Being an early adaptor for Construct 2, it was about time to get a game built with it out of the door. I think I bought this in 2011 for 30€ or something like that. With an increasing interest in educational apps and new teaching and learning approaches I finally dug into Construct 2, building a complete, yet simple game. Without further ado: Color Duel can be found an Google Play Screen2 Screen4 Screen8 ...
Very recently I started to use the very nice Karma Test Runner. I really do recommend to check it out. However I wondered why tests ran very slow sometimes (>20s) and sometimes they where very fast (<1s). Quickly I realised the issue was having the Chrome tab in the background: The Chrome tab which was connected to Karma was one among others. I used the other tabs for web browsing and development, so the Karma tab wasn’t the active tab. This gives it a very low priority and running tests became extremely sluggish. ...
If you are using lots of command line tools (being a cool guy, you should!), you most probably have a need to organize all this stuff. If you are a web developer for example, you want to edit files, have a look on your webserver logs, monitor automated tests, handle your git repo and so on. There is a lot of stuff going on there! All these tools want to be tamed, to achieve your most productive work flow. Handling lots of separate terminal windows often is not the most efficient thing. That’s where tmux comes into play. ...
If you stumbled across my article series about how to build a webapp, you already know: I am working on an app to bring the awesome Pomodoro Technique to life on your machines. The Pomodoro Technique is a great, hassle free way to boost you productivity. The main goal is to focus on your tasks and to prevent interruptions. There is no app out there, which has everything you need to use the technique. So if you are interested in the Pomorodo Technique, checkout PomodoroEasy and sign up for pre-launch access. I am happy to get your feedback for this! ...
Sometimes we have to write quite long shell commands, right? And from time to time you have an error in there or want to change a command from the history to do something else, right? If you are a vim user you probably hate to navigate with the cursor keys to the position in the command you would like to change. So why not use vim (commands) for that? Here are two ways to do it: ...