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Skoofoo

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About Skoofoo

I like innovative technology :)

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    Microsoft is trying to monopolize an industry? Stop the presses! I wish Microsoft never entered the video game industry in the first place. They made it worse for everyone for thei…

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    Comment #11107368

    One of my favorite aspects of Ruby is that everything is an object with methods. Adding global operators/functions like this would only complicate the language. > But we also -- pe…

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    Comment #10934092

    Tools don't necessarily become less useful with time.

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    Comment #9535129

    The best guide to Ruby that I've seen is "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide". http://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

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    Ruby is duck-typed, so it is advantageous to write code and tests that are not tied to classes at all. http://www.poodr.com/ goes in-depth about this.

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    Comment #9127252

    SEEKING WORK - remote High-quality custom web apps. Effective interface design, good code w/ Ruby on Rails, emphasis on agility, long-term provision of maintenance. http://bytesofm…

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    Comment #9015010

    You can achieve this effect in any common language with a Makefile.

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    Comment #8194594

    Early on I took a close look at Pixi.js, though it turned out to not be the right fit for the project. However, it is planned for Yeah to have an interchangeable WebGL renderer at …

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    Comment #8194380

    Thank you for the kind words! Great suggestion, I will add all those to the README soon; in the meantime here it is: IRC channel: Freenode #yeahrb Email: skoofoo@gmail.com Issues: …

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    Comment #8194348

    I think that this framework will be ideal for sprints like Ludum Dare. Please do write about any questions, suggestions, issues, and bugs via GitHub issues, or to my personal email…

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    Comment #8194171

    Thanks, I did not catch that before. I hope that the confusion will subside after Yeah becomes more well known.

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    Comment #8194155

    Gosu is a library that provides the basic building blocks for a video game, while Yeah is an opinionated framework designed to be fast to build games with. It is similar to Sinatra…

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    Comment #8193866

    Author here. Make sure to check out the examples and docs! This is alpha-stage software, but there is roughly enough functionality to build a complete modern video game. Please ask…

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    Comment #7934016

    Vienna is a Ruby web front-end framework that looks promising. https://github.com/opal/vienna

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    I thought I knew how to write good Ruby code, but then I read "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby". http://www.poodr.com/