IRC Log from Laszlo Dev Chat with Sarah Allan

We had a nice time chatting about all things Laszlo. If you weren't there you can at least read the logs and perhaps stop by next time. I promise to have folks from Laszlo for each session. g'night!

Laszlo Developer chat - today 5-6 pm pst.

Time to fire up your chatzilla's and come to irc.freenode.net for a chat with Sarah Allen from Laszlosystems about building applications in Laszlo.

David vs. Goliath vs. Goliath

Nice article on CNET about Laszlo --- however it was a bit too short.

An IDE for Laszlo!

Those amazing folks at alphaWorks (IBM) are working on an IDE for Laszlo. This is insanely great news. Even more insanely great is that it's based off Eclipse, which I already use on a daily basis (and so should you!). Put on your downloading hat and go grab this.

Blogs as conversations

This might seem to be obvious at first, but Don Park's thinking about creating a new category of blogs which surround conversations on a specific topic - and allowing aggregators to pull feeds / info based off that topic. To me, I'd just say use del.icio.us and come up with a mutually agreed upon tag and just go at it - del.icio.us already has the ability to filter or include as you want and has rss already built in. Nuff 'said.

OOPS!

Looks like someone miscalculated :)

Make your tables sortable

Here's a nice demo of a html + js technique for creating sortable tables. Enjoy!

Flash Game: Battalion

Recently I talked about a game called Land of Legends. Here's another Advance Wars style game called Battalion -- basically a type of Advance Wars Flash version plus multiplayer. It's pretty fun so I encourage you to try it out.

How DND changed the world

Here's an excellent article about how Dungeons and Dragons changed the world. I played it a bit before my friends and I created our own derivation which did away with all the rules, dice, figures, etc. It basically became interactive storytelling for us, and it was great fun.

Here's a great quote:

Democrats, you better get yourselves a magic shield, because in Congress, Bush has plus three to hit.

Mozilla Firefox extension - spiderzilla

Athough not as seamlessly integrated as say scrapbook, this extension is great for grabbing sites for offline reading later. That said, I'd really like it if there were greater integration with the browser, such as lists of sites you've already mirrored, selecting ones for updating, etc. etc. It'd be great to have some way of creating your own little "offline web" so you could read things on the train or airplane, however that idea's still in the realm of too many steps to do right now.

Nightmare of Druaga

Good evening. I spent some time cleaning house today, playing with kiddos, and other things. One thing I was able to spend some time on is playing a game called Nightmare of Druaga. If you are a fan of Roguelike games or Gauntlet style arcade games, you'll really like this one. Basically you are crawling dungeons, killing monsters, and leveling up, but the graphics and amount of weapons and armor you can acquire and morph makes it pretty fun! I love games that you can just pick up and continue on even if you've had a stretch of a number of days where you havent played it.

Everything I'm playing I'm absorbing into the ideas around Unlimited Realms. More on that soon...