macournoyer

CHIP-8 is pretty fun! Here's one I made in JavaScript w/ debugger: http://greatcodeclub.github.io/chip8/

Code: https://github.com/greatcodeclub/chip8

Pretty sure. The instruction layout is also inspired by Lua: https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/master/src/duk_js_b...

Here's Lua: https://github.com/lua/lua/blob/master/src/lopcodes.h#L13-L2...

When I was getting started with Thin (the Ruby web server), Ezra sent the first few patches, talked about it at confs, used it at his company and helped me debug it on IRC for hours. Only because, he thought it was cool tech. His passion was contagious.

He's the reason why my tiny project became popular and I'm sure many other tech we use today. Thank you Ezra!

Empty file yes. But do you start with an empty/blank project?

It should be launching next week or the next week after that at the latest.

Yes, I will limit the size of the community. The goal is to get a core group of very passionate people first.

Not at all what I had in mind. I want this to be a community and not a course.

But to get there we have to start somewhere. And I know people can bond and form a community better if they work on similar problems, thus the projects.

It will start as a curated program. But my hope is to make it evolve to be both. A place to get knowledge, inspiration and motivation. And then a place to get help and support making your own thing when you're ready.

Mostly what the site says: http://www.greatcodeclub.com/#content

- Screencasts presenting the project, giving the basics and showing solutions.

- Code to get started, full projects and examples.

- A community for help and support.

- I'll also be there supporting and answering questions. I've been teaching other devs online for a few years: http://classes.codedinc.com/

Sort of... but in the bar I'd be there teaching music, how to compose a song and helping you find people to practice and perhaps create your own songs.

Everyone will be working the same project, for eg. a game. I will present the basics of creating a game, give code to get started, etc.

Think of it as a RailsCast/PeepCode but centered around a community.

I have ideas for the first few projects. I'll try to have very diverse ones.

This is not 100% decided atm, but the first project will probably be to implement a HTML5 Canvas game. I'll show how to implement a game loop in JS, but also in other languages. Then, drawing on an HTML canvas or something else is very much alike.

Another project I have in mind is to implement a small compiler/transpiler. Re-implement some UNIX utilities. Perhaps a web framework too...

But I want this to be guided by the community. I'm thinking of having a voting system to let members decided what will be the next project.

Hope this answers your question.

It's for experienced developers who want to code on cool projects on the side.

I will be producing screencasts, articles and supporting ppl in the club. I think there's a value to this. Teaching other developers online is what I do for a living.

Not fixed on the price yet. But yes, most probably.

Not at all. But I'm assuming some knowledge of web development.

For example, one project will be to code an HTML5 game, but you can choose to implement it in C or Java. You'll need to be able to understand JavaScript/HTML to learn from the screencasts that will present the project since I will be using JS and HTML5 canvas.

That's just an example, another project idea I have atm is implementing language or compiler.

I'm the creator of the club. Happy to answer any questions about this. I'm just getting started with this so feedback is very much appreciated :)

I guess it's safe to say that most web dev know JavaScript.

That's why I chose to use it as an example and will also use it to present projects in the club.

Damnit! Just disabled GA tracking. Thanks for spotting that.

There will be a monthly fee to join. I'll try to make it clearer on the page, sorry about that. This is my business, I make a living teaching developers online.

Very cool! But maintaining all those regular expressions will soon be a pain. You need a real lexer and parser :)

I was in a similar position about two years ago. And was determined to bootstrap a "lifestyle" business that would provide income with the specific restriction of not doing consulting ever again.

I reached my goal in the first month: http://macournoyer.com/blog/2011/05/02/working-for-me/ and now have my own biz http://codedinc.com/ that has been profitable and growing ever since while working very few hours.

Some of this I attribute to the reputation and connections I built over the years before that. But also to knowledge I gained reading about marketing and advertising (mostly old books).

I would highly recommend you drop the anonymity. If it's to feel safer, that's not going to work. To bootstrap your biz you have to put your credibility on the line EACH time. Also, any content you create must fuel your authority/credibility.

Shameless self promo: here's a course I created to teach how I launch & sell products http://copywritingforgeeks.com/. But if you have any questions I'd be happy to help, drop me an email at gmail my username.

Good luck!

Wow! OK. I'm the author of this book and I have no idea how it ended up there.

Here's the full product: http://copywritingforgeeks.com/

I don't mind that much if ppl just share the pdf, but asking 10$/month for MY product? WTH is that ...

Yes! At some point I hope to offer non-Rails versions of the themes. But the focus now is to make more themes.

Ooops! It's back.

Very good point! You are totally right. I did hit hard about those points in the emails I sent before launch and they have been very successful. But not on the site yet. Will do that. Thanks for the suggestion.

Your grandmother knows HTML & CSS?

Take a look at http://divshot.com/. Someone pointed me to this today.

Creator of Dresssed here.

You can get much cheaper themes specifically for Bootstrap here: https://wrapbootstrap.com/.

But what I've noticed is that every theme based on Bootstrap is incomplete. Focus of my themes is to provide everything you need to build an app. Re-branding every component was a lot of work and trying to make them not look like Bootstrap was even more work.

Should be fixed now, thx!

Creator of the project here. Thx :) What browser are you on?

(Shameless self-promotion alert! But related)

My current side project is themes for Rails based on Bootstrap, launching next week: http://dresssed.com/. Demo here: http://dresssed.com/tour.

It will require Rails 3.1 or > for the asset pipeline.

Since in Ruby false and nil are the only "falsish" values and everything else is true, their values has been chosen to make a boolean test as efficient as possible. See: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/include/ruby/ruby.h#...

Oops! Indeed

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