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serickson | 11 years ago | on: A Programming War Between 545 Wizards

Come find us on our public hipchat room:

http://www.hipchat.com/g3plnOKqa

We're on all the time that we're working (though we may often be afk hacking away on the site/business). There you'll also often find the people who wrote the parsers we have, but mainly you'll want to chat with Nick Winter, who wrote Aether.

https://github.com/codecombat/aether

serickson | 12 years ago | on: We've Open-Sourced Everything

They're in the DB to keep the repository lean and mean. But they're also licensed under CC. You can find 'em here:

http://codecombat.com/editor/thang

They're in a custom JSON-vector format, and the app turns them into sprite sheets in the code.

Brunch is pretty awesome, by the way. We chose it because it only compiles the files that have changed, which is good because it takes at least 15 seconds to compile the whole app on a fast machine.

serickson | 12 years ago | on: We've Open-Sourced Everything

Also, just want to point out the CLA specifies contributed content is still owned by the creator, but we're also granted the right to distribute and license it on our end. So creators can always do what they want with their content.

serickson | 12 years ago | on: Beat This Level, Get A Programming Job

We're not sure ourselves; we're testing the waters with this level to find out exactly that. And if it looks like this monetization strategy has legs, we'll aim to expand what we can provide to companies so we can be more compelling.

We'll be interested to hear what others think about this too!

serickson | 12 years ago | on: 180,000 Child Programmers Versus 44 Ogres

Sorry for that, must have missed it! Send us an email at [email protected] for support; none of us are very good at Twitter.

serickson | 12 years ago | on: 180,000 Child Programmers Versus 44 Ogres

It's on the list!

serickson | 12 years ago | on: The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse

We're planning on open sourcing the whole site in the future anyway, so you'll be able to get your hands on it directly soon enough!

serickson | 12 years ago | on: The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse

Yes, but because so much was getting shifted around and refactored and added. I don't think any more bugs were introduced than if he'd done the work over a two or three week period. He spent a good portion of that week refactoring a particularly old and central piece of code, and he spent the better part of the weekend fixing bugs both old and new. So overall I believe we're ahead.

serickson | 12 years ago | on: The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse

He will. And I will. I've worked with him for years and while our code is not the best code, we do strive to make it maintainable. Especially for a large project like this that we'd like to build a community of coders around.

serickson | 12 years ago | on: The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse

Not yet.