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Just wanted to say "hi" before posting anything else here.

This forum appears move rather slowly, but I see some quality discussions covering interesting topics. Ever since 1997 I've had a fascination with JavaScript & DHTML and making possible what seemed impossible through a normal web browser. In those dyas, everything had to be specially coded to hadle Netscape OR IE, or if you were [i]really[i] clever, special code to handle both. I recall becoming frustrated at one point with memory leaks and poor object handling under IE to the point of giving up trying to put together very simple games like Tetris.

Just recently I decided to take another look to see how things have progressed and was greeted with the "mooncheese" demo. I find the effects impressive enough to consider giving it another try. Having gone through and examined the code that you all have put into this DHTML forum here on Asylum, I figure y'all would be the right people to discuss some of the trickier topics with - so here I am!

Without cutting & pasting my resume here, my background is in software engineering which I do professionally and I'm 30y/old and live in the Silicon Valley in the heart of California. I have used about every programming language under the sun which I tend to master before moving on to the next thing. I started with BASIC -> Pascal -> 80x86 assembly language -> C -> C++ -> Java -> Perl -> PHP -> JavaScript. And after 16 years on that circuit, here I am Presently I work mostly in web development, but code anything and everything right down to device drivers.

After my bad early experience with javascript, I mentally branded it as "unreliable" and didn't return to using it for years. A few months back I wrote a small accounting package for a client which needed to have a FAST web-based interface. My solution was 2% PHP, 2% CSS, and 96% JavaScript. I was quite pleased with the results and was able to make it work on FireFox AND IE with enough reliability that my interest in using JavaScript for less mundane things has been re-kindled.

Poi - I love your Shadow Of The Beast example and the texture generator - neat tricks!

I'm trying to decide if I should put something together for the January contest here - clever format! Last competition I entered was years ago and was a 256byte assembly language compo on EFNet IRC's #coders.

So anyway, "HI!" and I'll see y'all around here.

-SK

(Edited by esskay on 01-16-2005 03:14)

Welcome in the Asylum!

It's nice to see some new and motivated inmates. If you don't already know, shingebis ( aka gasman/hooy-program on ZX spectrum ), the author of MoonCheese is wandering here too. Since you mentionned your participation to a 256b compo, you should be interrested by 256b.com and the 256b.htm compos.

Glad you enjoy my little scripts.
Have a nice stay.

"What poi said!"

I think it's neat that you come from an apps-type (C/C++/Java) background and are still interested in the client-side; mind you, guys like poi and a lot of the other crazy inmates on this forum are also into writing some pretty impressive Java code as well (and "demo scene"-type apps) - I think regardless of the language, people just like doing neat stuff with code.

This forum has some talented and insane (hence the name) developers, and I've learned some pretty neat things just hanging out here and talking with poi, wrayal, bugimus and others over the past few years. I like to say it's all Doc Ozone's fault for getting me hooked on Javascript way back in 1996-97, but it's a good kind of blame.. I don't think I'd be writing this now if it weren't for him.

Apparently 2005 is the "year of the DOM" - so with that in mind, welcome to the Asylum!

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Scott said:
... regardless of the language, people just like doing neat stuff with code...

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I'd say that is about as accurate an assessment as possible!

-SK

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

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InI said:

About the forum, just beware, it's reallyreally addictive: if you're
married, consider getting your wife to subscribe in order to stay in
touch...

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Quote of the year!

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InI said:

I don't know how or why, but this forum currently gathers some of the best javascript pioneers
on the whole wide web. The fact it is an independent community makes for spontaneous magic,
so I have to stress the "enjoy your stay" part of the general message.

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I have to agree. Nowhere have I met another bunch of such talented individuals, Enjoy yourself here, SK, learn and teach.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

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Iron Wallaby said:
learn and teach

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Oh, it reminds me that I promised ( at least to myself ) to make a tutorial about my 20 lines Shadow Of The Beast entry as soon as possible. I'm working on my website at the moment, but I'll try to throw that tutorial ( a grand premiere for me ) within few days.