I remain intrigued by the concept of iPhone program development. I think that the iPhone has the potential to make a real impact in the portable gaming market (Touch Arcade is a good source for information about iPhone gaming). Plus, I think that the iPhone is a neat little device and the only cell phone [...]
I was intrigued by this article I saw at itWire: Write your own iPhone apps for fun and profit. Apparently, all it takes to program for the iPhone is to register as a developer with Apple and download the Apple iPhone Software Development Kit. Registration is free, and the SDK contains an iPhone emulator and [...]
People have been buzzing lately with news of the announcement of Protocol Buffers: Google’s Data Interchange Format. BetaNews has a good overview: Google releases its data encoding format to compete with XML.
Protocol Buffers are a flexible method for handling serialized data, generally for use with a database. Google has been using them internally for some [...]
I recently began a new programming project. I’m writing these programs for my own use, so I have complete control over language and methodology. I’ve been intrigued by the concept of literate programming ever since I read Donald Knuth’s book titled Literate Programming. I thought that this would be a great opportunity to give literate [...]
If you’ve never heard the expression, it refers to the practice of carrying programming habits to a new context, even when they are inappropriate. Some programmers who began with FORTRAN continued to write programs that strongly resembled FORTRAN after they had moved to other languages. They remained too set in their ways and didn’t adapt [...]
I was intrigued by this 14K JavaScript Super Mario Brothers demo. It requires no external image or sound files; everything it needs is included within the single 14K JavaScript file.
I’ve seen many Flash-based and Java-based games (and even written a few), but I’ve never seen a JavaScript-only action game. But a quick search shows [...]