Running an online sim league often feels like unpaid IT support. In Part 2 of the Road to 1.0 series, I break down how SimLeaguesPro is rebuilding league hosting, commissioner tools, cloud report hosting, and team export tracking from the ground up. Continue Reading
If you’ve ever run an OOTP online league, you know the challenge: forums for recruiting, Discord for communication, FTP for league files, and multiple disconnected tools to hold everything together. SimLeaguesPro is a new online sim league platform built to bring league hosting, commissioner tools, fantasy leagues, recruitment, and community features into one connected experience. In Part 1 of the “Road to 1.0” series, longtime commissioner and developer Jeff Fox shares the story behind the platform, the problems it aims to solve, and the vision for the future of online sim leagues. Continue Reading
A real-world look at rebuilding and launching a modern web ecosystem—moving from legacy servers and outdated code to a streamlined, cloud-based platform. This final part of the series highlights the live sites, lessons learned, and what comes next. Continue Reading
I’m excited today to announce the release of my latest open-source web development project Foxtrot, a digital cryptocurrency wallet application built upon the MEAN stack. It uses Angular for the front-end and NodeJs and Express for the backend. Foxtrot is a… Continue Reading
Having written a post about 5 reasons to love Backbone JS and owing to the huge debate that exists between that and the Google owned Angular JS framework, I thought it only fair that I review and post 5 reasons… Continue Reading
PHP 5.4 has been percolating the web now for a few months and I wanted to dive in deep and understand what the big changes are for my longtime favorite coding language. I do like java a lot and Ruby… Continue Reading
A short overview of how to set up Eclipse to utilize Ant build scripts to compile ActionScript 3 AsDocs using the Flex SDK Continue Reading
The second part of Lesson One dives into adding visual elements to the virtual Pages within the FoxR architecture and introduces adding copy and css styles via the GlobalProxyManager and it’s subclasses. Continue Reading
For the first FoxR tutorial, we’ll start with downloading and installing both the framework and the Quick Start Project Template using both to creating an advanced “Hello World” movie. I say advanced because the Project Template includes everything you’ll need to get a compiling project setup fast, including the standard “Hello World” message. Continue Reading
I came across this article browsing for PureMvc info the other day on Active Tuts Plus. It is an excellent walk through of the PureMVC implementation for AS3. It takes you from soup to nuts to build a working Flikr… Continue Reading