So long and so out of touch...
by Brett Fattori · 03/03/2006 (5:58 am) · 5 comments
I feel so disconnected from this community as of late. I had so many good plans for little one off games to try with T2D when I purchased it back in October after IGC. Seems like I used to post new goodies about dRacer on a regular basis -- but as of late I just don't have the time to do much of anything.
I'm in the final stretch of getting my BS in IT. I'm currently taking two classes and finishing have one left to go. I took my final CLEP exam yesterday which covered biology, geology, astronomy, and physics. It'll give me credits for classes that I have taken but didn't complete back in the day. I'm pretty excited, but it's been painful.
Lately, all I've been doing (when not schooling) is working. The place I work at has ambitious goals to develop a very comprehensive set of components that enable application development for the web. Yeah, I know -- seen it before. Well, I've not seen anything like this... Believe you me when I say I've looked at Prototype, WebComponentArt, Laszlo, and recently ZX. We evaluate these component libs everytime they come out to see if they have something we don't. Apparently we're still ahead of the curve. I should mention that Prototype really isn't a component lib, it's more of a structure or framework. People usually build on Prototype, but it's the only cohesive part of the project, usually. So, back to our stuff... We're at a point where we have a complete set of UI components that are browser agnostic and are totally OO, running in a linked client/server environment utilizing remoting over AJAX to provide an application-like experience.
Wow, that was a mouthfull, but it's true. We're so integrated that it hurts that I cannot release this stuff and show people what a true Web 2.0 framework can be like. Like I said, I've seen them all that are out there. And yeah, they usually have some sort of component demo, but no real applications are totally built upon them. The competition is used to make bits and pieces of a web-app functional. What we're developing encompasses the whole application.
So, there... now you know what I've been busy with. I hope to get back to gaming soon... Keep a place here for me!
- Brett
I'm in the final stretch of getting my BS in IT. I'm currently taking two classes and finishing have one left to go. I took my final CLEP exam yesterday which covered biology, geology, astronomy, and physics. It'll give me credits for classes that I have taken but didn't complete back in the day. I'm pretty excited, but it's been painful.
Lately, all I've been doing (when not schooling) is working. The place I work at has ambitious goals to develop a very comprehensive set of components that enable application development for the web. Yeah, I know -- seen it before. Well, I've not seen anything like this... Believe you me when I say I've looked at Prototype, WebComponentArt, Laszlo, and recently ZX. We evaluate these component libs everytime they come out to see if they have something we don't. Apparently we're still ahead of the curve. I should mention that Prototype really isn't a component lib, it's more of a structure or framework. People usually build on Prototype, but it's the only cohesive part of the project, usually. So, back to our stuff... We're at a point where we have a complete set of UI components that are browser agnostic and are totally OO, running in a linked client/server environment utilizing remoting over AJAX to provide an application-like experience.
Wow, that was a mouthfull, but it's true. We're so integrated that it hurts that I cannot release this stuff and show people what a true Web 2.0 framework can be like. Like I said, I've seen them all that are out there. And yeah, they usually have some sort of component demo, but no real applications are totally built upon them. The competition is used to make bits and pieces of a web-app functional. What we're developing encompasses the whole application.
So, there... now you know what I've been busy with. I hope to get back to gaming soon... Keep a place here for me!
- Brett
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#2
I messed a lot with Prototype lately, it's really helpful when you have some dirty work to make with Javascript.
But I still have to find an AJAX framework/library that I can use for my day to day web developments... none of them seems over the others for the moment. I do not want to take the wrong one, I'll wait until things settle down.
So I go back to my good old loves : PHP-MySQL-Smarty. They're good enought to make strong web applications.
03/03/2006 (7:34 am)
That's really interesting.I messed a lot with Prototype lately, it's really helpful when you have some dirty work to make with Javascript.
But I still have to find an AJAX framework/library that I can use for my day to day web developments... none of them seems over the others for the moment. I do not want to take the wrong one, I'll wait until things settle down.
So I go back to my good old loves : PHP-MySQL-Smarty. They're good enought to make strong web applications.
#3
03/03/2006 (9:30 am)
Glad to hear you're still alive, Brett. And good luck on finishing up school! :)
#4
Ive been starting to use AJAX in places that make sense using MS ATLAS in our web apps. Any new tool would be cool.
03/03/2006 (4:26 pm)
Any links to your employers website, i want to check this out.Ive been starting to use AJAX in places that make sense using MS ATLAS in our web apps. Any new tool would be cool.
Torque Owner Thomas \"Man of Ice\" Lund
Great to hear from you. I know how you feel - I'm more or less back in business too, but have totally lost time to read the e.g. forums.
Your work sounds intriguing. Have you looked at Echo2 and EchoStudio2? http://www.nextapp.com/. I really love their approach to web applications. Having sessions server side makes things so damn easy when coding feature rich clients in a browser. I've use Echo1 previously years ago, and have somewhat lost touch with all the fancy new things comming - AJAX etc.
So many things to learn, so little time
Good luck on your exams!!! And get back to game dev again!