Had a fun work day of working out if Elasticsearch was better than Solr and how to implement a socket.io based geographical map clustering predictive text search. They're both great but the style of querying the data is a headache to work out. Anyone done anything like this before?

Just finished up my version of the Machi Koro board game in mIRC. Has its own eventing system and everything making it easy to expand!

Has a lot of spam though so required IRCop access. Pretty fun when you get the hang of how it all works.

Messing with Dart, I seriously do not understand languages which do not have proper date time parsing nor date time formatting (Without the use of third party extensions). You have to use a very specific set of time strings to be able to parse your time (none of which are fully standards compliant), you cannot specify your own formatting - ie you cannot tell it specifically what to look for. And finally you have to pull in a third party package to be able to format the date time. For such common uses you'd think theyd have that in the core library.

Finished todays project, minecraft NBT reader in Dart :D https://github.com/TomCaserta/dart_nbt_codec Next up world files then a browser based world viewer or editor methinks. Really want to create a static code -> Command block generator though

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖉𝖘 𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖐𝖉𝖔𝖜𝖓 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕖 (𝐒𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 ... 𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞) ... But yeah markdown is definitely needed here :P

Fun times... finally completed my works inhouse software. Still need to sort all the bugs as people find them ^_^. Now on to finishing my portfolio projects :)

34 Lines of code to do this: http://i.imgur.com/Ka7OC2u.png

http://pastebin.com/MgbJRY8a

Im starting to really hate my choice of language xD

What happens when you cross a asynchronous language with a server:

http://pastebin.com/czxHcbqG
http://pastebin.com/URSbyec8

Possibly the biggest mess of code I have had to ever create. It basically reverses the asynchronus nature of Dart for each page request so I dont have to worry about things executing in the wrong order.

Started work on my browser based dart(language) game. Class based languages that keep state across page loads are so much easier to code for. Caching all users in memory which are logged in is virtually effortless.

http://i.imgur.com/igJJhuC.png

I data mined reddit for 17 hours. The results are above :)

Do users have to login to see snippets?

Also if you go to hawkee.com and not www.hawkee.com the server doesnt respond :o

Finished my server & client cursor disco ;)

https://github.com/Plornt/CursorDiscoServer
https://github.com/Plornt/CursorDiscoClient

Demo: http://plornt.com/WebSockets/cursordiscoclient.html

Syncs users cursors, background and song.

All coded in Dart :D

Just tried to hop on to Dart again to try and see if I can fix any of my code. Thought since there is no new documentation on the part they changed that I would look in the examples that come with the program (Fresh install) so I can see what they did. Turns out the examples no longer work either!

What the fuck sort of language (even though its in alpha) makes so drastic changes that literally every line of code from a month ago is invalid. Gah. Just fired up Dart again to code from where I left off and literally NOTHING works and now for some reason doesnt support spaces in names either! Yay.

Got a week off next week so hopefully I can possibly finish off my game engine properly and enter the git hub Game Off. Got some nice ideas for a game based on Forking and time travel + cloning.

Just finished event firing in my game... Really unhappy at how its turning out. This is my first time doing anything like this and it feels weird when it works but doesnt look nice :(

@Hawkee is it supposed to say " liked your comment, " rather than my own name? For example when you clicked like on my comment it shows "Hawkee liked your Comment, SunnyD"

Edit: Oh I see thats just the profile name that its on and it links to the comment. I get it now :P!

Finally got all the parts for a robot im making... Fired up the battery, connected raspberry pi & arduino to my battery pack. All working fine. Connect USB hub to raspberry pi (WHICH IS LABELED WORKS WITH RASPBERRY PI) fire it up. Connect wifi & bluetooth adapter & arduino firewire. BAM smoke everywhere, absolute rubbish. Never ever buy a dynamode USB hub if you dont want a fire to start in your house and you actually want to keep all your devices. Currently filing a claim via amazon.

:( The moment when you compile dart to javascript and your bloody loading bar drops down to 20 fps D:

Just finished adding animation support to my small game engine. I feel I should have planned the entire thing first as its now turning into a mess of code which would be unmaintainable if I stopped and came back to it. :/ https://github.com/Plornt/Iso-Game/tree/master/web

Fun times when the preloader has to have a preloader to load the preloading image.

Edit: Ah shit... I've missed something really important out... Time to recode entire sections -.-

The only downside of Dart is not having access to the hundreds of opensource canvas engines :( Been spending the past 3 hours making my own... It works nicley so far with a pre loader but its a bitch when you notice you forgot to put in a feature and have to go back all the way through it or when you realise how long its going to take to implement something as simple as events to different objects.

What I have so far: https://github.com/Plornt/Iso-Game/tree/master/web Not too much...

Hey @Hawkee any chance we could get the status box etc on the explore page too? Just so I dont have to switch over when I think of something whilst being on that page! Also could the main home page just be the explore page with a login box to the side like reddit? Then people can see what the site is about and choose to lurk for a bit before deciding to sign up. Very rarely will someone go to a site and just sign up without knowing what specifically it is first (like facebook).

Hey if anyone is stuck on what to code next, check out: http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/

Great place to find things to give yourself a little challenge no matter what programming language you know...

OOh liking the new design. Looks a bit like facebook. Does only Hawkee's posts show up on front page?

Yeah its rather old sorry :P Small project I had going a while back.

While you are on mah profile... just noticed, you need to stop the animation of the transparancy of the edit buttons before loading the animation again since it queues it up. Just call the stop animation in jquery before starting another (if you are using jquery, havent checked ^^)