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Mar 8, 2015
Creating and importing a map for Phaser using Tiled
Phaser is an HTML5 game engine that comes with a lot of cool features that I’ve yet to figure out. Here, I’ll give you a walk through of designing a map utilizing a tool called Tiled and then bringing that map into your phaser project. Create the Phaser Game object I first set up some basic project scaffolding within phaser, such as setting up the phaser game object, which will actually...
Mar 7, 2015
16 Ways to Become a Better Developer
1. Find some Mentors Make a list of developers that you admire and study them. Learn things from them such as how they debug problems and what tools and technologies they’re using. Follow these developers on Twitter and subscribe to their blog’s RSS feed. Whenever they post something new, take the time to actually read and comprehend what they’re trying to convey. 2. Become a Mentor While or after learning something new,...
Mar 5, 2015
Common List of Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
Learning keyboard shortcuts and getting familiar with your tools are great ways to be more productive. Keyboard shortcuts not only minimize the amount of time that you’re navigating your cursor, but also become second nature to getting around your OS, documents, and applications. Here are a few shortcuts that I use on a regular basis. I’ll keep this post updated as I find myself using shortcuts that aren’t documented here. Leave...
Mar 4, 2015
Performing AJAX Http Requests with AngularJS
One of the great things about AngularJS is all of the great services that it comes with out of the box. One of these happens to be the $http service, which allows you to easily create http requests from any controller just by injecting it to the controllers constructor. I’ll quickly demonstrate how to use the $http service in order to create ajax requests from you angular controller. First, add...
Mar 4, 2015
Beginner's guide to setting up an AngularJS project
AngularJS is a great framework, which I’ve had the opportunity to use on many projects. Having two way data binding between your UI and your javascript objects is a really great feature that I find myself missing when I’m not using Angular. Here, I’ll attempt to go through the steps required to get up and running with your first Angular application. Note: The following article targets angular 1.x. This example...