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.
Read full post »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 [...]
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