When something bugs me that I can't put my finger on, there's usually a contradiction that I'm not seeing. After a few talks, articles and conversations, it seems pretty obvious: it puts JavaScript on a pedestal, even as it makes it irrelevant.
Drawing isometric boxes in the correct orderIn an isometric display, it can be tricky to draw boxes of various sizes in the correct order to keep them appropriately in front of or behind one another. The figure below shows an example. The blue box should be drawn first, then green, then red.
String types are fine. How about your code?Someone on the internet says that strings are broken, and some more people on the internet disagree.
Fixing frequent freezing of Wasteland 1 when using mouseUPDATE: According to inXile this fix will probably be incoporated into the next patch. UPDATE2: This has been incorporated into patch 2.
The string type is brokenMy previous article, “We don’t need a string type“, caused a bit of stir. Though the feedback is mixed, there is a common theme of a string being a useful feature. After doing a bit more research I can determine only one thing: most current string types are broken!
Is WCF Redundant?It’s funny, when alternative technologies comes out that do a similar thing to a previous technology, people are very quick to pronounce the previous technology as dead.
The Google Geocoding APIGeocoding is the process of converting addresses (like "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA") into geographic coordinates (like latitude 37.423021 and longitude -122.083739), which you can use to place markers or position the map.
Ocean Wave SimulationThe simulation is written in javascript and visualized using HTML5 canvas using the Marching Squares algorithm. The algorithm should be pretty common, but I failed to Google a name for it.
The Dirty Secret Behind the Salesforce $1M HackathonA month ago, Salesforce announced that this year’s Dreamforce, their big splashy annual conference, was going to feature a hackathon with the biggest single prize ever—a cool $1 million dollars in cash. I didn’t think twice about the news.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.