Matthew Wallace

Skial Bainn: Haxe Roundup 153

matthewswallace — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:50:09 -0500

All the videos from WWX13 are now online. Thanks to the Silex Labs team for the hard work!

Nicolas who’s WWX13 talk called Random graphic doodles, has released his Haxe NME / OpenFL samples.

Matthew has taken NME Tilelayer and ported it to OpenFL, available on haxelib. For…

Openfl-Tilelayer is now on haxelib

matthewswallace — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:32:18 -0500

Openfl-Tilelayer is now on haxelib:

I’ve uploaded the first version of openfl-tilelayer to haxelib. Please feel free to log any bugs or jump in and help by forking the project on github. https://github.com/matthewswallace/openfl-tilelayer

From nme-tilelayer to openfl-tilelayer

matthewswallace — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:54:42 -0500

From nme-tilelayer to openfl-tilelayer:

This project is an openfl version of nme-tilelayer. The point of this project is to offer the same functionality that nme-tilelayer has but make it compatible with Haxe 3 and openfl.

Openfl-tilelayer is lightweight and very optimized wrapper over openfl’s powerful but lowlevel ‘drawTiles’ which offers the best rendering performance

(ie. batching) on native platforms.

I welcome anyone to fork project and help imporve. I was not the original author of the code so name spaces and current code is pretty much a representation of the previous version. The current project was just to get to a point of compilation and working code with openfl and Haxe 3. I’m 100% sure there are bugs and more work needs to be done.

Also please feel free to improve on the Readme file. I’m sure some of the previous info will become outdated as we work on this.

Skial Bainn: Haxe Roundup 152

matthewswallace — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:17:59 -0500

Skial Bainn: Haxe Roundup 152:

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Joshua has released a blog post on how to replace an OpenFL backend, going as far as creating a simple HTML5 alternative,
as Sprites, as Graphic objects and more.

Also Philippe has recently added OpenFL support to Flashdevelop, proj.nmml is handled as NME andproj.xml as OpenFL.

Erica McCowan has written Haxe Extension Test to demonstrate the ability of Haxe to use native code extensions in order to fully integrate with the target platform. Includes examples for Android, iOs, Mac and Windows.

Silex Labs has started releasing wwx2013 videos, Cocktail for game UI’s, OpenFL Announcement and Macro’s : A lot has changed in Haxe 3 and What is Haxe?.

Lars Doucet has written a excellent article called BazaarBot: An Open-Source Economics Engine.

Alexander has successfully compiled an old NME project to Emscripten without any code changes with OpenFL. Be patient though, its 17mb.

Sublime Text Gist Plugin

matthewswallace — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:04:16 -0500

Sublime Text Gist Plugin:

Sublime Text 2 plugin for creating new Gists from selected text

What is Haxe ?

matthewswallace — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 09:24:22 -0500

What is Haxe ?

Haxe on github

matthewswallace — Wed, 29 May 2013 16:20:04 -0500

Haxe on github:

Just in case you missed it. Haxe and all of the Haxe Foundation official projects are now on github, so FORK till your hearts content.

How to setup OpenFL

matthewswallace — Tue, 28 May 2013 08:29:31 -0500

How to setup OpenFL:

If you have been exploring Haxe development and you haven’t heard the big news from the 2013 WWX conference then you should checkout the presentation by Joshua Granick about OpenFL and the future of multi-platform development with Haxe and OpenFL.

Here is a guide to setting up OpenFL. Keep in mind you must have Haxe 3 installed and if you are an OS X user, as of right now, you need Neko 32bit installed.

Install Haxe

Download Haxe from http://www.haxe.org/download

If you are running OS X, you need to (temporarily) install Neko 32-bit instead of the 64-bit version that comes with Haxe by default:https://gist.github.com/jgranick/5658434

Install OpenFL
haxelib install openfl
haxelib install openfl-tools
haxelib install openfl-native
haxelib run openfl setup
Setup

Some targets are self-sufficient, but others require additional tools before they can be used
openfl setup windows
openfl setup linux
openfl setup android
openfl setup blackberry
There is no “setup” command for Emscripten right now. You can follow the install instructions for Emscripten at https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Tutorial

Samples

You can see the available samples:
openfl create
Then you can create a copy of a sample, like this:
openfl create DisplayingABitmap
Then you can build a sample using one of the following commands:
openfl test windows
openfl test mac
openfl test linux
openfl test ios
openfl test ios -simulator
openfl test android
openfl test blackberry
openfl test blackberry -simulator
openfl test flash
(beta) openfl test emscripten
openfl test html5
Help

You can ask @singmajesty on Twitter or go to #haxe on IRC (Freenode)

Announcement of #OpenFL formally NME, at WWX conference.

matthewswallace — Sun, 26 May 2013 15:05:04 -0500

Announcement of #OpenFL formally NME, at WWX conference.

