Lately I’ve been making steady progress in porting over Rx APIs over to Dart with stream_ext, and with the release of version 0.2.0 a few more Rx methods have been added to the existing set of buffer, combineLatest, delay, max, merge, min, scan, sum, throttle, window and zip. average StreamExt.average has the following signature: …
Using StageXL and Dart, I built another mini-game themed around our MMORPG Here Be Monsters this week. The game follows a pack of Taotie monsters, which is a type of spirit monster created when a ghost with immense hunger possesses a Chinese pot. Taotie originates from Chinese folklores and is one of many monsters that …
Run Taotie Run – new Here Be Monsteres mini-game made with Dart and StageXL Read More »
Over the last week or so, I’ve been looking at and playing around with the Streams API in Dart, which has been (in part at least) based on the Rx API, and it’s easy to see the parallels between the two sets of APIs and you can find most of the core Rx APIs on …
In F#, you can’t overload a let-bound function, and whilst it’s a hindrance sometimes you can generally work around it easily enough since you can still overload members of a class. All you need to do is to wrap the module and constituent functions into a class and overload the class members instead. Multi-Arity Functions …
First of all I’d like to offer my sincere apologies to those who have asked me to update my benchmark numbers following the release of Json.NET 5.0.6, it took me a long time to clear some of my backlogs and only just got around to it, sorry for the waiting! The good news is that, …
In Dart there is an interesting language feature called ‘Factory Constructors’, which effectively allows you to override the default behaviour when using the new keyword – instead of always creating a new instance the factory constructor is merely required to return an instance of the class, the difference is important. Factory constructors allow you to …
Dart – implementing the Singleton pattern with factory constructors Read More »
Hot on the heels of making my first game with Dart and StageXL at the London GameCraft 2013, I decided to strike whilst the iron’s hot and make a mini-game featuring characters from our MMORPG Here Be Monsters. The result, is a whack-a-mole style game where the antagonist is ‘Meng the Terrible’ from the …
Whack A Meng – new Here Be Monsters mini-game made with Dart and StageXL Read More »
After an 11-hour marathon session at the London GameCraft event yesterday, I am very proud to say that my team’s entry – Agents of P.R.I.S.M was awarded with the MOST INTERESTING INTERPRETATION OF THE THEME award for the theme of the day – Impact of P.R.I.S.M. It was a great day out for the guys …
Problem The primes 3, 7, 109, and 673, are quite remarkable. By taking any two primes and concatenating them in any order the result will always be prime. For example, taking 7 and 109, both 7109 and 1097 are prime. The sum of these four primes, 792, represents the lowest sum for a set of …
We recently found out about an interesting, undocumented behaviour of Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service – that health check pings are performed by each and every instance running your ELB service at every health check interval. Intro to ELB But first, let me fill in some background information for readers who are not familiar …
Amazon ELB – Some caveats around health check pings Read More »
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