Which HTML5? - WHATWG and W3C Split

I just came across an article that is going to make my future web work that much more difficult: Which HTML5? - WHATWG and W3C Split. Just when the browsers were getting closer to being on the same page, this shits happens. Rrrrr!

Gone Digital: My Dragon eats my Asura

So this past weekend was the final beta weekend for Guild Wars 2. It was also the first time during open beta that the asura and the sylvari (and their respective starting areas) have been playable. I have been waiting for the asura since they were announced as a playable race.

After updating the client Friday night, I jumped on to make my asura. I rather quickly went through the character creation process and hence Talsen was born. He ran around talking to NPCs and exploring his world. He helped out a couple people in need (i.e. quests). Then about 15 to 20 minutes in, something that had been creeping around the back of my mind burst through to the front: my Dragon wanted to be played. It was with only slight reluctance that I logged out of GW and started up Secret World. I say slight because even though I have waiting a long time to finally play an asura, the character was only going to be around for the weekend then wiped. I figured that my time would be better spent on a live character then a temporary one.

So the rest of the night saw Raszagal running around with some of her companions (can't say friends since they're Illuminati). We ended the night after several sound defeats by the boss of the Darkness Wars dungeon.

Gone Digital: Off the Island

I finished the main story line for Solomon Island (SI) last night. The last tier was pretty interesting. It was the first real branching point that I've seen in the game so far. Being a huge HP Lovecraft fan, I've loved the whole Lovecraftian atmosphere of the island, and the main story dealt with it quite well. I was really torn between the two options I had at the finale but ended up choosing the one that fit my character's outlook.

I have only repeated 3 or 4 missions so far and then only to get enough xp to open up the next Dragon mission. I plan on work on it tonight then heading back to SI and finishing off the few remaining missions (that I know of). I will also most likely run through Darkness War (the Blue Mountain instance) several times to try and get better gear before I head to the next main area, Egypt I think.

Dive Into: Node.js et al, Part 2

Well, since Connect (and hence Express) removed the compiler function sometime after the tut I was using, Sass is not wanting to play nice with Express. And since I was not able to find a replacement middleware module easily, Sass has been replaced in my project with Stylus.

Other then that, things are proceeding nicely with the learning.

Dive Into: Node.js et al

So, Monday I started my latest new endeavor: learning node.js and some of its associated libraries. This foray is an extension of my main endeavor: creating a multi-user interaction site. The current overall project is for the kingdom building parts of my Kingmaker campaign. The present iteration of the builder is mostly done (80%). The kingdom map part done, but the district building has only just begun (5%).

The various libraries I'm trying out are Node.js, Nowjs, Express, Jade, CouchDB, and Sass (maybe). One of the starting points for learning all of this was this example app and the one mentioned in the article. Between these two examples and by watching some tuts on YouTube, I had a decent basis for starting. So, we'll see how things go.