Very little in the way of blog updates the past few months, been up to my ears in a few things. Work is finally starting to slow down, though, so I’m hoping I’ll have more time to post.
In the meantime, here is a brief rundown of stuff I’ve been playing with (and will hopefully soon be blogging about):
1) Living without an IDE – a lot of folks seem to have a great time coding all kinds of stuff using TextMate, without the clunkiness of an eclipse-based IDE. I’m looking to explore this option, and I’ll let you know what I think. This ties into the next few points, because my latest interests live outside of any IDEs -
2) Node.JS – if you haven’t heard about Node.JS you’ve been living under a rock. Node is server-side javascript, bringing that lovely (ech!) JS syntax to the server. Why is this cool? Because like AS3, it relies on the Observer Pattern to handle asynchronous requests. Instead of spawning a new thread and blocking, like most other server-side languages, Node uses an Event system with async callbacks to juggle lots and lots of stuff at the same time. Plus, it’s JavaScript. Say what you will about it, it’s pretty slick to be able to handle scripting, web server and front-end coding in the same language.
3) Using JavaScript with Socket.IO to replace Python as my go-to Arduino interface language. If I’m going to learn one stack inside and out, it seems like JavaScript is the stack to learn. If I’m doing everything else in JS, why keep Python around when I can use Node just as easily?
4) Back in the Flash world, a big project I’ve been working on for a few months is approaching launch-readiness. It’s my first Flex 4 application, and I have some thoughts about that. Generally speaking, I haven’t really enjoyed it – but I’m not sure yet if that’s my fault or Flex’s. Much to think about.
5) Finally, this summer I’ll be rolling out my first iOS application. Stay tuned for rants and thoughts on the subject.
As always, the best way to keep up with me is on Twitter, where you can always find me quickly as @mykola. Drop me a line!
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