Programming

Monkey re-branded to Monkey X and comes with Desktop target

Monkey by Blitz Research Ltd has been re-branded to Monkey X. Monkey X focuses on multi-platform and multi-device game development. Monkey code translates to the language used by the platform. Javascript for HTML5 games for example and C#/XNA when targeting Xbox 360. Supported platforms are Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Flash, HTML5, iOS, Android, WP7/8, Xbox …

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Beta testers needed for an HTML2PDF conversion web service

I’m looking for people who would like to help me beta test my upcoming HTML to PDF conversion web service. The service focuses on programmers and designers who want to convert HTML to PDF’s. A common use case for such a service is the generation of invoices or reports. The web service uses a simple …

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Propel ORM for PHP

For the last couple of weeks I’ve have been working with Propel ORM for PHP and have really enjoyed using it. Coming from Perl I’m spoiled because it has DBIx::Class which is my ORM by choice and makes fetching data from your SQL database including relational data a breeze. Propel does a really nice job with this …

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Go concurrency patterns

Golang (or Go) has had my attention for a while now. So far I’ve only played around with it for a bit and recently I decided to use it in a school project in which concurrency is required. Luckily Go has some nice mechanisms in place to take care of this such as channels and …

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Maximus has been taken down

As of today Maximus, the BlitzMax Module Manager, has been taken down. I’ve blogged about this some time ago and today I’ve decided it was finally time to go through with it. The website now redirects to the GitHub organization that hosts the code for the client and the website. These will still be available …

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