PaintCode is a macOS app with a very specific audience: macOS and iOS developers, although other developers should take a look too. If you’re not a developer then this review may not offer you an insight into purchasing, however, if you’re just interested in knowing “how stuff works,†this is a pretty cool story. For this reason, I have aimed this review at a less knowledgeable audience, which should also serve to explain to hobbyist developers, like myself, what value this tool can bring.
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CCATP #523 – Bart Busschots on PBS 50 – Building a Web App on Video
This week Bart and I celebrate 50 episodes of Programming By Stealth. As Bart points out, we’ve been at this for two years now. I’m so happy he’s stuck with me on this and he says he’s got literally years of material yet to go. To commemorate this occasion, Bart got the crazy idea to […]
Continue readingCCATP #522 – Bart Busschots on PBS 49B of X – Object Revision & Improving Our Cellular Automata
As promised last week, Bart Busschots brings us the second half of Programming By Stealth 49. We start by going through a lot of revision on JavaScript objects. It’s really great to have all of this all in one place, and I got to ask a few questions that have been bugging me for a […]
Continue readingCCATP #521 – Bart Busschots on PBS 49A of X – Challenges from PBS 48
In this week’s episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart had intended to work on improving our Cellular Automata, but we ended up spending a lot more time on reviewing the challenges from last week that we stopped before getting to the new stuff. The good news is that we’re going to do the Cellular Automata […]
Continue readingCCATP #519 – Bart Busschots on PBS 48 of x – A Closer Look at ‘this’ and ‘static’
Bart decided to take a closer look at the JavaScript keywords ‘this’ and ‘static’ and boy am I glad he did. He said it was the hardest lesson he’s put together so far. It’s a convoluted topic but he gives great explanations as always. You can find his tutorial at pbs.bartificer.net/… mp3 download
Continue readingCCATP #517 – Bart Busschots on PBS 47 – ES6 Polymorphism
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart teaches us about inheritance (relationships between classes) and polymorphism. Now he said polymorphism is a concept that throws most first-level college students, but in an odd twist, I didn’t find it confusing at all! Plus, he lets us play with cows, ducks and turkeys in his example […]
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Tiny Tip – Vimmy & Oh Sh-t Git! By Caleb Fong
The review below is from Caleb Fong, aka @GeekoSupremo on Twitter. Caleb is a long time NosillaCastaway who is also following along with Programming By Stealth. His review is pretty geeky (goes well with his Twitter handle) so I thought it might help to explain a couple of terms he uses. He’ll use the term […]
Continue readingCCATP #516 – Bart Busschots on PBS 46 – ES6 Spread Operator, Arrow Functions & Classes
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart adds one more thing to the list of changes to arrays, and that’s the spread operator. Then we’ll learn how to get rid of the “const self = this” kludge for callbacks using the arrow functions. After that, we learn the basics of classes, a concept introduced […]
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Expressions, Patterns & Regex101 Make Writing Regular Expressions Easy and Fun
In my post about using regular expressions to find matches in a text file, I promised to tell you about the two applications I used to help me write my regex. By the way, Regex is what the cool kids call Regular Expressions. Let’s state the problem to be solved first. If you have a […]
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I Have Made Fire – I Coded in Perl with Regex!
We’re entering chapter 3 of my quest to provide chapter markers in the podcast. The original request was from Joe LaGreca but since I’ve started talking about it on the show, people have been coming out of the woodwork saying, “Yes, please!” I have been working my little fingers and brain to the bone on […]
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