Quote: "I've responded. Took me awhile, I'm not as active as I used to be."
Thanks
I had already decided and had it sorted out and working by then, but the advice is still appreciated.
Quote: "You should if you want to remain relevant in the industry.
One of the tasks at my current job is securing older legacy code. Sorting through someone else's messy code to look for possible openings for XSS or injection."
Yes, unfortunately that is the biggest downfall with this industry, because of the corporate ploy to release innovations in stages rather than all at once.
Like Apple and their bogus phones that come out every few months with a new feature, or the unnecessary and demanding changes to their software that render perfectly working hardware useless just so they can force you into buying a new phone.
Many other companies are doing the same thing now with their phones, like Samsung, and then even Net10.
I like the innovations like
goTenna that are breaking that dependency and finding new ways to use the devices without continually paying through the nose to buy the same device over and over again as if companies like Apple have a desire to manufacture disposable phones.
As far as software for databases, I should not have to learn new technologies that make it harder to secure them, when the old stuff is already rock solid.
Many of the innovations in this industry make things worse, not better, they just want us to believe that it is the way of the future so they can sell you something you don't need. (
what percentage of the major corporation database security hacks are a result of SQL injections?)
There are a few exceptions, like the TGC products that have evolved the BASIC programming language to keep up with hardware changes like AppGameKit Tier 1 for mobile devices.
That is why many of us are here, right?
I argued for years back in the day that BASIC had the ability to do all of the things that the other languages they wanted me to learn could do, but it was a matter of compiling for things to run faster on that limited hardware.
Now we have the best of both worlds and I am still loving my sloppy BASIC code, but the sloppy part has nothing to do with new or old as even the newest technologies can still be coded terribly.
Quote: "The average user, which can still make large use of SQL, will typically not need such features."
Yeah yeah, that's me. The average user who doesn't need it.
Quote: "Neat game, but there are some issues. And this just may be AGK's javascript loading, but the game doesn't always work for me. Sometimes the loading hangs up. Other times, I don't think it loads completely but I can still play. For instance, the score never increase no matter what. The only time the score worked for me was also the only time the sound actually worked."
Looks as if not a lot of people have played yet, but you are the first to report any problems.
I have had to load it many times in testing and never experienced any of the issues you are experiencing.
Perhaps it was a server issue with too much traffic due to everyone being at home and using the internet heavily.
More likely it is the web browser you are using. Which one do you use???
I recommend FireFox because it is open source, and I have had no problems running the AppGameKit HTML5 builds with it.
Lots of people are using the Google browser these days, which I suspect is loaded with spyware for their marketing research and ad customization.
I have turned away from Google after discovering that they are ripping people off of their revenue from their monopolistic attempt to control the Android apps.
Another thing to note about the ethics of their company goes back to their beginnings, when they were using the Alta Vista search engine behind the scene and passing the results off as coming from their own engine which they had not even developed yet.
Yahoo did the same thing when they started out, using Alta Vista's search engine, but at least they had the decency to later buy the company making the engine their own IP.
Everyone one seems to think that Google is some king of the internet company, when actually they are just another dirty playing corporation that only cares about their bottom line.
According to Google, any Android app that doesn't come from their website cannot be trusted, and we know that is not true.
I would bet the trouble is not AppGameKit, but rather the unusually high traffic at my server hosting it, or more likely your browser.
if browser$ <> "FireFox"
browser$ = "FireFox"
firefox$ = "FireFox rocks!"
google$ = "Google Chrome blows chunks."
explorer$ = "Windows Explorer is preferred by hackers wanting to wreak havoc on its users."
endif
Coding things my way since 1981 -- Currently using AppGameKit V2 Tier 1
