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    What's Your Favorite Editor?

    I use komodo edit. It has tons of languages supported, syntax checking (it will put a squiggly red line under bad code), dozens of themes, autocomplete, and is has a lot of other features as well.
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    A few questions on HTML5

    I would recommend learning canvas, which allows you to draw things and will probably be the dominant way to have graphics in HTML5. If you want 3d, learn WebGL. This a quite complex and low-level API, so you might want to check out three.js which is a popular library that makes WebGL much easier...
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    Multiplayer PHP game, real time..

    I am not exactly sure what you mean, but I got a php script that checks a file for changes. When the file changes, it returns the file contents to the client. Whenever it returns, the client reopens a new connection. (I had to do this because PHP is not exactly comet-friendly). Also, if for some...
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    Multiplayer PHP game, real time..

    I was able to get this idea up and running on a shared host. I never made a full-fledged game with it, but I still was able to make a simple chat system with this and it worked smoothly.
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    Multiplayer PHP game, real time..

    It is very possible to make a real-time multiplayer game in PHP, even through http. I'm doing it. A php script can run for an indefinite amount of time (assuming you set_time_limit(0); at the beginning of the script), which makes it possible to have a text file on the server recording all the...
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