I’m just realizing that this here blog just celebrated its first birthday — my first ‘hello world’ post here was May 1, 2012. This seems like a good opportunity to go looking through the archives and point to some older posts that newer...
I assume that like many developers, I first became interested in computers while playing computer games. Our family owned a Commodore 64 and I can only wonder how many hours I wasted collecting cave artifacts, dodging neighborhood obstacles on my paper route, and...
I’m currently making my way through Charles Petzold’s book The Annotated Turing. Petzold’s book, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware, is a must read for any software developer and is my favorite computer-related book. The Annotated Turing...
If you ever found JavaScript’s prototypal inheritance confusing, do yourself a favor and open this article, open a JavaScript console and code each example in the article. You will definitely come away with a better understanding of how prototypal inheritance...
Part 1 of this series can be read here. The project is a simplified morse code simulator that animates morse code being sent over a telegraph line. The complete source is available here and the running code can be seen here. In this post I’ll discuss the code that...
