January 2012
26 posts
Start Typing Like a Hacker, Right away!! →
Hacker Typer
Jan 25th
Jan 25th
“The Constitution declares India to be a sovereign, socialist, secular,...”
– Constitution of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jan 25th
Defender's Quest →
Another nice, story driven TD game. This is TD Week!
Jan 25th
1 tag
pokerbaba EOD update
* Simplified some seriously messed up code. Was really tough. * Jai Jawan Jai Kissan Jai Vighyan Jai Vidwan
Jan 25th
“do”
– Anon
Jan 25th
1 tag
PokerBaba.com BOD update
* done: turn timeout, quitting in middle of the game, and folding, last man standing wins without needing any action on his part. * todo: betting specific amount, tie and ensuring that one cannot see everyone’s cards beforehand.
Jan 24th
1 tag
PokerBaba.com EOD update
* Players now can choose to sit on a specific seat, only if available. * Have ensured that betting rotation works perfectly in order of seats taken, even if new players join later. * Now distributing a random card (number between 1-13) to each player and declaring a winner after betting round is over. * Have not taken care of tie :) * This was some work. * Next step is to handle turn timeout,...
Jan 24th
1 tag
pokerbaba EOD update
* Game starts as long as there are more than one player seated in a room. * Each player is prompted to bet, in its own turn. (need to handle turn timeout and do auto-fold) * Game ends when all players have clicked on ‘Bet’. * Game restart after 5sec, if there are enough players seated on table, or goes in waiting-for-players state. * FSM rock. * Lots of edge cases need to be...
Jan 23rd
1 tag
Jan 23rd
1 tag
State Machines Rock!!!
* Coding poker game states is now super simple. Pokerbaba ki … * Currently using: https://github.com/jakesgordon/javascript-state-machine/
Jan 22nd
1 tag
Update - lots of refactoring...
* Lots of refactoring, it was very much required now. I couldn’t make sense of whats was going on. * Skipping angular, its overkill for this kind of project. Or maybe not. But it took long time making it play the way I wanted, and things simplified for me after removing it. * Now users can visit any of the (two hard-coded) rooms. * One can enter, sit, stand, (or dance) in a room and all...
Jan 22nd
Jan 21st
Kingdom Rush →
Reallllllllllly great Tower Defense game. Makes me want to develop something similar :)
Jan 21st
1 tag
Super Browser 2 Turbo HD Remix: Introduction to... →
now watching :)
Jan 15th
“Gaining control of our physical body is the first step to self mastery because...”
– A Simple But Effective Self Mastery Exercise
Jan 10th
101 Ways to Lose Your Gut - Men's Fitness →
Jan 9th
Mindbloom | Grow the life you want. →
Jan 8th
“CPVPV = Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice”
– No more virginity in Saudi if women drive, says council - Bikya Masr
Jan 8th
1 tag
Started server side development for pokerbaba
* Development Stack: nodejs 0.6 on windows socket.io expressjs mongodb with mongoose ejs Angularjs * Have got basic login and session binding with socket.io in place. * Next step is to have some system rooms, that users can enter/leave. Sit on vacant chairs, if any. Standup and go to lobby. * The tricky part is to ensure that user doesn’t exist at two places at the same time. 
Jan 8th
Code Year →
237,969 people have decided to learn to code in 2012.
Jan 7th
command line - What's a good alternative Windows... →
Jan 7th
1 tag
socket.io and Express. Tying it all together. →
Gr8 article explaining how to glue together user-sessions and websockets. Extremely useful in starting the server-side coding of pokerbaba.com :)
Jan 7th
Stop whining and start hiring remote workers -... →
Jan 6th
Open All Selected Links - Chrome Extension →
Great when watching tv series on http://tv.desitvforum.net
Jan 4th
“Either LIVE or DIE, there is no room for TRY.”
Jan 3rd
December 2011
12 posts
Dec 30th
1 tag
Dec 28th
Free Game Assets ‹ Iron Star Media Ltd →
They have really cool stuff.
Dec 28th
1 tag
Dec 28th
Do Animations only using CSS3  →
Dec 27th
Dec 27th
2 tags
TNBT is PokerBaba.com
* Finally I have picked up a big personal project.  * This is the first time that I have bought a domain, even before starting to code the application. * PokerBaba is going to be an HTML5 web-application, which will allow friends to play poker privately. * So that they can play everyday, without worrying about strangers disturbing their games. Settle private duels. And ask for their money via...
Dec 27th
The Word of Notch: Ludum Dare is a wonderful thing →
notch: I’ve talked about it before, and I’ll talk about it again. Ludum Dare is an amazing thing. It’s basically a recurring (three times per year? Uh. Something like that) competition where you’re supposed to make a game from scratch in 48 hours, and it just happened again this weekend. Everyone starts…
Dec 22nd
155 notes
tumblrbot asked: WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?
Dec 20th
Michal Budzynski: Tutorial: Simple game with HTML5... →
Dec 18th
Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own... →
Dec 16th
Intrinsic Motivation Doesn't Exist, Researcher... →
Dec 16th
November 2011
2 posts
Change Blindness « You Are Not So Smart →
Nov 10th
AngularJS — Superheroic JavaScript MVC Framework →
This is hardcore, changes the way web apps are developed, on client-side. AngularJS is to client-side webapp development what Rails was to server-side webapp development.
Nov 6th
September 2011
3 posts
The Stupid Things You Do at Work (and How to Fix... →
Sep 26th
“Men’s egos are fragile and they need a ridiculous level of confidence just to...”
– Self Handicapping « You Are Not So Smart
Sep 26th
Quick Screen Share →
About QuickScreenShare.com: QuickScreenShare.com is the simplest way to share screens with anybody: No registration required and completely free. Nothing to install for sharer or sharee (assuming you have Java). Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Even lets you remotely control mouse and keyboard!
Sep 17th
August 2011
5 posts
A question that begs clarification addressed to... →
The Following is an email that I sent to indiaagainstcorruption.2010@gmail.com, which is addressed to Arvind Kejriwal. If anyone know how I can contact him directly please let me know.
Aug 26th
Motion Induced Blindness →
Mo­tion In­duced Blind­ness
Aug 19th
the recursion easter egg - Did you mean recursion? →
Aug 1st
JDK 7 Features →
Aug 1st
Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no... →
Aug 1st
July 2011
18 posts
the { buckblogs :here }: Capistrano 2.3.0 →
Jul 27th
“Edison carried out a campaign to discourage the use[14] of alternating current”
– War of Currents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jul 26th