HaxeFlixel

matthewswallace — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:59:09 -0500

HaxeFlixel:

HaxeFlixel is an open source 2D game library written in the Haxe Language. It makes creating games fun, easier and free.

HaxeFlixel is proudly made with Haxe, NME and originally based on as3 code from Flixel. Haxe is a programming language similar to as3 but far superior and open-source.

HaxeFlixel currently lets you compile games to IOS, Android, Blackberry, WebOS, Mac, Windows, Linux and Flash.
read more.

Skial Bainn: Haxe Roundup 150

matthewswallace — Wed, 22 May 2013 10:01:02 -0500

Skial Bainn: Haxe Roundup 150:

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Philippe Elsass has created an incredible tool to generate typed definitions from the CreateJS Toolkit to Haxe and Typescript. It “could easily be extended to other languages”, so maybe NME should adopt it? Apparently when the Dart Toolkit is open sourced, a variant of CreateJS, it will be possible to make an NME Toolkit!.

Niko finished his HTML5 game created with Haxe and Box2D, not sure what its called though.

Andy Li’s improvements to the Haxe lexer in Pygments, the lexer that Github, Bitbucket and others use, has finally been merged.

Andy has also written about haxe.unit, “the unit testing package bundled in Haxe”.

Cauê Waneck, creator of the Java and C# targets, has released a very cool “tiny cli” tool called mcli, which “is a simple, opinionated and type-safe way to create command line interfaces”. Checkout the example to see how elegant it is.

Peter has published a video “sneak peek of Genome2D” for Haxe. Very impressive.

Rocks has released HxQuery, a “jQuery like CSS Selectors engine written in Haxe” which allows you filter through any data structure. The engine currently supports xml, NME display list and plain Haxe objects.

Sergey Miryanov has generously made his NME extensions available through github, MIT licensed.

Andreas Rønning has shared his thoughts, generating a decent discussion, about how / if he should release his tools “Tilesheeter” and “Bonewagon”, which could be combined to make an IDE for NME.

hxslides

matthewswallace — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:01:35 -0500

hxslides:

Nice little slideshow app written in Haxe to create HTML5 slideshow presentations. Created by Nicolas Cannasse (creator of Haxe)

HypNotif - add notifications to your NME application

matthewswallace — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:08:43 -0500

HypNotif - add notifications to your NME application:

I’ll Defiantly be trying out this extention.

HypNotif

A native extension to add notifications to your NME application

This native extension brings you Apple Push Notification Service for iOS and Google Cloud Messaging for Android. The iOS part is based on Easy APNs. The Android part is based on the GCM Demo Application.

For the APNs server you can use Easy APNs.

Installation

There is an include.nmml file and ndll are compiled for:

ios armv6

ios armv7

android armv6

You can’t use notification in the iOS simulator

Usage
var hn = new HypNotif( "http", "example.com", "/notification", "/register", "/unregister" );
hn.connect(  );
You pass your server URL to the constructor with:

the protocol

the host name

the path on your server

the register end point

the unregister end point (for android only)

When the device is registered it sends to the server the following values:

the name of the OS (“and” or “ios”)

the prefered language of the system

the package name of the application

the version of the application

the device name

the device model

the device version

a device unique id (the register ID for android)

the device token (only for ios)

for iOS, if user allow badges, alerts and/or sounds

a custom user id

On Android when the stopNotif method is called it sends the following values:

the package name of the application

the version of the application

a device unique id (the register ID for android)

a custom user id

Made at Hyperfiction

Developed by :

Louis Beltramo @louisbl

License

This work is under BSD simplified License.

Skial Bainn: Haxe Roundup 149

matthewswallace — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:01:53 -0500

Skial Bainn: Haxe Roundup 149:

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Andy Li has released jQuery extern 2.0.0-alpha which supports jQuery 1.9 and 2.0 which dropped support for IE 6, 7 and 8. Andy has detailed some of the new jQuery extern features on his blog.

Mark Knol has taken on the task of documenting Flambe through the unoffical guide. He has…

StablexUI - A Haxe NME component library

matthewswallace — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:38:15 -0500

StablexUI - A Haxe NME component library:

StablexUI looks like a really promising component library for Haxe NME. This is still one thing that has been lacking in Haxe. Most of the UI libs that I’ve found in the past usually only support 1 or 2 platforms and you have to jump through some hoops to get them working with NME projects. I’m looking forward to kicking the tires and giving more of an opinion on it have I use it a little more.

