David Crane, game writer, co-founder of Atari, founder of Activision on creating his mega-hit from the 80s “Pitfall”. He explains all the immense hardware limitations and how some smart-ass tricks produced one of the earliest most enticing games.
Category: Development
The JavaScript Inferno
Now over a year old but still a very good presentation by Rob Conery on the madness of JS frameworks. It compares Knockout, Backbone, Angular and Ember with examples. WDCNZ 2013: The JavaScript Inferno from WDCNZ on Vimeo.
Happy birthday B.A.S.I.C.
[B]eginners [A]ll-purpose [S]ymbolic [I]nstruction [C]ode turns 50!