Seb Lee-Delisle
Haven’t most April fools jokes got a bit silly lately? They’re more just funny than actually fooling you. This year, I thought I’d raise the bar with a completely fake MMO Asteroids, but I could never imagine so many of you would be taken in. I’m so sorry. It all started around a year ago. […]
I’ve had my eye on Node.js for a while now so I jumped at the chance to attend Remy’s excellent workshop a couple of weeks ago. Most people associate node with websockets but actually node is a hugely versatile platform capable of running powerful servers and web-apps. That said, anyone who knows me will know […]
So after last time, I thought I’d given ElectroServer more memory, but it turns out I hadn’t. I’m not exactly sure why, but I suspect it’s something about how Media Temple is set up. So rather than call the main ElectroServer app (which is just a shell script), I’m opening the ElectroServer jar file, and […]
I suddenly started getting a really weird error from Flash when trying to connect to ElectroServer : Error #2044: Unhandled securityError:. text=Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: //games.seblee.me/moonlander/MoonLanderViewer.swf cannot load data from 72.47.193.154:9899. I posted to the ElectroServer forums and quick as a flash, Teresa got back to me – apparently ElectroServer was running out of […]
Anyone playing my Lunar Lander game won’t know it, but we’re spying on them! The game gets around 20,000 hits a month, which is very roughly one a minute or so, so I thought it’d be the perfect vehicle to test out some real-time gaming techniques. I’ve replaced the original game with one that transmits […]
As there has been a lot of interesting talk on my recent live chat example I thought it’d be nice to actually see what you’ve been saying! So I checked out the Logging Chat By Room tutorial on the ElectroServer wiki. After some minor tweaks I got the Java extension compiled (the methods should not […]
I’ve just converted the code from the Simple Chat Tutorial on the ElectroServer wiki into Flex and I thought it may be useful to someone. Here’s what it looks like, and it’s connecting to an ES4 install with only 20 connections so forgive me if you can’t connect : [content no longer available, sorry] Here’s […]
Further news to report on my ElectroServer adventures! I’ve now got an ES4 installation up and running on a MediaTemple Dedicated Virtual server. It was actually pretty easy too, thanks to this tutorial from Greg Sidbury. I had no problems following although there are a couple of bits that confused me. The first was that […]
[This post is obsolete – ElectroServer doesn’t seem to exist any more] What else to do in the Christmas holidays but finally get my head around ElectroServer? 🙂 Of course the first (sometimes significant) hurdle in getting started with any multi-user technology is just installing the server on your machine! ElectroServer4 (ES4) is Java based […]