Code Review (4): Simplifying the Google Maps API with SimpleGMaps.js
Over the last week and change I’ve been working on a side project dealing with one of my many non-coding related interests. Said project involved the use of a Google map and some markers to highlight...
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After 5 or 6 solid weeks of throwing almost all of my free time into coding, I’ve finally been distracted. First, there was Red Seas Under Red Skies, then The Republic of Thieves, and now Words of...
View ArticleCode Rewrite (5): Simplified Google Maps with attention to namespacing –...
As an amateur developer, there are often concepts that I didn’t consider (due to a lack of awareness) prior to writing code. Sometimes when researching I get lucky and stumble across a better way to do...
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I’m a little behind on post #6 because project #6 is a little larger in scope and is yet to be completed. This may end up happening more frequently as my projects become more detailed but I’ll try to...
View ArticleCode Review (6): Missile Defense. Another Canvas+Javascript game!
Oh, hello again. I know this one is late but I like to think it can be excused. Missile Defense (a knock-off / remix of the 1980 Atari classic Missile Command) is about 850 lines of code compared to my...
View ArticleCode Snippet (7): Lazy Loading Images With Javascript
Project number 7 is short and sweet to help me catch up on my intended schedule to feature one project and update per week. I’ve been falling behind lately as other endeavours have distracted me. And...
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No project or post this week. I had no inspiration or motivation. I’ll try to drum some up and see if I can think of something interesting to explore. Maybe XMLHttpRequests? Who knows!?
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Another week of inactivity. Me and the missus went home for the long weekend to have her baby shower and see some family and friends that we (I) haven’t seen since we moved here almost a year ago....
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Well, after a difficult pregnancy, challenging delivery, and a touch and go first week in the world, my fiancee and I are parents to a new baby boy: Isaac Matthew, born June 8th at 1:36pm in the...
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As you parents may know, there’s just not enough hours in the day to work a full-time job, be a (first time) parent to a newborn, continue an education, sleep, and still find those few necessary...
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