Lanny McNie

As the dev mgr, Lanny oversees the technical day-to-day details of production and makes sure things get out the door.

April 18, 2016April 15, 2016 by Lanny McNie

Explaining Patterns and Matches in RegExr

Announcements, Code, Internet Technology, open source, Tools
matches, pattern, regex, regexp, regexr
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RegExr 2.0 was released a little over 2 years ago. If you haven’t used it, it is a great way to test, preview, and share Regular Expressions. We’re committed to updating and improving RegExr, and in January we quietly pushed out some features to help inspect and explain patterns.

Check out RegExr here.

The New “Tools” Bar

Initially, RegExr only had one tool, the “substitution” panel, which let users show sample text with matches substituted using an expression. It was hidden by default, unless a pattern included a substitution expression. This tool has been renamed “replace”, and is now part of a larger “tools” bar, which we hope to continue growing in the future. In the meantime, it has a few other useful tools that I’ll describe below in more detail. Continue reading →

April 8, 2016April 12, 2019 by Lanny McNie

10 Reasons to Work at gskinner

Announcements, Company, Jobs
company, hiring, job

We are hiring! Are you a designer or developer in Edmonton looking for some new challenges? Check out our careers page (or this specific posting) for more info about available positions and how to apply. We would love to hear from you!
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August 4, 2015March 9, 2016 by Lanny McNie

The Dragon Age ISS

Announcements, Company, Games, HTML
animation, bioware, CreateJS, dragon age, html5, iss, JavaScript, pulp

In 2014, we worked with BioWare to create the ISS: an interactive, animated cinematic of a player’s history in the first two games of the Dragon Age series, narrated by one of the characters, Varric.

When we first met with BioWare’s online team to discuss the Interactive Story Summary, we were floored. It’s always a privilege to work with one of the best game development companies in the world, and the ISS presented a challenge that was perfectly suited with some of the tech we have been focused on for the last few years. The goal of the ISS is to summarize the complex narrative and decisions that players have made in previous games in the series, and give them control of those choices leading into their latest chapter, Dragon Age: Inquisition.

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April 23, 2015April 23, 2015 by Lanny McNie

Technitone.com is back!

Announcements, Company, HTML, Internet Technology, Javascript
music, sound, technitone, threejs, web audio, webaudio, webgl
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Create Music with Technitone (again!)

In 2011, we worked with Google on a Chrome experiment to demo the then-new Web Audio API. Although we were only tasked with coming up with something that could show the new audio features, our (often-excitable) team came up with a project that pushed our capabilities in a ton of technologies, including WebGL, Canvas, web sockets for multi-player, and CSS animations. For a great technical dive into the original Technitone.com we launched with, check out the html5rocks.com article!