New wordpress version, new k2 version. Without a hitch.
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I’ve decided to do a quiet release with this just to see how it gets on. This might not be it’s finished name, and it this also probably won’t be the resulting url, but here goes.
Taken from the start page:
The intended purpose of this wiki is to catalog game design ideas, concepts and functionality. It will attempt to include how games have implemented certain ideas, provide discussion over these ideas and describe possible modifications, improvements and extensions. It’s also a place for people to describe an idea and put it up for comments and criticism.
Feel free to create an ideas sub-page off any existing subject. For example, if you had an idea for an fps you would create a page here if it doesn’t already exist, then create your specific idea here and link to it from the first page. Easy as pie.
Comments, criticism welcome.
Is this a good idea? Would you use it and hopefully contribute? Anything I should change?
I hope to do some work on the design as time goes on, but I just want to get it out there and hopefully have people contribute.
I guess it’s a bit of a touchy subject, a lot of people don’t want to share their idea because ‘people will steal it’.
I probably need to work out some sort of ‘attribution’ agreement where anyone using the ideas has to conform to certain criteria.
I’ll probably be doing a thing or two on it over the next while. Moving things around and making everything nicer. The front page could use some work already.
Anyway, please add things and orgainse the wiki! I don’t realy know how it should be organised so start a discussion!
The blog was down for ages! In fact the entire server was down. In actual fact it’s currently down and I’m writing this in reverse-retrospect (introspect?). I’m writing this before it’s back up in the pre (prespect?) in the prospect that it’s going to back up at some point.
The more unfortunate thing is that all my email goes through that same server. So I don’t get no email. Oh and get this: it’s due to a power failure in Los Angeles. It’s hot there and lots of Americans turned on their air conditioning units putting too much drain on the system. Time for another nuke-plant. The downside is old people have started croaking due to the heat.
Anyway, for those that know I’m a bit of a web-designer (and for those who don’t, you do now). So I’m working on a content management system. The main aims are for it to be easy to use and very easy for me to maintain. One of these ease of use ideas is in-page-editing. Like k2 when you are an admin and logged into the site a little pen icon will appear next to a publication, not like k2 clicking it will go into a javascript inline editor. Saving will be AJAX’d. The editor will only allow span type styles (bold, italic and custom styles). There will also be an AJAX ‘content block’ editor to add paragraphs, headings, images and lists. By separating these two modes of editing it becomes very easy to make the resulting content XHTML compliant, and it will be very easy to deal with internally.
So this having been the gameplan for today (not including two very dull lectures) I proceeded to attempt to discover how one goes ahead and programs a web based HTML editor. It was difficult, but I managed to gleam that it involves an iframe, and programmatically creating an entire document within it which, quite frankly, is disgusting.
So I spend many greasy (not really) hours slugging through javascript. This being my first official foray into this messy world I was unfortunately correct in my assumption that it blows chunks.
So some good news. In Safari I discovered quite by accident that pressing Apple-1 through however many bookmarks you have in your bookmark bar goes to that link. Funky. Apple-2 for me posts the current page to del.icio.us through a ‘bookmarklet’. Sweet.
If you’re thinking about getting a website anytime in the future, it might be a good idea to get one now. Dreamhost are having a awesome deal. $8US a month gets you:
- A Domain for a year
- 20GB of storage
- 1TB of bandwidth a month
- 675 email accounts
- Ability to host unlimited domains (extra domains are $9US a year)
Very impressive, that’s right 1000 GB of bandwidth a month. I don’t even think huge sites get that much bandwidth.
Essentially you could host anything including large movies.
Just finished getting wordpress 2.0 and K2 Revision 133 working with the plugins I use and the modifications I run. Took a while. I was having weird troubles with theloop.php, saying there was an unexpected if statement, but the file was unchanged from last version. Unexpectedly the problem disappeared, fun. Most of the modifications are, again, seamless - but the admin panel looks and feels much nicer.
As always, this is beta software - if you find any problems the authors of the software and I would be very thankful to hear about it.