, and then a leaf or an entire branch spawns from this cell.
If cells in tree nodes are for some reason likely to be the subject of mutations, it's easy to imagine natural selection occuring at a cell level, with a branch growing from the fittest cells.
In short, this guy made a game where you have the first few levels for free, then you can pay to unlock many more levels. Despite the game having great reviews on most websites and great ratings in google play, it has more than 11k downloads, and has been unlocked 22 times in three weeks of existence.
Since all the sites run on separate databases, you need to go around to each website & configure modules, change the same settings over & over again, etc.
All art created for the contest is released under two licences. the creative common is easy, but i can't seem to understand a word of gplv3.
Say I want to use some of this art for a game. What can I do? (outside of the contest, the rules for it are clear) Can I sell my game? Am I required distribute all art I create and the source code under the same licences?
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Steam doesn't work on mint debian. It requires glibc 2.15, and lmde only has glibc 2.13.
It's always possible to install a more recetn version, but it's easier to just use a more up-to-date distrib.
I don't know how Joomla has evolved since I last used it several years ago (just after the introduction of joomla 1.5), but its flaws were blockers for me.
It had almost no extensibility (new features had to be written almost like external applications, integrability with the core of the cms was minimal), no adaptability (you couldn't add a field to a content form without modifying half a dozen files, and there were no way to have different content types. Also you couldn't change the site structure: you had to hav all your content under a 2-levels hierarchy of sections and category), and no inter-operability between extensions (an extension like jacl, which brought almost-decent acl capabilities to joomla, was unable to work with community manager, a widely used extension that implemented the concept of use groups).
And it used an MVC object structure that looked like the software architect had no idea of the goal of an mvc structure, but had read in a blog that mvc is good.
it's easy to find and hire people who are familiar with it.
who *think they* are familiar with it.
Drupal looks easy to extend for a beginner developper because, like php, you don't have to do something right to have it work.
So it's really quick to have a mess of a codebase that leads to an unstable site that's a nightmare to maintain.
But if you really know the insides of it, you can craft a something beautiful that runs smoothly and is easy to work with. It's not perfect, and "real" coders will look at its non-use of OOP with contempt, but it's pretty good at what it can do.
And, let's be honest for a second: it's one of the least horrible open source CMSs out there (at least in the php world, I don't really know about Java or python or other CMSs).
If you want a good pphp cms, you have Drupal or Ezpublish. There's wordpress that wants to be a cms but isn't quite there, Joomla is a joke, Typo3 is from another time... The perfect software doesn't exist.
A few years ago is not now. Try writing a game running in html5 canvas.
I wrote one a few months ago for the github game-off: https://github.com/RonanL/game-off-2012
It's faster in chrome/chromium, but it's playable in firefox and opera.
I've written several tests to optimize canvas rendering. I found that chrome benefits a lot more from pre-rendering in an hidden canvas, while firefox doesn't benefit from it at all. Opera is about twice as fast as firefox for pure canvas rendering, and a little faster than chrome.
Keep in mind, I only test rendering a small (12x12px) image, and a game is a lot more than that: pure js performance is very important and not tested here at all.
Here are my test results right now (on linux, with several tabs open in chrome but only one in opera):
Chrome 24:
Draw 100k sprites: 0.551s
Draw 100k sprites in a buffer: 0.370s
Draw 100k sprites with a rotation: 2.193s
Draw 100k sprites with a rotation in a buffer: 2.145s
Draw rotate a sprite in a buffer, the draw it 100k times in another buffer: 0.427s
Opera 12.12:
0.441s
0.344s
1.964s
1.856s
0.344s
Firefox 17:
0.815s
0.892s
4.267s
3.897s
3.085s
Opera's javascript engine was pretty fast a few years ago, before chrome existed. It was way faster than firefox's, ie's or safari's.
Then chrome arrived and, although opera's engine has evolved a lot and is faster than ever, it never managed to reclaim its first place, even letting firefox claim the second place in the javascript speed race.