You’ll find that there is pretty good documentation and demos available to look at as well. I grabbed a list of the demos from the github readme for your convenience.

Demo with android-4.x-like theme (written completely in xml):

flash: http://stablex.ru/ui/demo/demo_flash/
html5: http://stablex.ru/ui/demo/demo_html5/

Games prototypes:

Coder: all objects in this game are StablexUI widgets - play on newgrounds; sources
The Tale of Ladybird: all objects in this game are StablexUI widgets - http://stablex.ru/ladybird
Untwist: simple game with simple ui and screen transitions - http://stablex.ru/ui/demo/untwist/

Another example:

flash: http://stablex.ru/ui/demo/handlers.swf
html5: http://stablex.ru/ui/demo/handlers/

More simple demoes: http://stablex.ru/ui/demo

Haxe 3 RC2 is out

matthewswallace — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:42:26 -0500

Haxe 3 RC2 is out:

Manual Installation

On OSX/Linux, you can run the following commands to install Haxe after extracting the TGZ :

cp haxe /usr/bin/haxe
rm -rf /usr/lib/haxe
mkdir /usr/lib/haxe
cp -r std /usr/lib/haxe
mkdir /usr/lib/haxe/lib
chmod 777 /usr/lib/haxe/lib
cp std/tools/haxelib/haxelib.sh /usr/bin/haxelib
chmod +x /usr/bin/haxelib

For detailed instructions for your OS just checkout the link to the Haxe.org site.

Skial Bainn: Haxe Roundup 148

matthewswallace — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:31:04 -0500

Skial Bainn: Haxe Roundup 148:

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The Haxe RC2 seems to have silently been released. You can check changes.txt for the newness.

But the biggest change is that the haxelib reset has taken place, but no one should have really noticed as Jason and Juraj have done an awesome job making the change seamless.

With WWX2013 in 2 weeks, you can checkout who’s speaking and their topics.

Vision Mobile released a report titled Cross-Platform Tools Shootout, comparing Sencha, Appcelerator and others, with Haxe “as [the] clear winner”.

With live coding getting a lot of attention recently, with Light Table and Code Orchestra, David Peek has created a proof of concept live code editing in Haxe - Video.

Andrew has written about NME and Haxe called NME Tile Rendering for Mobile. An incredibly well written post.

Chrome packaged apps recently came out of developer preview, so Tong has already written type definitions for Haxe.

Porter has written his “first article in [his] learning HaxePunk series”.

And I’ll finish with a crazy game called MOSHIMOSHI created with HaxeFlixel. Checkout the gameplay video by Eurogamer to see what it’s about.

ImageMagick and rmagic install HELL

matthewswallace — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:02:00 -0500

I’m mainly writing this post for myself because like so many before me that are running OS X / Rails environment …… Installing imagemagick and rmagic gem is pure HELL. Here are the steps that fixed it for me.

1. Install imagemagick via homebrew

brew install imagemagick -f

2. Follow steps for creating symlinks like so. be sure to pay attention to the version number in the cd line of code and change it to whatever version you are currently running.

cd /usr/local/Cellar/imagemagick/6.8.0-10/lib
ln -s libMagick++-Q16.7.dylib   libMagick++.dylib
ln -s libMagickCore-Q16.7.dylib libMagickCore.dylib
ln -s libMagickWand-Q16.7.dylib libMagickWand.dylib

3. Install the gem via the command line with the following code. I made sure I was in the directory of my rails app but I’m not sure if that matters. In my case the rails app needed rmagick version 2.12.2 so I made sure to specify the version number below.

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/imagemagick/6.8.0-10/lib/pkgconfig C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/imagemagick/6.8.0-10/include/ImageMagick gem install rmagick -v '2.12.2'

I know a good IOS / Objective-c developerYep, this is a...

matthewswallace — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:53:00 -0500

I know a good IOS / Objective-c developer

Yep, this is a shameless self promoting post, but hey that’s what my site is for. Rather than getting into technical details about stuff over a series of posts about Objective-C, and things I’m learning about the bla bla bla bla bla technical, bla bla bla, I figured I would just come right out and say it. I’m now looking for and taking on objective-c projects. I’m a couple of weeks away from posting my first completed app to the app store and it’s really exciting to be able to say that.

