Janko in a Jar

Factor, one of the programming languages that intrigue me the most (I made server of not yet released Ask Robi with it and am starting another project), will recieve 3 talks in next days. One of them will be at Hollywood of geeks - Google. The good news is that the talk should be accessible on Google video (hopefully soon).

Link to the post

I was just mentioning PTK and certain rumors and today I saw the review of a game made in PTK for iPhone.

Comment on youtube:

You can get the iPhone game here.

A guy asked at some forum that I frequent where he can find some apps that test a list of webpages if some text exists on them. Well I don’t know for such programs but this shouted for few quick lines of REBOL so I posted them to him, and here too if I am already writing..

check: func [ url text ] [ if/else find read url text [ "ok" ] [ "OOPS!" ] ]
check-sites: func [ sites ] [ foreach site sites [ print join site/1 [ ": " check site/1 site/2 ] ] ]

so you go to rebol console and use it like this:

check-sites [ [ http://www.najdi.si "najdi.si" ] [ http://www.google.com "microsoft" ] ]

and console says:

connecting to: www.najdi.si
http://www.najdi.si : ok
connecting to: www.google.com
http://www.google.com : OOPS!

Of course this is very simple example script, but it can be a basis for adding logging, sending emails on errors, checking multiple strings per page .. whatever.

I have embedded nekoVM with Haxe compilation into a PTK based 2D game engine. It’s all still very early, but this is the first test app:

If you have windows you can download it and try it for yourself. You can see Haxe source in NekoPtkGame.hx inside zip. I will write few tutorials about embedding nekoVM/Haxe into c++ app soon. PTK is one of the most solid and tested 2D game libraries that work on Windows and Mac computers. Direct link here.

//edit: I added the missing link to zip

Some progress has been made:

All graphics is just programmer’s art.. we are talking to / seeking the artists.

long live REFAKTOR d.o.o.