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Popfly Game Engine Code on Codeplex

Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:25 PM by johnmont
Though we decommissioned Popfly last Monday, Ben Anderson from the (former) Popfly team worked his magic (along with a lot of help from others, including our legal team) to get the Popfly Game Engine code on Codeplex under the MS-PL. Give it a look. Technorati Read More...
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Does Advertising Guide Content?

Posted Sunday, July 26, 2009 9:25 AM by johnmont
This post started as a collection of thoughts on the AP’s decisions around how they want their content handled on the web. Somehow this lead me to thinking about the FTC’s proposal for guidelines about full disclosure . But as I was writing it, I had Read More...
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Gidget Dead at 15

Posted Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:17 AM by johnmont
Gidget, the chihuahua best known for her role as the Taco Bell dog, has died . While sad news (I grew up with Gidget on TV) I couldn't help but smile at this image: "But, she said, Gidget had been the victim of typecasting, which limited her career choices..." Read More...
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Run Popfly Games Locally

Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:52 PM by johnmont
When I announced that we were closing down Popfly, one of the biggest questions I got was how users could save their content. For the most part, that's not really feasible, but over at Coding4Fun, Dan has posted a link to a tool that was written by two Read More...
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On Popfly and What’s Next

Posted Saturday, July 18, 2009 12:51 PM by johnmont
A couple of years ago , a group of us decided to try something different: to create an online service to help people learn to program. Along the way we learned a lot about operating a large-scale web service, about the interesting legal and privacy situations Read More...
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Enter the Porch

Posted Monday, September 01, 2008 8:51 AM by johnmont
As part of our remodel, considerable work was done on the front porch. Unfortunately, that work didn't include putting up the railings. This weekend has been the weekend for me to replace them. This has involved purchasing 4x6s and 2x4s to create the Read More...
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Popfly Game Creator Beta, or "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges..."

Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 8:21 AM by johnmont
Popfly , which we opened to the public last fall as a web mashup tool, has come a long way. Over the last ten months we launched an add-in for Visual Studio ( Popfly Explorer ) so people could create and open projects on the Popfly site from VS, a lightweight Read More...
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Chocolate. Mmmm. Chocolate.

Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 9:50 AM by johnmont
About a month ago my wife and I attended the Seattle Luxury Chocolate Salon . With a name like that, I had no idea what to expect. When we showed up we paid our $20 admission (<cough>) and walked in. When we arrived, it looked like a miniature version Read More...
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"VS 2008 SP1 Doesn't Patch VS Express"

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:56 AM by johnmont
A customer noted yesterday that the patch for "big VS" (that is, Visual Studio 2008 Standard, Professional, and Visual Studio Team Suite) doesn't patch Visual Studio Express . We did this because of the patch size: in the past Express customers Read More...
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Time to Brag!

Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 2:28 PM by johnmont
Have you created a really cool Popfly project? If so, we want to hear from you! Click here to send us your story and you may be featured on our site! Technorati Tags: Popfly Read More...
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Ten Fun Popfly Games

Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 8:22 AM by johnmont
Created by students. AlfredTh has the list . Technorati Tags: Popfly , Casual Games , Students Read More...
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Adding Your Images to Games

Posted Saturday, July 19, 2008 10:59 AM by johnmont
A coworker who is teaching Popfly to his daughter just asked me, I'm working with my daughter who is working on a game and she wants to import a picture to be an actor. How does she do that? And is there a wiki or other site to get these kinds of answers? Read More...
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Alas Poor Houseplant, We Knew Him

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:30 AM by johnmont
My wife has had a houseplant for the past ten years. It's one of those plants with huge leaves that thrives on being ignored. Despite ridiculous underwatering and one notable experience where we left it in the sun for a couple of days and it started to Read More...
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Introduction to Plumbing

Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:45 PM by johnmont
Plumbing is my least favorite home improvement task. Today I tried to repair the drain in my mom's front bathroom. The pop-up wouldn't go up and down. Based on this and all my previous plumbing experience, I have come up with John's Rule of Plumbing: Read More...
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Running Toilet

Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:02 AM by johnmont
The toilet in the bathroom I was using in my mom's house was running. Not a "jiggle-the-handle" kind of running -- more like an "unstoppable-gallon-an-hour" kind of run. I lived with it for a couple of days, thinking, "If I were Read More...
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