Extra Future

Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.

Blog Archives

Month: December 2009

  • Browser Debugging Flowchart

    [This in-depth flow chart could be very helpful for people in IT Departments world-wide][link].

    [link]: http://blog.davebc.com/post/233408442/browser-debugging-flowchart-via-lkm “1FPS Browser Debugging Flowchart via lkm”

  • The Little Things: LinkedIn Forums Edition

    If you, like I, have been spending some time on the [LinkedIn developer forums][dev] trying to hammer their API into something that works for your client, you’ll notice a couple things: 1) Their forums keep you logged in for about 30 seconds per session and 2) Nobody there pays attention to anything. Case in point, the wording that appears beneath *each* forum post, where the “click here to reply” link would appear if you were logged in, which you aren’t because it logged you out after 30 seconds:

    [dev]: http://developer.linkedin.com/community/apis?view=discussions “LinkedIn Developer Community Forums”

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    Keep in mind this appears in *every* forum post, of which there are (as of this writing) thousands. And this isn’t a new thing, it’s been like this for quite some time. Either someone’s asleep, they don’t care, or their software is so gobsmackingly complex it would take more time to change one text string than it is worth. The real question is, though: Who [accidentally][acc] the rest of that sentence?

    [acc]: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally “I Accidentally – Know Your Meme”

  • love2d 0.6.0

    [Released on Dec. 24th][link], great news for small-time game makers.

    [link]: http://love2d.org/ “LÖVE – Free 2D Game Engine”

  • Silent Mode Engaged. See You In 201X.

    Posting will be light-to-non-existent here on EFHQ until around Jan 3nd. Be excellent to each other.

    Thanks to everyone who has ordered [T-Shirts][shirts], I love you all with both my bodymeat and also my headmeat. Shirts should start shipping mid-Jan. You’ll be the coolest kid on your internets.

    [shirts]: http://extrafuture.com/shirts/ “Extra Future Shirts”

  • PHP OAuth for LinkedIn WITHOUT Using PECL or Zend

    Work-related plea: [Has anyone gotten LinkedIn’s API to play nice with PHP5 without the use of the PECL OAuth library or Zend’s?][link]

    To the non-coders here: These are all Things, I promise. I did not make them up.

    [link]: http://developer.linkedin.com/thread/1375?tstart=0 “LinkedIn Developer Network: PHP OAuth WITHOUT Using PECL or Zend?”

  • Wired on the Duke Nukem Forever Saga

    [Death by lack of restraint.][link] [Andy is right][andy], DNF is similar to The Phantom Menace in that they both failed in large part due to the lack of constraints on time and money and “vision” of the creators.

    [link]: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/ “Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem | Magazine”
    [andy]: http://waxy.org “Waxy.org”

  • Give the Gift of Cigarettes this Christmas

    [HINT HINT][link].

    [link]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaORtO4rFoo “YouTube – Give the Gift of Cigarettes this Christmas”

  • There Is No Fold

    [A-fucking-men.][link]

    [link]: http://www.thereisnopagefold.com/ “Please Scroll”

  • 70-Minute Video Review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

    [Okay, this sounds stupid, but my god it is glorious][link]. It is not merely a “derp Phantom Menace sucks derp” thing.

    [link]: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/17/watch-this-70-minute-video-review-of-star-wars-the-phantom-menace/ “Watch This: 70-Minute Video Review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace | /Film”

  • Tumblr Joins WordPress.com In Implementing Twitter API Features

    [The new features][link] allow users to [post and read friends posts][wp] via Twitter clients such as Tweetie and Twitteriffic. This is very clever.

    [link]: http://staff.tumblr.com/post/287703110/api “Tumblr Uses Twitter API”
    [wp]: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/twitter-api/ “WordPress’ Twitter API Demo”