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drop factor (aka drop 7)

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:28:46 GMT

Over the winter break, my brother and step-sister were playing a the iPhone game Drop7[1] a lot. Since I own an Android phone, I wasn’t able to play the game on my phone.

So I decided to write the game myself. It’s just a webpage, so you can play if from Safari, Mobile Safari, Chrome, Firefox, or the Android browser. I call it Drop Factor. The game play is based on the hardcore mode of Drop 7.

It’s build using Javascript and canvas (the platform of the future, I’m told). You can grab the source on github.

[1] I think it’s based on the flash game chain factor.

slides from R|P talk

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:42:26 GMT

Here are the slides from my talk. I gave the presentation in Chrome, so the slides may not work in all browsers (the svg syntax may be webkit only).

I think a video will be posted in a few days.

I had a good time at the conference. Thanks to the UIUC ACM chapter for inviting me to talk!

Speaking at Reflections|Projections 2009

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:42:12 GMT

I’ll be at my alma mater to speak at the ACM Reflections|Projections Conference.

I’m going to be telling some stories about Google Chome and how the multiprocess architecture and sandbox lead to some interesting technical problems.

The schedule hasn’t been posted yet, but the conference runs from the evening of Oct 16 to Oct 18. If you’re around, swing by and say hi.

WebKit unforked in Chromium

Fri, 08 May 2009 21:24:15 GMT

As Darin mentioned on chromium-dev, Chromium no longer uses a forked copy of WebKit. We now pull directly from svn.webkit.org and all changes to WebCore will be upstreamed before being pulled into Chromium.

This is great news because

It forces Chromium developers to contribute more to the WebKit project and write better cross platform patches.
Cross platform code in WebCore will get reviewed by WebKit folks.
Updating the version of WebKit that Chromium uses will be easier.

Chromium commits per week

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:32:53 GMT

I’ve been unable to keep up with the weekly summary of Chromium commits since I no longer have a 60 minute commute to work on a bus. Instead, here’s a graph of commits per week.

The tree moves fast.

Last week in Chromium (Mar 9 - Mar 15)

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:56:57 GMT

Support loading extensions into the bookmark toolbar.
[r11294 mpcomplete]
Implement a GTK LocationBarView and Autocomplete{Edit,Popup}View.
[r11323 deanm]
Changes docking in the following ways
[r11391 sky]
Fix horizontal scrolling to not be reversed on tilt wheel mice and old Thinkpads.
[r11395 pkasting]
Stop history search going on beyond the start of history.
[r11411 glen]
Don’t leak visited site information from original profile to OTR profile.
[r11613 abarth]
Fix a crash when with chrome-ui://about/” or anything invalid
[r11634 amit]
This CL fixes issue 8684 — RTL Regression: Text should be right aligned for RTL languages on “Bookmark Manager”
[r11639 xji]
RSS feed support (part 1)
[r11672 finnur]
Disallows dragging from the bookmark bar when the bookmark bar is closed or animating.
[r11687 sky]