Sprint Vector(SV), developed by Survio, was an impulse purchase after hearing lots of rave reviews about it. I had to go through a lot of trouble just to get it from the US store. Luckily it was all worth it. From the same studio that brought us Raw Data, Sprint Vector is a completely different genre from their debut title. To describe it would be like a combination of Mario Kart and it’s zany obstacle race course with the gameplay of Mirror’s Edge powered by the Move controllers.
The creator of Ruby on Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, or DHH as he is known in the Rails community, has started a new screencast series on his insights working on Basecamp with RoR. In his videos, he talks about his approaches using callbacks and globals for his projects. Be sure to subscribe to his channel to follow his updates.
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Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Released back in May 2017, Farpoint, developed by Impulse Gear was one of the first VR first person shooter game on the PS VR to fully utilise the PS VR Aim Controller. While the initial reviews were mixed but one thing was clear, those who used the VR Aim Controller was totally blown by the experience. Read More
We often spend a lot of time planning for the perfect deployment process and rolling back strategies, but sometimes we forget that despite the best plans that we have, we still need to address urgent post deployment fixes when rolling back is not an option. Hotfixes may not always be due to critical bug fixes, they can also arise from last minute client commitments or regulatory requirements. I have observed several instances where we had to push back on these changes to the next release cycle resulting in unhappy clients simply because we do not have a process in place to handle hotfixes. You may ask then, why don’t we keep a Release Branch or Hotfix Branch in our development practice? The answer is not always that simple and obvious depending on your Agile practices and build process.
This morning iPrice released their white paper on the state of eCommerce in Southeast Asia based on the data that they’ve collected from their partners around the region. The statistics provided by these reports gives us some pretty interesting insights into consumer behaviour in the past year. Among some of the interesting facts presented by the iPrice team was that despite Vietnam having the highest conversion rate among Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines their payment method of choice was actually Cash on Delivery. This goes to show that sometimes eCommerce platforms are most successful when you cater to the needs of the consumer and the solution can be just as low tech.
I have been picking up React recently and came across a number of useful resources for new comers to the ReactJS/Redux world. In no particular order, here are some of the tutorials and guides which I find useful to get started. Most of screencasts here are free and self contained but there are also advanced tutorials which requires a paid subscription. Do go through each of the official documentation first to get a good idea of the concept and inspiration behind each of these great Javascript technologies. Looking forward to start my own series of React/Redux tutorial posts soon !
React
ReactJS Official
Ken Wheeler’s Learning React.js: Getting Started and Concepts
Redux
Redux.js Official
Redux Screencast
Getting Started with Redux by Dan Abramov Co Author of Redux
React Screencast
Start Learning React by Joe Maddalone
React in 7minutes by John Lindquist
Lodash Docs and Useful Cheatsheets
Lodash Official Docs
Lodash Cheat Sheet