Interview on Building Browsergames

There’s a short interview with me up on Building Browsergames. I think it’s a promising site that’s geared towards helping out develoepers who are interested in building their own games like Forumwarz. (I’ve also agreed to do a Forumwarz “Post-Mortem” for them. It should be live shortly and I’ll probably cross-post/link it on this blog too.)

February 15, 2009 · 1 min · eviltrout

Flood Detection, Rails and Memcached.

Note: The article is about the code behind Forumwarz for those who are interested in such things. If people like it I might write more like it! Flooding is what happens when a user submits data repeatedly to your server. A good example would be a user who repeatedly posts comments on your message board. Sometimes it’s done innocently: a user hits the submit button 5 times impatiently during a bit of server lag, only to find their post went through 5 times. ...

April 16, 2008 · 4 min · eviltrout