In May of 2012, Flyclops launched Domino!, an asynchronous multiplayer dominoes game. Here’s a fun look at the first 7 months. Hi, I’m Dave In late 2011, I joined the boys at Flyclops in order to help them complete their new game, Domino! A very polished take on the ages-old classic game dominoes, with a wonderful [...]

This is as much a note for myself as it is for anyone else, but I’m executing a couple shell scripts via cron that I’d very much like to be able to time. I know they take from less than a second to a couple of seconds to complete, and would like to be able [...]

Along with the coolest game company on Earth, I launched a little game recently. The pick-up has been great… but I quickly learned a little something about RDS. The API server is write-heavy. It’s constantly saving state, setting people as online or offline, writing data about games, etc. There are more API writes than reads. [...]

While I’m stil processing the information coming out about OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), the talk in the office has been anything but positive. It all revolves around apps.

Scientific Revolution by ~pod-tanwen on deviantART Those of us who had our adolescence peppered with the invention of the x86 processor, who gamed away our grade-school years on the Atari 2600 and watched Nintendo become the new heavy-weight champ of the console world with the invention of the original NES – we have spent the [...]

At the Q BBQ in Philadelphia. View the full set here.

It’s pretty easy to get an EC2-type experience from Rackspace while saving money, getting outstanding support, and reaping all the same benefits.

Check out Stephen Coles write-up on Fonts In Use about this awesome ad for EF International Language Centers, which does an amazing job of using type to convey emotion, feeling, culture, and language. EF – Live The Language – Paris from Albin Holmqvist on Vimeo. Also see Barcelona, London, and Beijing. As Mr. Coles points out, [...]

I have medically diagnosed “Adult ADHD.” But I can tell you pretty definitively it’s really just plain ADHD, and I’ve had it all my life. As a quick note, medically speaking, there is no more ADD – just ADHD (I have no idea why they did away with the differentiation) – even though I’m hardly [...]

So cool to stare at a stone carving that a person held in their hands 25,000 years ago. Click for full version.

It’s functional, but it’s just beautiful!

Go ahead, meet Mailroom.