Unity: The best game development platform?

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

One day I saw a webpage which had some game, and wanted me to download the Unity web player plugin for my browser. I thought "What crap is this? I'm not going to install it!". That was stupid, because Unity rocks as a game development tool!

Solving the alt-tab problem: My solution

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Lately there's been some discussion about "the alt tab problem" - In other words, when you have lots of windows open and when working on something you constantly jump between a few of them. Basically when doing this, it becomes tricky to recall which window you get when you alt ...

Git interactive rebase tips

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

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 ...

Git tips for SVN users

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

SVN is the version control system I've used the most, but lately I've been using Git more and more. I've also been using Git with projects that have an svn repository thanks to git's built in svn support. While working with it, I've ran into several typical cases that I've often ...

Unit testing JavaScript

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

I've recently been looking into some JavaScript unit testing frameworks. There are many alternatives, and while many of them seem good, very few of them actually matched my requirements: Must be able to run tests from the commend-line Tests should be relatively easy to write

How to install Palm Pre/webOS SDK on Windows 7 x64?

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Note: latest versions of webOS SDK should install without problems on Win 7 x64. However you are free to try this if you encounter problems with it. Palm has recently released the Palm Pre webOS SDK to the public. Installing it on Windows 7 64-bit is a bit problematic however. When attempting ...

Opera Mobile vs. iPhone Safari Mobile

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

Lately I've had the chance to use an iPhone 3G. As I've been considering purchasing the new 3G S, this has been a good opportunity to see if I like the thing, but what I think of the phone itself is a matter of another post - Today, let's look ...

Should I try Git if Svn/CVS/other works for me?

Monday, June 1st, 2009

I've been using Subversion for quite a while, and while it has some minor annoyances like complex merging, it never really bothered me. Then along comes Git, touting that it's easy and that you're stupid if you don't use it. The technical stuff people said about it were impressing, but not ...

Do you know a build tool?

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Do you have a repetitive task for example in a programming project? Chances are you could automate the steps with a build tool. For example, in one of my JavaScript projects I had to do the following: Put all project files to a zip file: Click each file and each dir, and ...

Dealing with configuration files in Subversion

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Here's a quick tip on how to deal with configuration files when working with Subversion. This probably applies to other VCS's too like CVS or Git. You probably have noticed this: you have a configuration file or such, and you need to keep it in SVN, but committing it would be ...