Hexagonal Tilemaps in SpriteKit
One of the new features added into iOS 10 and Xcode 8 is the SpriteKit Tilemap Editor. This editor provides a visual editing surface for SKTileMapNode which is described as ‘A node used to render […]
Draw a Sparkline with D3
Overview A Sparkline is a kind of line chart, usually drawn without axes, placed inline with text e.g. with tabular data. It is the simplest of visualisations and an ideal entry into learning D3. This […]
Deploy a React application to Heroku
Deploying the example React App to Heroku is performed using Git commands. After setting up on Heroku, you add Heroku as a remote in your git config. Git requires an SSH Key for secure communication […]
Exploring React, Less and Express
Learning React requires quite some knowledge of the modern JavaScript build pipeline (node.js especially), but it is worth exploring this gem of a technology. The usual approach to get skilled in React is to look […]
Setup MacBook for node.js Development
I’ve recently setup a new MacBook (1.2GHz, 512GB Flash Storage) for developing node.js based React and Express applications. I chose this MacBook for its portability and high resolution display. The following is a log of […]
