flaminglunchbox

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Funding Open Source with Kickstarter(flaminglunchbox.posterous.com)
2 points by flaminglunchbox 15y ago|0 comments
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Reflections on Using Kickstarter for Open Source Projects(flaminglunchbox.posterous.com)
1 points by flaminglunchbox 15y ago|0 comments
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
I was planning on sending postcards internationally to anyone I could... even if it cost a fair chunk of the pledge. The plan for the forums is to use them not only for discussion but also to vote on direction and cosmetic issues (name, log
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
There's no planned SaaS component to this. It should primarily all be client-side and interface with established SaaS systems instead of requiring its own.
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
That is the goal. So much of the functionality is already present in the browser. We can use the browser's Javascript interpreter, tabs, web connectivity, etc. We just have to put these together to create the core. To answer your other
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
The way you can tell an idea's time has come is that it starts showing up everywhere. ;-)
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
The idea is that if a company wants to reserve the right to customize, commercialize and close the code they can... but only by supporting the completely open version first.
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
Yeah, there isn't a very good interface between the events passed to Javascript and IMEs yet... and this causes the headaches with non US/EU input. I had the hidden text field method down as a last ditch workaround. I do plan on learning a
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
I'm hoping to at least make this into something that can grow into something like emacs. There is already Ymacs, though it's not a complete solution at the moment.
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
That man is tough to compete with ;-)
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
Browser support is hit and miss. I'm gambling that it will be much better supported in browsers 6 months from now. The advantage is that it allows the smoothing of all the rough edges normally found in editors. Quick zooming to arbitrary
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
There are some. Bespin is now merged into ace and cloud9 is the actual full-featured (has someplace to save without further integeration) implementation. And cloud9 is sadly not free for non open source projects. I find that they aren't
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
I'm going to be looking very carefully at Bespin, Ace, CodeMirror and Ymacs. Not sure which, if any, pieces I'll be able to reuse... especially since I'm hoping to move to webGL where appropriate. But I am not going to blindly rewrite pie
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
Agreed. DOM rendering support has gotten really good over the past year. I want to try a different approach that will make everything seem smoother. Also, since with this sort of text editor you want everything to be aligned in a grid th
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
It's tough enough making money as an independent developer as is. I really can't afford to work on this as a side project. As for the pie-in-the-sky... reuse as much as possible. With the exception of GPU acceleration everything exists a
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
Yeah, Bespin was trying a similar approach with regards to rendering. They had a lot more baggage (server side code, workarounds for issues that have now been resolved) that is no longer necessary. They've now merged into Ace though and t
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
Vim, but there's no reason to start that discussion here. ;-)
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by flaminglunchbox 15y ago
GPL was chosen in this case as it was the best way for us to maintain control and fund this as a startup. That final pledge tier wouldn't exist otherwise. As we're trying to do this without large amounts of financial backing it would be d
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Kickstarter for an Open Source Programmer's Text Editor using HTML5(kickstarter.com)
78 points by flaminglunchbox 15y ago|52 comments
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Curvy: A puzzle game implemented in HTML5(flaminglunchbox.net)
3 points by flaminglunchbox 15y ago|0 comments