Jay McGavren's Journal - Latest Comments

Re: Jay McGavren’s Journal

jaymcgavren — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:32:40 -0000

That's limited to "if adjacent.color == my.color then destroy self". I'm talking "if foo < bar then foo++", "if piece.count < 20 then opponent.field << GarbageBlock.new", etc., with the statements actually written on the pieces. Non-nerds need not apply.

Re: Jay McGavren’s Journal

Nathan O'Toole — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:24:15 -0000

Isn't that like every puzzle game?

Re: RubyOnAcid: More fun with enhanced CombinationFactory…

Logan Barnett — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:40:27 -0000

You should totally port Acid to a C#/Boo/Unityscript implementation (preferably C#!) so you can leverage a 3D engine that runs all over the place. I'd pimp it. Unity has a nice particle emitter editor for fairly simple stuff, but what you do with Acid would blow that away. Plus you could do mesh deformations, which isn't that hard from what I've read. Keep up the good work!

Re: Networked Drawing Canvas in DRb

Hubert Lepicki — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:52:24 -0000

This is cool, and can be even useful :D.

Re: Networked Drawing Canvas in DRb

Mikel — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:49:32 -0000

Well done. Great article for whyday!

Re: Networked Drawing Canvas in DRb

Brendanity — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:02:58 -0000

This is so awesome, and now I know Ruboto exists.

Re: Networked Drawing Canvas in DRb

c0c0x — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:21:04 -0000

very nice man...I hope next articles like this...fun and useful...

Re: MP3 conversions of Ruby conference videos…

stevenhaddox — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:02:15 -0000

Jay - this is absolutely awesome! Thanks a ton, my soon-to-be-long commute will be much improved because of these!!!

If I could throw you a wishlist of features it would be (in order of priority):
- ID3 tags on each file
- Podcast Feed I can subscribe to with iTunes / my iPhone to download over the air (oh yeah)
- Remaining videos be added & converted (including RailsConf keynotes?, pretty sure they aren't uploading most presentations)
- Remove silence before the audio begins (not a big deal here)
I could honestly care less about the disk space, I waste a lot more space on many less important things ;)

Thanks again for the awesome effort you've put into these (and for getting me to finally find wget for OS X!)

-Steven

Re: Ruboto On Acid…

jaymcgavren — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:38:04 -0000

And here is my answer to that. :)

http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/a...

Re: Ruboto On Acid…

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:59:21 -0000

Cool work but "Ruby on Acid" is such a strange name. I'm a Ruby programmer who experiments with acid (last night, even) and I can't figure out how this is like LSD at all. LSD makes letters on a computer screen look as if they're dancing around and have a mind of their own. It's also entirely impossible to think logically enough to code while on it. I recommend you buy some acid and see how it's nothing like this at all. ;)

Re: Ruby tweets!

jaymcgavren — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:35:18 -0000

I didn't realize that Mac OS X Snow Leopard doesn't include Tk. You can find (working) directions on compiling and installing Ruby from source (which includes Tk) here:

http://hivelogic.com/articles/...

Re: Ruby tweets!

jaymcgavren — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:13:42 -0000

Elliot Cable had a correction for me via Twitter:

"Monkey patch the IO class, but only for the STDOUT object.” is a bit inaccurate. You never touch the `IO` class at all, in fact; you only touch the eigenmetaclass of `STDOUT`.

http://twitter.com/elliottcabl...

Thanks, Elliot. I'd promise to use proper terminology in the future, but the word "eigenmetaclass" makes my eyes bulge out a bit. :)

Re: Ruby tweets!

dominikh — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:17:39 -0000

Also the meaning of life, embedded in a "wtf?" expression:

$ ruby -e 'p !!?!??*:!!?!'

Re: Ruby tweets!

jaymcgavren — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:59:52 -0000

David Brady got a Mandelbrot down to 136 characters, then a reader of his got it to 120. As of this writing Twitter user @shanehanna has it at 116. (Ruby 1.9 only.)

http://www.heartmindcode.com/b...

Re: Ruby tweets!

jaymcgavren — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:09:38 -0000

Heh, awesome, I didn't know about "?". (Ooh, I bet I can use that to compress 3-digit integers...)

Re: Ruby tweets!

dbillskog — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:24:28 -0000

The meaning of life:
$ ruby -e "p ?? + ?+ - ?- == ?= ? ?* : ?."

Re: #thelegendofchung

jaymcgavren — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:36:12 -0000

That's awesome! I was two years older than that when I was coding little flapping birds in Commodore BASIC. (And I never learned assembly language. Or Chinese. :)

Re: #thelegendofchung

helenyeo — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:57:41 -0000

I knew @heisenthought in Singapore when he was a Buddhist. He appeared to be able to elevate himself ever so slightly. That might have been an illusion, as @heisenthought has the ability to cloud men's minds. What isn't an illusion is that @heisenthought, at the age of 5 years, wrote his first program in 8086 Assembler to translate simple Chinese phrases into English!

Re: Jemini Tutorial (Part 1 of 2)

jaymcgavren — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:48:10 -0000

Here for now:

http://kenai.com/projects/jemi...

Soon to be here...

http://github.com/jemini/gaunt...

...and always linked from http://jemini.org .

Re: Jemini Tutorial (Part 1 of 2)

Kristian — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:52:31 -0000

Where is the source code? The intial code and the end result? Would be nice to look at while following and then to use as a base afterwards :)

Re: Jemini Tutorial (Part 1 of 2)

André Paquet — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:35:20 -0000

Nice tutorial and impressive framework. Good example of JRuby's usefulness

Re: Video podcasts on MythTV with MythNetTV

Patrick Martin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:33:58 -0000

Very useful, thanks!

Re: Gate to the Star Road 1.0

jaymcgavren — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:46:35 -0000

Absolutely - I'd love a critique on it. It's not a whole new game by any means, but the few levels I have are complete and pretty polished.

You might mention that I'm allowing re-use of the levels in other SMW edits (as long as I'm credited). It'd be great to see them included in a more complete game.

Re: Gate to the Star Road 1.0

Vernos — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:56:03 -0000

If i ever get back to LPing I might just do this one if you dont mind.

Re: Quick HOWTO for Hirb formatter for irb/Rails console…

Chip Castle — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:20:43 -0000

I love hirb! What I really needed was your .irbrc suggestion, which saves me from typing in those commands on each script/console session. Thanks!