Recently I took on a project and it was to build an iPad app for NMSU (New Mexico State University). I did my usual “lets build it with Actionscript shpeel” because it’s multi-platform and we can deploy to ios, android, desktop and so on. WELL in this case it worked great until I got to one feature that needed to be native for performance reasons. The application required using some sort of Map api in order to draw polygons. Long story short, there was not a good solution via actionscript that preformed very well aside from building a Native Extension in objective-c. The application slowed to a crawl and even crashed sometimes when asking it to draw some of these complex shapes on an actual iPad.

I took the opportunity to create the exact same app using Objective-C. This of course allowed me to use the built in MapView that comes with iOS. Needless to say it preformed perfectly and the client is super happy with the performance. Recoding took around 2-3 weeks and wasn’t really that difficult. It was just a matter of me understanding some of the fundamental differences in the syntax but honestly now that I’m a month or so in I’m enjoying Objective-C and looking forward to doing more work with it.

So, if you are looking for an Objective-C developer, look no further than right here.

Contact: Matthew Wallace
m: 615-400-4773
e:m at mattwallace.me

Venueblast makes the cut for Spark Nashville |...

matthewswallace — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:09:00 -0600

Venueblast makes the cut for Spark Nashville | SouthernAlpha

Many of you may or may not know that I have been working on a project for the past couple of years in my spare time. I’ve been reluctant to call it a “Startup” just because it was me and Co-Founder Phillip Maddox bootstrapping our ideas together in our spare time and we never really went out and sought funding. We wanted to build some prototypes first to see if we really felt like we had something worth building.

Well THIS IS THE YEAR. Venueblast is seeking funding. We submitted our latest pitch deck to Spark Nashville and was accepted to pitch along with 9 other Startups. We are really excited to talk about our ideas for Venueblast in the Nashville community, and do what we have always done: Put our ideas in a platform or piece of software that consumers and businesses can enjoy and use.

If you are interested in hearing more about Venueblast please come to Spark Nashville or feel free to reach out to Phillip Maddox or Me and we will be glad to meet with you if you are as excited about our platform as we are.

Spark is quickly approaching and SouthernAlpha has carefully selected and finalized 10 teams that will be competing in Pitch, a contest with a $1,000 prize for the best startup in the area. Judges for Spark Nashville include Vic Gatto, Michael Burcham, Christopher Rand, Byron Smith, Landon Gibbs, and Joe Cook, as well as an audience vote for a people’s choice giving teams a chance to win an iPad.

The teams are as follows:

Everly
Everly is a socially responsible startup that creates drink powders by blending natural ingredients to provide a healthy hydration system for those with limited access to nutrients and clean water. http://www.goeverly.com/

GreenPal
Greenpal is a startup out of Murfreesboro started by several veteran entrepreneurs. These crazy guys have come up with solution that enables users to order lawncare services right from their computer or smartphone. Check out a video on their website to learn more. http://yourgreenpal.com/

GameWisp
This startup is what happens when you put a couple Vanderbilt Ph.D students with a passion for video games together. They’re preparing to launch an application that is somewhat like a dropbox for video games. Signup to be part of their beta here http://gamewisp.com/

Sucratrend
Sucratrend is a frictionless glucose tracking tool for diabetics across all demographics, with a focus on simplifying tracking, reminding when measurements are due and auto compiling trending reports which allow diabetics to react accordingly and better interact with their medical providers.https://sucratrend.com/

PictureBooth
PictureBooth creates interactive social media content for brands and events through the use of custom photo booths. They are focused on high quality content that not only benefits the brand; but also the user. www.picturebooth.co

VenueBlast
Venueblast is a live event platform that is mainly centered around video content. Tools and features of the platform include virtual event attendance, easily deployed marketing, microanaylitics for video, and crowdsourced content. http://venueblast.com/

DineTouch
DineTouch is a mobile application that allows a restaurant’s guests to order and pay on their smartphone directly from their table. With DineTouch, guests have access to ordering off the menu and paying with server interaction when they need it. http://dinetouch.com/

PT Kinect
PT Kinect is designed to help physical therapists actively engage, monitor, and assist their patients by utilizing emerging video technology.

Listen Up
Listen Up helps artists monetize their fan base through streaming music platforms such as Spotify and Pandora. Fans provide data to the app and in return, fans get rewarded for the information they provide to artists. Listen Up is a great platform to find new music as well. http://beta.listenup.fm/signup

WaffleMe

WaffleMe is a social media aggregator that combines information from each social network into one place. With WaffleMe, users can quickly see what their friends are doing on any social platform at any given time. The system’s simple interface and brilliant visual design sets it apart from every other content management system. It also provides valuable information and data from others that is much easier to track using the platform. http://waffleme.com/

via southernalpha.com