It’s a Javascript-based RPG that runs in your browser. To anyone who doesn’t code, this game will probably seem mundane, but as I said to someone when describing it earlier, “There are very few things on the web to which I respond, ‘How did they do that?’ And this is one." Note that you right-click to cast a spell, and that your mouse cursor isn’t an arrow or index/hand, like it is everywhere else on the web.http://www.smokymonkeys.com/triglav/
I have added an HTML editor to the article editor of PageCat. It's working out quite nicely. I have a couple of features that I would like to add to it (for which I even have source code, just haven't integrated them yet), including a MS Word HTML cleanup script and a graphical table creator.
The MS Word thing is very handy. If you've ever had to edit a web page someone else created in Word you know what I mean. It puts all kinds of extra tags into the HTML that make it very hard to read. It also uses all sorts of <font> tags, which are just yucky. This script I stole from some other site has a bunch of regular expression replaces that do away with all of the Word yuckiness.
A small stereo component that connects to your network and plays MP3s from your computer’s hard drive.http://www.slimp3.com
I’ve been thinking about Fluid software’s e-tools for D&D. It seems pretty comprehensive, although not as pretty as the original that came bundled with the Player’s Handbook. However, with output like this, you really can’t complain too much. (There are actually only two graphic files used throughout that entire page - very impressive.)
Anyway, I've been thinking of taking their sample HTML page (linked to above) and putting my character into it. And then I was thinking that it probably wouldn't be too hard to sprinkle some JScript into the thing to get it to be dynamic. Of course, I'm being a little bit crazy. Er... A lot crazy. But it seems like something that might be useful.
I was thinking today about an interview I had at Vanguard a few years ago. The place, even on first glance, was obviously not anywhere that I would enjoy working. But I continued on the interview, chalking it up to experience.
They had scheduled several people to interview me, and I was warned about one in particular regarding his attitude and tone. He was some kind of big shot that they had hired to do some VB work for them who worked for a magazine. As their "VB expert" he was elisted to do technical interviews on the day that I had mine.