Vienna + PHP (source code) + iUI

Source posted! BSD License. From the README:

You'll need to do a few things to get this working:

1. Move the extracted vienna directory to /Library/WebServer/Documents
2. Download iUI (http://code.google.com/p/iui/) and put the main iui directory into the extracted vienna/ directory
3a. Setup a cron job to copy ~/Library/Application Support/Vienna/messages.db to the extracted vienna/ directory
3b. For the adventurous: mv ~/Library/Application Support/Vienna/messages.db to the extracted vienna/ directory and sym-link it back to ~/Library/Application Support/Vienna/
4. Make sure to enable web sharing
5. Go to (your computer's name).local/vienna

Vienna + PHP + iUI

So, sick of not having the ability to feed my XML addiction when away from my machine, I took an hour this morning and hacked together a quick'n'dirty iPhone/iPod Touch UI for my Vienna database using MacOS 10.5's standard PHP (with SQLite PDO), iui, and my Vienna database (stored in sqlite3). I gave it read-only access to the database, partly so I wouldn't have to worry about screwing it up, partly because I didn't feel like bothering just yet. I just need to add a "Mark Read" button to make an Ajax call.

I'll ask the Vienna devs if they'd like a copy of the source to toy with and generally improve, since I blatantly stole reused Joe Hewitt's design and markup for iui-enabled Digg.

Note: though my uploaded demo does pull from a copied Vienna database, it does not pull from a live one, since I wrote the code to run on a desktop MacOS 10.5 machine and not a Linux server. I then just made a bookmark on my iPod Touch to my iMac on the local network.

Announcing Universe Conflict!

Posted to the new project space on SourceForge.net:

An implementation of Space War!, one of the first digital computer games, created in 1961 on the PDP-1 computer, as recreated using the <canvas> HTML5 element and Ajax. It uses the Frozen Toolkit for the client-server communication and currently renders all images and animation using canvas and JavaScript objects.

I had always intended to release this as an open source project, but then realized that I didn't really have the full time to dedicate to it. It also currently exists more as sample code and an interactive demo than anything else, and I figured I should just post it for all to see and hopefully for some to contribute. I initially posted the introduction to it on my blog.

The client-side of this game currently works in Firefox and Opera, though gravity and shooting do not yet exist. The server-side of this currently works insofar as the absolute minimum required to send messages from one browser to the other in order for the two players to fly around each other.

At any rate, check out the code (svn co https://@webspacewar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/webspacewar), play around with it, and feel free to submit patches! :-) I would love to see this completed and fully playable. "Space War!" doesn't have a lot of (base) rules, so it shouldn't take much to get there.

Edit: I've also finally, finally checked in the source code for a link checker I started...oh, I think back in 2002... I created the Cocoa/WebKit branch in order to do two things:

1. Learn Objective-C and Cocoa
2. Use the Cocoa/WebKit API in order to take care of the HTTP handling