The recent explosion of JavaScript frameworks and libraries in web development has been undeniable. I can think of 10 libraries right off the top of my head and I have seen a site that lists 34 libraries just for visualizations. I am happy to see such a diverse ecosystem of easy to use tools sprouting up in the web development community. Certainly some of them make development a heck of ...
I caught a wonderful article on Dzone today by Jonas Gauffin titled "How Resharper rocks my average work day". In this article Jonas talks about a tool he uses regularly called "Resharper" that makes common tasks a bit more automated when coding in C#. This article reminded me that we are continuously developing better and better tools that help us write code. But is there a point where we are ...
When we think of the comma character we often think of it as a separator. It separates values in an CSV file, it separates items in lists, it may separate index values in multidimensional arrays (in other languages) and more. But in C++ an obscure way of using them was as an operator. The reason it never made it big as an operator and into the typical programming psyche is ...
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a bit of a stickler when it comes to traditional software design principles. I do believe they lead to outstanding software products when they are followed correctly. This isn't to say I am not flexible when it comes to new ideas to improve traditional rules. When I saw the introduction of PHP traits in 5.4.0 I was eager to learn all about ...
One common obstacle facing many first-time PHP game developers is the concept of how time passes in their web-based game. With desktop / mobile applications, time can continuously run via a timer mechanism because it is always running on the device. PHP works in the disconnected world of the Internet. When a request comes into the server, it fires off the request to the PHP program for parsing, parses ...
First off I want to say that there are multiple ways of doing something like this. Below is two ways (and I mention a third) to dynamically populate one drop down using the selection of another drop down (aka chaining drop-downs). One way we will see uses a pure JavaScript implementation and another is using a combination of JavaScript and a server-side language (here we are demonstrating PHP). After we ...
