Some days ago my son asked me how computer games are made. I couldn’t really explain it very well in terms he understood (he’s 5 years old), but I wanted to show it to him. Thus I started working with him on a 2D space shooter written in JavaScript, using the canvas element of HTML5.
Some weeks ago I started working on a new open source software, called bivouac.
bivouac provides an open source software package which allows to easily setup and run web-based group chats with dead-simple file-sharing (drag a file into the chat, and it’s immediately available as a download for all chat members).
Besides these “feature goals”, my secondary [...]
Read full post »Some weeks ago I wrote about deploying Symfony2 Applications to Amazon AWS with Scalarium. It turned out that the described methodology can be refined in several ways. Here’s how.
Read full post »If you set up an OutlineView in Interface Builder and connect your Controller as its dataSource and delegate (and provide the methods there accordingly), you will notice that
- (id)outlineView:(NSOutlineView *)outlineView
objectValueForTableColumn:(NSTableColumn *)tableColumn
byItem:(id)item
never get’s called. The reason might very simple: in Interface Builder, in the attributes inspector for your OutlineView, you can define [...]
Read full post »This here is just me, bragging about myself. You have been warned.
This guy with the psychopathic look standing in a room full of rubbish in front of something that vaguely looks like computers is me standing in front of the first MyHammer server cluster, only days before the whole system went into production.
It was 2005, [...]
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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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