Microsoft has just unveiled TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like language that compiles to regular JavaScript. It adds a lot of syntactical features to the platform, many of them coming from the ECMAScript 6 (“Harmony”) proposals. It has the pedigree to be great – as Mark Rendle wrote: It’s been known for some time that Anders Hejlsberg […]
Continue reading →I’ve finally redesigned this website’s WordPress theme. Can you believe the old one was already 4 years old? It’s a much simpler design, now – less clutter, more focused on a pleasant reading experience (the content is still the same, though, so don’t get your hopes up). I’ve designed and coded the themes I’ve used in […]
Continue reading →In some ways, I was never a very good student. When I was around 12 years old, one of the biggest problems I had in school was that I would always forget when home work was due, or days we had tests. I remember I’d arrive at school and my friends would ask me if […]
Continue reading →Developers: Ludum Dare, the 48-hour videogame development competition, starts today at 9PM EST when the theme for this weekend-long game hackathon is announced. I will be taking part of this fun contest for the first time, streaming the development process live at a Twitch.TV channel. I’ve wrote a few posts about what I plan on […]
Continue reading →Git. The trendy source control management system. Like many other of my peers, I’ve been using GitHub for a while (for personal projects, in my case). For the longest time, however, I felt like the only person in the world that didn’t get it; it never felt natural for me, or superior in any way […]
Continue reading →One day I started filling a spreadsheet with all the languages I’ve used over the years (and with percentages of focus on each one) with the intention of creating a chart. It got bigger than I expected. I guess never counted how many platforms I had actually used. The original chart (created in LibreOffice) didn’t […]
Continue reading →Once in a while I find something surprises me by both the fact that it exists and because I’m probably the last person to know about it, hell, why didn’t anyone tell me about this before?!?!?!?. As of recently, this something has been the Game Developer magazine. The Game Developer magazine is a thin little […]
Continue reading →Much is said about the Android platform’s fragmentation problem. However, the fact that there are a lot of politics and conflicts of interest at play creates an echo chamber that is difficult to wade through – especially if you reach articles by websites with an obvious bias. The reality is that fragmentation is a serious […]
Continue reading →One of the most baffling things for me when I started messing around with Android was dealing with XML files, especially parsing them. In Actionscript, parsing a XML is simple enough: var xml:XML = new XML(“<root>Some-stuff</root>”); And you can get children pretty easily using E4X, or the standard syntax. For example, to get a list […]
Continue reading →Multithreading support – the ability to run different blocks of code separately, in parallel – has always been a requested feature in the Flash/ActionScript community (and it’s, indeed, coming). But the reality is, due to the way the platform is designed, reasons to use concurrency in Flash are very rare. I’m sure some exist, but […]
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