In the tradition of end of the year posts, here’s some “best of” statistics from this blog for the year 2009. Next week we will return to our regular programming.
Vim / Opera tip: Open highlighted text in Vim
Here’s a quick tip for Opera and Vim users: How to add a menu item which allows you to quickly open highlighted text on a web page in Vim. This trick can be applied with any other application too, like <insert your favorite editor>
Rewriting TankWar: Assessing the damage
I have decided to rewrite TankWar, and I’ll be writing a bunch of blog posts about the process. If you ever wanted to know how to write a scorched earth/worms-like game using just JavaScript, now is your chance to learn ;) This is the first one: Assessing the damage. In other words, take a look at the old code and …
Git interactive rebase tips
Interactive rebase is one of my most used Git commands. It’ll let me slice and dice commits in various useful ways. Here’s a few tips for you to unleash the true potential of rebase :) Basics: editing, combining, reordering and removing commits Breaking a commit into two Taking a part of a commit and bringing it to HEAD Bonus! How …
TankWar has online mode again: This time on Opera Unite
You may recall an earlier post about TankWar, my 100% JavaScript cannons-game. Back when I wrote it, I included online play, but the server went down with a hard disk failure. Now, I have rewritten the online mode – this time that part is also all JavaScript – continue reading to find out what makes it tick.