Posts categorised as Programming

December 12, 2011

FXAA

Coding Horror’s excellent overview of not only FXAA, but SSAA and MSAA as well.

October 11, 2011

Dart

Google’s new, optionally typed web programming language that can run in a VM or be translated directly to JavaScript.

September 9, 2011

Keymaster.js

Keymaster is a simple (100 LoC or so) micro-library for defining and dispatching keyboard shortcuts. It has no dependencies on any libraries so you can just drop it in your app and it will work, cross-browser.

Thinking of using this on the website.

August 18, 2011

Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby

A side-by-side comparison cheatsheet for scripting languages. Very useful if you’re familiar with one language and wish to learn another.

(via the ever awesome kottke.org)

August 17, 2011

Over ten thousand downloads

It’s been a couple of years since I developed the Most Popular Tags plugin, and I’m extremely happy to announce that it has been downloaded over ten thousand times from the WordPress plugin directory. Special thanks to anyone that’s tried it or, even better, liked it.

PlayStation Vita development kit priced at €1900

Sony has revealed that Vita development kits will cost just €1900 plus VAT, making the upcoming portable a viable proposition to smaller studios.

I really want the Vita to succeed, as it has many things going for it: attractive hardware, especially the addition of a second analogue stick; a competitive price point, helping it to compete with Apple’s and Nintendo’s offerings; and a cheap devkit with which to entice indie developers.