Comments on: When FarmVille == Productivity

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:03:56 +0000

@Eric: The project is still being maintained from time to time, but I haven’t yet decided on a release plan. I want to monetize the project somehow since it’s taken many, many hours of my life to produce, but I’m still trying to figure out the best way to do that.

By: Eric Harrison

Eric Harrison — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:18:26 +0000

WOW that sounded like an ambitious project to undertake. But as you said, with the constant tweaking with the code by Facebook and Zynga, it can be hard to dedicate time to stay active with the changing source code.

Wondering if you ever went ahead with this or if it’s still on the backburner?

All the best for the future either way!

Eric Harrison

By: SLaks

SLaks — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:29:09 +0000

Why do you think that System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection isn’t meant to be derived?

MSDN says,

This base class is provided to make it easier for implementers to create a generic read-only custom collection. Implementers are encouraged to extend this base class instead of creating their own.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:38:47 +0000

@Sorin: The project is currently on hiatus as I have lost interest. Unfortunately, Facebook/Zynga change things up on a routine basis, so the old source code that I do have probably needs to be tweaked. I am looking at the possibility of resurrecting the client and offering it as a subscription service (something really cheap, but recurring monthly) since it does take quite a bit of effort to maintain the client.

By: Sorin Eduard

Sorin Eduard — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:22:46 +0000

Hello, Chris.
I was searching for a client for FarmVille and I was happy to have found your website. But as I read on, I found out that the client is not yet released.
I don’t know anything about programming, so the AMF streams you shared there are pretty useless to me.
Any news about the release of the client?
Or any other way of sharing it?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:41:25 +0000

That’s certainly a strong possibility, Jon. Looks like our toolkits have a lot of the same goals. My Collections namespace is quite a bit different than yours (e.g. ReadOnlyDictionary inherits ReadOnlyCollection>) but I’m sure we can still merge successfully. I’ll work on putting my code up today and we can go from there.

By: Jonathan Pryor

Jonathan Pryor — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:03:53 +0000

By any chance, would you like to merge your toolkit with Cadenza?

http://gitorious.org/cadenza

It’s MIT/X11 licensed, and already contains many of the types you listed (e.g. ReadOnlyDictionary, IEnumerable.Walk {though it’s called .Apply() in Cadenza}, etc.), your Reflection extension methods, etc.

I’d love to get more contributors involved.

By: Foole

Foole — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:30:33 +0000

Thanks, Chris.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:28:21 +0000

Currently the client is available by invitation only. Foole, the source for the client will probably not be released since I am considering selling the client after doing some market research.

The AMF/AMF3 library I wrote to enable serialization and deserialization of AMF streams is, however, free software: http://gitorious.org/amf/amf

By: Foole

Foole — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:52:39 +0000

I’d love to learn more about your Farmville client. Any plans to release it/the source?