Some days ago, my son asked me how computer games are made. The result is a simple yet fully-functional 2D space shooter, available on Facebook. Here’s how it’s done.
Read full post »Every now and then, a manager at your company might say something like “We need to work longer” or “Our people need to work longer”.
Here’s why I don’t think it is a good idea to say this.
Writing JavaScript modules that can be seamlessly included in client-side as well as server-side applications, and providing Jasmine test suites which allow to test these modules in a browser environment as well as a Node.js environment is possible without any dirty workarounds.
Read full post »Am 14. März 2012 fand das erste Treffen der Symfony User Group Berlin statt. Ich habe dort einen kurzen Talk mit dem Titel PHP 5.4 – die wichtigsten Neuerungen im Überblick gehalten. Folien und Videomitschnitt des Talks nach dem Klick.
Read full post »Let’s talk about object-orientation and inheritance in JavaScript.
The good news is that it’s actually quite simple, but the bad news is that it works completely different than object-orientation in languages like C++, Java, Ruby, Python or PHP, making it not-quite-so simple to understand.
But fear not, we are going to take it step by step.
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Software gardener, test driven developer in PHP, Rails and JavaScript, Agilist.
Author of NodeBeginner.org. Father of two. CTO at MyHammer.
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