If your progress bar shows progress for several different tasks, it might be a good idea to divide it into several progress bars showing the progress for each part.
Say you must download some data file, then import locally (it could be anything: an update for a game, a feed for an rss reader, etc...). you could have one progress bar, but you have no way of knowing if the time taken by the two subtasks is similar, or if downloading will take 95% of time, or if downloading will be almost instant...
So you show two bars :
Downloading data... 100% complete
Importing Data... 47%
You will never have bars that never change filling rate, because downloading rate or available processor resources or quantities of other things may vary, but you can limit it by not using only one bar to show completion of entirely different tasks.
So, temperature uses unsigned floats?
That's how it works in opera: anonymous tabs not windows (but you can put the tab in a separate window if you want to).
As a web developper, I often use this to have several sessions with different users on the same website.
The lower backing tiers may be like pre-buying, but the higher ones are not investments nor pre-commands. It's donating money for a cause you believe in.
Not if it takes the economic value of the original it isn't.
How does it takes economic value from the original, exactly?
But that's not how Google works. They take the content for free then charge money for it (indirectly through advertising), giving nothing back to the source. They're a middle-man that never pays their suppliers.
They don't take content: they extracct a small part of the content (the title and a small summary). That's called fair use.
Newspapers do the exact same thing: they take some content created by someone else (like a rioter burning a car), take a small part of that content (a photograph of the burning car), then charge users to see this extract (by having them pay for the newspaper), and give nothing back to the source.
I think it's intended as a real game, not a way to learn html5
Apple was actually first on this, with their mapping of sub-oceanic starbucks.
Developers should not install it. Nor should they help install it. If the Configuration Management team cannot do it themselves, then they need to send it back to the developer for better packaging or instructions.
As a (web) developper, I strongly agree.
I'll just add that the Configuration Management team should have some knowledge about the software and the environment they manage.
I've often seen software come back because sombody did'nt have a clue what their job was. ("prerequisite: apache 2.x" should be enough for anyone: I don't have time to write a doc about how to install standard software, especially when I don't know the target server configuration)
A mutation could happen in single cell, ar a group of cells during the tree growth, and then a leaf or an entire branch spawns from this cell.
If cells in tree nodes are for some reason likely to be the subject of mutations, it's easy to imagine natural selection occuring at a cell level, with a branch growing from the fittest cells.
Will their preferred method of vaporization be Death Star or lludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?
Destruction by Lexx.
Exept when unlockable content just doesn't work:
http://gamedevcoder.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/monstaaa-development-summary-part-3/
In short, this guy made a game where you have the first few levels for free, then you can pay to unlock many more levels. Despite the game having great reviews on most websites and great ratings in google play, it has more than 11k downloads, and has been unlocked 22 times in three weeks of existence.
I just took a look at the french translation:
charAt carÀ
charCodeAt codeCarÀ
indexOf indiceDe
lastIndexOf dernierIndiceDe
split fendre
substring souschaîne
I foresee thousands of text encoding bugs appearing everywhere this is used.
It has been in all major french newspapers.
Since it happenned in Paris, it makes sence that it only hit national mainstream media.
Same here.
That's why I hate podcasts that don't have a transcript.
varnish + expire on drupal 7 (or pressflow 6) integrates with drupal as well as boost does.
Boost is overrated. Just put a well configured varnish in front of your site, and you don't need boost.
Since all the sites run on separate databases, you need to go around to each website & configure modules, change the same settings over & over again, etc.
That's what features is for
So I can make the game as closed as I want, but I must release any art I do based ont GPL art?
All art created for the contest is released under two licences. the creative common is easy, but i can't seem to understand a word of gplv3.
Say I want to use some of this art for a game. What can I do? (outside of the contest, the rules for it are clear)
Can I sell my game?
Am I required distribute all art I create and the source code under the same licences?