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 […]
Continue reading →The first thing that made me pause when working with Java is discovering that it doesn’t have event listeners – at least not in the sense that I’ve come to expect based on my ActionScript experience. In ActionScript 3, you attach an event to an object like so: myObject.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseDown); protected function onMouseDown(e:Event): void { […]
Continue reading →I’m just in the process of finishing the development of an Android application at work. This reminds me that since I’ve been a dedicated Flash developer for more than a decade, switching to a different platform was an interesting challenge, and one worth sharing. Luckily, I saved a lot of notes in the process, and […]
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