Author Archives: Huge

JavaScript – ready or not.

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Huge

JavaScript Performance There have been some very promising improvements in JavaScript performance, but exactly how good is it? It turns out, that there is a pretty easy way to work this out – thanks to haxe. Haxe allows the same … Continue reading →

Posted in flash, hxcpp, neko, nme, Result | Tagged , , , , , , | 10 Comments

Bravo, Apple

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Huge

Finally, Apple is doing away with those arrogant upstarts who think then can write a few lines in a high level language and call it a program. Their new developer agreement requires: 3.3.1 – Applications may only use Documented APIs … Continue reading →

Posted in flash, hxcpp, iphone | Tagged , , , , , | 135 Comments

3 Years On

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Huge

Wow, has it really been 3 years? 2009 was an interesting year – I guess the big ticket items were haxe for the iPhone and getting hxcpp into the standard distribution for haxe. I am very satisfied with these achievements, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

FastCGI For Neko On Share Hosting

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Huge

In my previous post, I described you could setup neko web services on a shared host, using CGI. This method is not as efficient as it might be because a separate process is required for each request. However it is … Continue reading →

Posted in linux, neko | Tagged , , , , , | 5 Comments

Neko on Shared Hosting

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Huge

Using cgi to create websites using haxe and neko – on cheap shared linux hosting. Continue reading →

Posted in linux, neko | Tagged , , , , | 17 Comments

Quick Update

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Huge

Just a quick update to let you know things are still moving forwards. I have not done very much iPhone specific stuff recently, but I have been working on the graphics code base in general. The idea is to separate … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, neash, nme | 16 Comments

Switched to IMMIX for Internal Garbage Collection

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Huge

I did a little bit of profiling on the iPhone and found a bit too much time was spent doing garbage collection. The hxcpp runtime has 2 modes – “Boehm GC with explicit statics” and “internal”. The former is from … Continue reading →

Posted in hxcpp, iphone | Tagged , , , , | 7 Comments

Haxe, iPhone & C++ At Last

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Huge

Announcing first official release of c++ on haxe, including Widsows, Mac, Linux and iPhone support. Continue reading →

Posted in hxcpp, iphone, neash, nme | Tagged , , , , , | 146 Comments

Haxe on the iPhone – For Real!

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Huge

To progress this project a bit further, I needed a real device – so I convinced the little woman that an iPod touch would be a good thing to have around. She seems to have taken to it, so now … Continue reading →

Posted in hxcpp, iphone, nme | Tagged , , , , , | 24 Comments

A Second Look (iPhone + Haxe)

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Huge

Once the basics are in place, the rest comes pretty naturally. Just a slight tweak to the MovieClip transformation gets Physaxe doing it’s thing. Performace seems ok-ish in the simulator, not sure how it woud go on the real device.

Posted in hxcpp, iphone, nme | Tagged , , , | 9 Comments