The Log Book of Manuel Kießling
The Log Book of Manuel Kießling
Covers topics on architecting, building, deploying and running software and systems for the web based on open source tools with lean methodologies.
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.
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.
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).
Peter Armstrong from Leanpub, where I publish my eBooks, did an interview with me on the experience of releasing The Node Beginner Book on their platform, how bundling books work out, pricing, on learning from each other in the Internet age, and much more.
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.