KrolTech

Learned about $http with Angular when calling external resources (like JSON) – need to test on TI.com implementation.

Continued developing business plan for “Secret” website (created survey questions, etc.).  Researched payment processing for site and discovered Amazon Payments offers better rates than Paypal once you get into the higher sales volume (greater than 10k).

Completed Pluralsight course on N-Tier Development in C#.

Learned to use the ?? operator when checking for null.  Use when you want something to = something else only when something else is not null:

var myvar = something_else ?? “default_value”;

myvar will be set to something_else only if something_else is not null, otherwise it will be “default_value” instead.

Created and launched TumblingInferno.com. Was an awesome rapid prototype going from start to launch in 2 days. Implemented a lot of LINQ which was great experience as well as reacquainting myself with Entity Framework. Super excited that I was finally able to finish and launch something! Attempted to play with Angular.js, and was somewhat successful. Although didnt really work for the project the way I was hoping – and help online is scarce currently. [Read More]

Did a lot of cleanup and additional (new) functionality for Fill the Part.

Created a really need widget that loads activity stream every 25secs, loading newest at top with a sliding stack animation, while the bottom one slides up (squished).

Continued to play with jsRender.

Fresh on the heels of my failure with Knockout, I continued my OOP and data-bound JavaScript development. I also discovered Angular.js this week (by Google). This looks like it’s a much cleaner and easier (read: less clunky) way of doing what Knockout.js does. It also looks like this might be pretty easy for me to implement into my existing project. Also, from a staying power perspective, it’s probably safe to assume since Google is officially backing (and created) that it will be around for a while. [Read More]

This week was all about Knockout.js and my seemingly total lack of understanding of javascript and jquery! After struggling with Knockout (rather, struggling to implement it into an existing project that might be a little too complex for my first attempt with KO) I decided to back burner it for a while. However I did learn a lot more about dealing with data, json, and oop in general with javascript and jquery. [Read More]

VACATION!! Didn’t learn much, but did read up some more on XNA programming in general.  Rode a wave runner (jet ski) for the first time and that was exhilarating! (Although it was extremely tiring, and very hard work!)  Rode lots of rides, ate like shit, and had a great time!

This week and the past have been spent a lot with XNA 4.0 (Xbox Live Indie game development). I did a little bit of work on a project and started looking for good sprite assets for a test game. My idea is to create a DayZ type game but overhead 2D using Zombies Ate My Neighbors! style graphics (in fact the actual sprite sheets from that game itself). Found some great resources for the sprites. [Read More]

Welcome to my new blog! This blog is just going to be a weekly/daily journal of sorts, logging all of my discoveries and observations on the Internet and related to development in general. Of course, expect some anecdotes on gaming and life as well! Integrated a Twitter feed into the UGM website. Used a tiny bit of jQuery animate to slide the feed bar out from the left side of the screen. [Read More]

First let me get this out of the way to perhaps add some credibility to this review: I am a hardcore gamer and have nearly 30 titles in my Xbox 360 library. I also have a PS3 (although my primary gaming console is the 360). Ive been gaming since I can remember (got a NES for Christmas, had an Atari 2600 etc). With that being said, let me also mention that I have a 4 year old son who is absolutely addicted to Angry Birds on my iPhone, although he’s not really a fan of using a controller – just yet. [Read More]